Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1900-1911, 1910-01-26
CORBIN SHOWS
GREAT SPEED
REGISTERS EIGHTY-SIx MILES
IN SHORT TEST
Combination of seeley Ignition sys-
tenn, Merry Driver and Good
Car Prove Wonders
on Road
BY d. w. sEMPLE

BY ID. w. SEmELE
Eighty-six miles per hour for two
and a half straight miles is travelling
some with an automobile, for sure.
That is precisely what the little thirty
horse power Seeley Ignition System
Corbin did yesterday with AL Living
ston, the crack driver, at her wheel,
accompanied by The Herald automo-
bile man.
This is the little Corbin which has
made fame for itself frequently in this
section in the past and also on the
eastern tracks, where it participated
in many of the leading racing events
on the great tracks of the speedWays.
The best that the car could be made
to do there, in the great CODE race,
was seventy miles per hour.
After Livingston took hold OF the
car for the Corbin people of this city,
a line of apparently hard luck fol-
lowed the automobile from various
causes, and when it appeared on Ascot
park track at the last meet 1T gave
Barney Oldfeld sample of what he
might expect from II Il 1t was ever
made right.
With confidence in its going capacity
the Seeley High Frequency company
bought the car, and bought 1t for a
song. Then Livingston patiently went
at the machine while the Seeley PEG
pie loaded her with their lightning
and from that moment the car mas
proved a wonder. New racing car
buretors were procured, so that now
the little machine cannot be brought
below Ninth street in the city, for,
with the throttle shut off completely
it's speed cannot be brought below
twenty miles an hour, while with the
big racing carburetor it would not tail
below the thirty-mile speed, with the
throttle closed.
Yesterday, to test the car again, The
Herald man boarded the machine with
Livingston and with speedometer
tested-a Warner at that-set out Tor
a spot where the test could properly pc
made. Coming to this place selected
for the trial the car was sent away on
it's terrific speed-making, and for two
and a, half miles, with two turns and a
slight UP grade, as steady as a sew
ing machine run by electricity, the ut
tie wonder turned the distance off at
the rate of eighty-six miles an hour
without wavering trifle.
Singing as merrily and sweetly as a
purring cat the Corbin was turned
about and made to reverse the route,
and did it again as easily as though
running at a four-mile gait on the
srnoothest asphaltum walk of Los An
geles. Beautifully this car is working
now, and there is nothing on the Pa
cific coast that can hold the road or
track with it to date. 1t is a wonder
f,1l thing to see this little machine, with
but thirty horse power, travelling at
the gait to which it is now tuned, and
Livingston is to take on the new car
buretor today when it is expected that
ninety-two miles will be the record
under that pressure.
No man in the world is so proud of
his charge as this nervy driver, who
has become the star of the profess
sion, and he is not loath to declare
that he loves his machine better than
anything he possesses in the world.
Certainly the Corbin people have every
reason to feel proud of that piece of
machinery, and the Corbins are all
alike, while the Seeley people found
a wonder, just as Oldfield picked up
the Barracq for a trifle.