The San Francisco call., 1910-02-27
Wnton Car Takes Honors: Auto Used During Strike
Everitts Coming: Mitchell Ranger Starts Motorcycing
MITCHELL RANGER
STARTS ONCE AGAIN
Will Now Take Up the Work of
the Pathfinder FOR tEesNext
Glidden Tour

With Frank X. zirbies. America s
most famous road driver, at its wheel
the Mitchell Ranger, which recently
acted as pace maker in the national
highway tour from New York to At
lanta, after having a few months be-
fore successfully carried war dis
patches from Major Leonard Wood, U.
S. A, in New York, to Major General
Weston, L. S. A, in command at the
Presidio, San Francisco, in the first
continental war message mission start
ed from Cincinnati at noon Wednes-
day to cover the 1910 route of the Gid
den tour, which begins here about the
middle of June and winds UP about
three weeks later in Chicago.
The early start of the pathfnding 8
automombile over the Glidden tour
route that traverses 10 states, nearly
half of them below the Mason and
Dixon line and much of the itinerary
over territory never before invaded
by the big annual touring cSyalcade,
is in response to a demand from motor
lists as we'll as the big manufacturers
for data on the course selected. That
the sixth Glidden- tour will be a su-
preme test for the mechanism of the
best cars made in the country is the
verdict of the technical automobile
men who laid out the touring route.
That the car will go from the Queen
City to Chicago via Texas is the firm
conviction Of the designer of the Mitch
ell Ranger. The widest variety of road
conditions is expected in Kentucky,
Tennessee, Arkansas, Texas, Okla
homa, Kansas, Missouri, Iowa and Illf-
nois Advance information gathered
bV Driver ZirhiaS c
snow and deep mud may be encoun-
tered at intervals along the entire
route, with possibility of enforced
detours in the Mississippi river valley
on account of inundations.
Whatever the obstacles encoun-
tered, says Zrbles, the Mitchell
Ranger will surmount them
The detailed specifications of the lit
tie EMF car recently seen in Chi
So cago are most IN
sPes,iisatiens s. tsfsstl tSey are The e moe
tor, four cylinders
and half inch bore by one and half
inch stroke. Horse power estimated at
about one-half. Cooling, water. ther-
mo syphon. Ignition current supplied
by batteries, single unit, nonvibrating
ton, splash system. Carburetor, flood
feed type. Clutch, cone, metal to metal.
Transmission, sliding gear, progressive
type, two speeds, forward and reverse.
Drive. direct shaft drive in housing to
bevel gear on rear axle, one universal
joint. Axles, live rear axle running on
anti-friction bearings, front axle tubu-
lar. Brakes, direct on wheels internal
expanding metal rings. Steering gear,
worm and gear type. Frame. angle
steel. Wheels. wood artillery type.
Wheel base, a inches. Tread, "a
inches. Tires. Is by III inches.
Springs, semielliptic front, rear full
elliptic. Control spark and throttle
levers on steering wheel; clutch oper-
ated by a foot pedal; brake operated by
a foot pedal; speed changed by hand
lever. Finish of body. pure white with
blue stripping. Weight, 156 pounds.
Price, value $1,000.
Word comes from abroad that there
may be an international road race in
France, even though the Automobile
Club of France abandoned it's proposed
grand priX event because it did not Sc
cure the number of entries it had stip-
ulated must be made. The repoyt is
that the officials of the Automobile
Club of France has given permission
to a syndicate of sportsmen to organize
an international event. 1t is said the
contest will be restricted to machines
of not more than 80 horsepower, and
that $4,000 will be offered in prizes
over the Dieppe circuit.