Los Angeles herald., 1910-05-22
Los ANGELES Gets
ONE MORE RECORD
Thirty-TWo New Automobile Cars
Bring 1863 Bucks to City
in Record Time
EIGHT DAYS FROM MICHIGAN
Charles s. Howard, Local Agent,
Declares He Needs More
of Them Already

The history of Los Angeles is bright
with big things it has done. What
ever the city has undertaken, its
spirit of enterprise has achieved Get
there" ideas have made the city the
cynosure of the eyes of a nation, and,
in fact, of the world.
Bank ClearanceS and saving deposits,
erection of buildings, purchases of
large blocks of real estate keep piling
up, so that the financial world and
business departments of firms and
corporations over the country are
amazed at what Los Angeles is doing.
1t is but a short time since that Los
Angeles surprised the world with an
aviation meet which drew hundreds of
thousands to the field where the great
est bird-soaring inventions of man at
tracted their attention.
Scarcely had the aviation meet
passed before another innovation was
introduced. This was the construction
of the now famous Motordrome, upon
whose circular surface worlds records
for automobile racing were made.
But Los Angeles had other records
to make, and this time it required the
nervy plucky, brainy head of the
Howard Automobile company to turn
the trick. Charles S. Howard, presi-
dent of the company, is responsible
for again breaking worlds record
with his favorite Buick cars. Assisted
by the Santa F'e company he made a
worlds record for freight transporta-
tion across the continent.
The occasion was the arrival last
Wednesday of a full trainload OF
Buick cars of all models, which were
transported across the continent by
the Santa Fe railroad in thirty-two
big, new automobile and furniture
cars, their first trip to any part of the
country To the railway men and
others the train was sight to delight
the eye, because every car was of uni
form size, and the time made in the
moving of the train stands today a
worlds record.
Thirty-1two cars loaded with Bucks
left the factory at Flint, Mich, May
10 at APO in the afternoon, consigned
to the Howard Automobile company.
Without a hitch of any kind the
Buick special arrived in Los Angeles
thirty-three hours ahead of the fast
schedule prepared for it by the train
dispatchers and general superinten-
dents of the Santa Fe, and the time
was a little less than eight days from
initial point to destination, and almost
as good time as the ordinary train
which does not bear the legend, Linn
ited.'
In those thirty-two cars were 1863
Buick automobiles of every model
turned out by the factory. The freight
bill alone was something more than
$10S00. The valuation of the contents
of the freight cars was close to
quarter of a million dollars, the largest
single shipment of automobiles ever
made to any individual firm in the
world. 1t only illustrated again what
the Buick people can do.
1t is not to be marveled at, either,
because there is a reason for Bucks
being popular. In all of the races in
which the Bucks have participated
and they are in everything they can
enter-they have won 81 per cent.
Look about you where you may.
and everywhere you will see the
Bucks" says Mr.. Howard. Business
men, bankers, merchants-all like the
Buicks-hecause they are dependable,
reliable, speedy and powerful, and the
Bucks just love hills and hard work.
They are so constructed that no other
car of any make, regardless of the
price, can beat them on the road-cer-
tainly not in climbing hills or in road
work of the severest kind"
Mr. Howard stated to the newspaper
men that although the shipment OF
Bucks just received was rather an
extraordinary thing he would have to
duplicate the order because these are
almost all sold already.
An automobile agent at Padua, Italy,
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