Los Angeles herald., 1909-11-14
LEXINGTON LATEST
HANDSOME AUTO
A MAGNIFICENT PRODUCTION
OF SKILL AND SCIENCE
Machine Will Attract Attention Wher-
ever Seen, Owing to Its Beauty of
Design and General Perfec-
ton of Details

One of the new cars that is to be
seen in Automobile row is the Lex
ington, which has been brought to the
coast by the Burkhard-Crippen Auto
mobile company. The Lexington is
new car in the field, but that it is en-
titled to high consideration was amply
demonstrated in the last Glidden tour.
In this contest, the most severe of all
Glidden tours, with its rough road con-
ditions and the severe technical exam
ination after the close of the run, the
Lexington made one Of the cleanest
scores, there being but two absolutely
clean states. Up almost to the last
day the Lexington successfully COM
bated every difficulty, and when trou-
BILE came il was of such a trivial ma
ture that the penalization was but a
few points only. Seldom in the history
of motor car manufacturing has 50
good a showing been made under the
circumstances. The Lexington people
have ample reasons for their good
work. Says A. w. Crippen:
In this new 1910 car we have not
brought together an accumulation of
its component parts, purchased on the
open market at the lowest cost. On
the other hand from motor, transmits
sion, axles, frame, propeller shaft and
body, to springs. finishing upholstering
best that money can buy. The LeXing-
ton management is composed of men
with intimate knowledge of what is
desired by the owner in the construc-
ton of a car, and they have coupled
these ideas of construction with an
earnest consideration for the owner.
We are not too original but we think
that we have successfully endeavored
to design a car embodying the best
,f afa hot a &c ~ hot
does not need an expert chauffeur to
keep 1T tuned up, and which the owner
himself can drive with pleasure and
satisfaction.
THE car is to be made in three types,
but probably the most popular will be
the forty-forty-five horse power model.
The four cylinders are to be individual
and vertical, 4A-inch bore by 5-inch
stroke. The transmission is the selec-
tive type, three speeds ahead and re-
verse. This transmission is especially
heavy, being designed for a sixty-horse
power car, rather than a forty-forty-
five Shafts and gears are large and
are made of the finest steel; driving
shaft on top, countershaft underneath.
cut from the solid shaft in the four
key way type, each running on double
Hess Bright bearings.
1.-THE wheel base is 120 inches and
Schwarz patent interlocking wide fiat
wheel spokes are used, ten spokes in
front and twelve spokes in rear, each
rear spoke being bossed and bolted to
the outer edge of the brake drum; both
front and rear wheels carried on ad-
Unstable double Timken roller bearings.
1.-THE propeller shaft is of special
steel one and one-half inches in diam
eter. on each end of which is provided
oil oh
load the transmission end is one and
a half inches higher than axle end;
with load horizontal, thereby making
a straight drive from the crank shaft
Of the motor, through the transmission
and propeller shaft to the dinerential
in the rear axle. reducing friction and
strain to a minimum"
This handsome car, which is very
similar to the lines of the Packard, is
so large and roomy that the greatest
comfort is to be had in her surround
ings and is one of the handsomest con-
structed automobiles that has ever been
brought to the coast Every detail
little detail-had been looked after by
the makers. The seats in the tonneau
are removable and are of new design,
and when removed even the little flaps
are there to cover the slots into which
the seats hold. 1t is beautifully finished
in every particular. Circassian oak is
the finish, very rich, handsome
grained wood, polished to the highest
state of perfection even to the interior
of the hood The transmission wires
are all finished with ball bearing ends,
Immediately claspable, and are so much
of an Improvement over the old style
that this little item is most noticeable.
The Lexington seven-passenger tour
ing car sells too for the very moderate
price of $4,000, factory equipped, and is
one of the biggest values in automobiles
ever seen in this part of the country
and the car is on exhibition at the
salesrooms OF Burkhard & Crippen, at
the corner of Main and Twelfth streets