Omaha daily bee., 1910-04-10

Low speed contest, rather than high speed
races, are coming into vogue wherever ef-
forts are being made to demonstrate the
practical efficiency for the ordinary user
of the modern automobile.
The capacity of several cars of different
makes to be operated on low speed was
tested in a slow speed contest during the
Toledo Automobile show, in which the
Rambler Fifty-five won over fourteen
other entries. There was a Judge in each
car, and the driver was not allowed to
slip the clutch or use the brakes, simply
using the throttle on the car,
The Rambler people claim an advantage
because the offset crank, shaft enables the
operator to throttle down on high gear no
faster than a man usually walks.
The advantage of low speed in the
crowded traffic of city streets, when it can
be accomplished without the bother of fire.
quent gear changing, is such an important
one that all standard cars, like the Ram
bier, will quite likely in the future be de-
signed with this advantage in view.
". L. Huffman Auto company will have
a bunch at the Interstate here this week
which will attract a great deal of attention.
At Los Angeles last week the velie go
roadster. carrying q passenger, made ten
miles at an average score Of SO seconds per
mile.
A party of tourists enroute to the coast
stopped over in Omaha Saturday long
enough TO buy an Auburn The party left
yesterday in the machine for California.
Mr.. F.. E. Edwards of the. Sweet-Edwards
Auto company left last night for his ranch
in Wyoming, where he will spend several
weeks.
The Midwest Auto company received the
following message:
Cole 80 won first yesterday in ten-mlle
stock car race at Los Angeles, against Blu.
lex, Ford, Firestone and Warren-D Detroit,
Time; s:O3, lowering worlds record 46 sec
onds.
Midwest will move into room occupied
by Omaha Automobile company. at 2C
South Nineteenth street, Monday. They
will repaint and remodel into first class
salesroom.
ruflneT evidence lndL the electric Is no
confined to city use alone is found in ar
order just received by the Baker Motor
Vehicle company of Cleveland, o., from
Sir Edward Clouston, president of the Banl
Of Montreal, Montreal, Canada, In placing
his order Sir Edward specified that the ca
was to be used between Montreal and hi!
country place, thirty miles from the city
He instructed several expert mechanical
anufpnar-e IN fuCnaCr and test the diffRFan
makes Of e~lectrics thoroughly, and place.
his order for d Baker Electric upon thei
recommendation that the car could be de
pended upon TO negotiate the trip sstlsfac
torily. Nothing could better Illustrate tn.
great advance that has been made in cleo
trio motor car construction, since but
few years ago no electric manufacture
would give such service.
Guy Smith said: A seventy-five-mile rul
: without a shift from the high gear for tn.
varying grades was recently made with al
air-cooled franklin motor car. Starting
from Main street in Kansas City, the ca
was run. with four passengers, 20 Indc
, pendence, Lees Summit. Hickman's Mil
and swope Park before the return wa.
? made to the starting poiut,
Z Three FrankIins take the three frs
/, places in the first sOciability run for auto
\ mobilists Of this season. The event va
: conducted by the Automobile club % Kan
sas City. 100 motorists Of that organlzatlo.
4 making a trip from the city to Marsh
e Grove, near Bolton.
e The time schedule for the trip which.
o one Of about forty miles, had been secretl
Z fixed at $4,000. This time was exactly dur
4 Heated by L. W. Lease, In winning fins
D prize with his FrankGlh touring car
One OF the Frankilns which took secon
e and third places vas that % l. a. li27eT'
{ son. in whose party were Mrs. W. c. Rer
d frow. wife Of a former governor u Okla
d bona. with her daughter, Mrs. Rlber sol
e and Mr.. and Mrs. George A. Bond. tn
4 third Franklin was a press car. Ele zen {
the cars entered were officially checked
n at the finish.
At the request OF $ N. Butler, ehairma
Of the contest board OF the American Aut'
m 0 bile association the complete log u II