The Clarksburg telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1874-1926, 1911-04-06
VA TIONAL BREAKS
RECORD or. WORLD
With Wilcox Driver at Jack
sonyille Beach in
Florida.

$3.50
I. L Queen. of this city, agent for
the Wilcox automobile, is in receip,
Of the following telegraphic message
from the National Vehicle Company
of Indianapolis. Ind;
Indianapolis, Ind, Mar. 81, II.
L. L. Queen.
AT Jacksonville Beach Thursday
the National 40, Wilcox, broke the
worlds stralghtaway stock chassis
mile record, time forty and thirty
two-hundredths seconds. 1t also won
the five mile straightaway beach
championship in the four-ffty class
stock chassis in three minutes and
hfty-six and elght-tenths seconds. In
the ten mile class the National 80
was second and third.
No sane person ever desires to
drive a car in every day use at the
rate of 10 miles an hour. Then
why should the manufacturers 90 to
such trouble to demonstrate to the
public the ability o: their car TO go
500 miles at this speed? or what
real good is 1t to the automobile
purchasers that half a second be
clipped off a worlds record rs
the game worth the candle?" 1T
Is" says George NJ. Dickson, general
manager of the National factory,
"40's" in the Pablo-Atlantic Beach
races and the big 5OO-mile race on
the indianapolis speedway.
Although the element OF sport
enters largely. into every contest,
there is ia serious side to motor
racing that is more important. 1t
is now generally acknowledged that
racing is an efficient guide TO the
motor car designer. enabling him to
correct faults that would escape for
years in ordinary use. and better
still, every opportunity for the pub
lie to Judge for themselves as to the
desirabillty OF car. 1t is for this
reason and in this way that the
competing maker is repaid.
While the general run OF auto
mobile owpers may never go in for
any thing more strenuous than al
sociability run, the high powered,
speedy cars are the ones that make
The most potent appeal to those who
appreciate the best in motor car
construction. Although you may
never race, it's comfort to know
that you'll never be obliged to eat
anybody's dust, and that you have
speed enough, should you desire to
pass anything on the road. 1t is
pleasant 70 know that under the
hood is big, powerful. reliable
motor, amply sufficient to carry you
trlGmphantly to the crest of any
hill or pillow through mud, sand or
gravel regardless OF adverse condi-
tions and had roads or bad weather
may impose.
Victories in long races, those ter
rifle grinds of 100, 200 and 800
miles, become, when viewing them
in this light, doubly significant to
the prospective purchaser. "A car
that cleans up on speedway or road
races, If it is a strictly stock car is
the logical one TO buy. Its reserve
strength has been tested out. ANY
flaw in workmanship, defective ma
teria.s, or faulty design will be
shown mercilessly. While one win
ming may be accidental, the great
law Of averages that has been proved
so true in business, holds in motor
racing. Victory after victory. by
strictly stock cars, in the hands OF
both experienced race drivers and
amatenr pilots, both factory turned
cars and roadsters sold to persons
whom ownership inoculated with the
speed bug, so far TO guide the au-
tomobile buyer in his choice.
Besides this actual mechanical
rsason that the buyer should get
the car that has made good hand
somely in race competition, there is
the more subtle, yet no less real,
feeling OF power and prestige. II
makes a man bigger to have the
force of forty horses at his finger
tips, 1t gives MIN feeling OF con-
fidence to drive car that he
knows can do 20 miles an hour with
surety, and with greater ease and
less exertion TO himself than is re-
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