New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1911-02-26
AUTO NEWS OF THE DAY
Little Bits Of News Which In
+nrost the Trade

z Roger Stsarns. Of Los Angeles, has
climbed the Mt. Washington incline, Los
Angeles. in q veiie touring car. the grade
Being 57ls per cent actual. Starting up
with as good 2 run as he could obtain,
lrr. stearns shot the car I'D the hill and
reached the summit in fast time. The
question now was. How would he get
down? Few automobiles have ever been
I'd a & per cent grade; just as few have
been driven down. From the height the
descent looked even more terrible. The
boards were slippery as he descended, and
tae car began TO slide al a dangerous
Epeed. He says he has been miles Up IN
Ire air in a balloon and mas looked down
without swimming sensations; however
this dash down the Washington cable IN
cline gave sensations which he had never
experienced before.
Started By Governor Judson Harmon -roia
his home in Columbus, the recent mldwln-
ter Columous-Sp Springfield motor reAapllty
run proved 70 be one OF the most strenuous
in the annals of Ohio motoring. On the
1rst day OF the contest much clay, mud
ard sl1sh were encountered between Co.
l,mtus and Lancaster. The REQ 4-o0'
driven BY Frank Il. Lawwell. finished with
ue-fect score. and won the silver trophy
for It's class by big margins. This is the
ss~ns model 1911 REQ with which L. L.
Whitman lowered the worlds transconti-
mental record between New YORK and san
Francisco. August 10 70, 1919, by nearly
Ave days.
President II. A Mathews OF the Jackson
Automobile Company Is authority for the
statement that a great percentage OF auto
mobile builders fail 70 distribute The weight
o. their cars properly and that as re-
suit the owners tire bills are often enor-
nous.
Even when the greatest weight IS in front.
the rear tires always get more weight than
these In front. The fact is cited that while
IN horse-drawn vehicles the wheels are
pulled over obstacles. H. propelled ones they
aye pushed by traetive force. The Dig
manufacturers declare that the life OF a
tire is inversely proportional 70 the cube
Of the load which IL supports.
The matter OF equalizing the weight on
each side OF the machine Is a matter OF
great Importance. The chassis builders
make the best mechanical product they can
and leave the matter OF tires 20 the tire
men, forgetting that the owners satisfac-
ton can result only from their working 10
gether
OF the eight thousand automobiles which
the Altcaeil-Lewss Motor Company will
ship from ite Racine. Wis. plant during
the year 1911 one-eighth, or total Of one
thousand,win 90 % foreign markets Every
continent every nation that makes any
pretence Of being a world power and many
small pr!ncipalities that the average Amer
lean has never heard Of will receive con-
Segment OF one or more Of these machines.
Two countries where the demands for
Mitchell cars are especially insistent are
England and South Africa The English
man Is proverbially cautious, and the mer-
us Of the better grade OF American made
cars are rapidly being discovered by him.
In South Africa, where long 'treks" form
part or the life of every man OF conse-
ouenee. the Mitchell cars have ests blished
credit for reliability.