The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1911-01-28
RIDING IN A TESTING CAR.

It sort or a lonesome JOO, IS tIIIs thing of testing out a racing car all alone. so Ernest Billiard. designer of the Pullmans Motor Car Company, took Advertising Manager Walter H. Fink along. When the pair return ed Gilliard. looking as though he had gone through a mustard vat on an eclipse of the moon. was more than enthusiastic over the way the car took the hills and the fact that it covered the road. between York and WrightsvilIe and back, a distance of twenty-two miles, in twenty-six min utes. Not so the advertising mana ger. He was pleased with the car all right but other things happened -on the trip.
 There ought to be about two para graphs in here OH what he said apout going out with GirIiard again, but of the things were:
 There's one big difference be- tween jumping off forty-three story building into barbed wire bath tub and riding with Billiard wheE he is testing out his Pullman Speedster. When you jump off the building you know all that will hap pen to you is that you will have both legs and arms broken. your head mashed to a jelly and your diaphragm damned into the crown of your der by. When you take a ride with Gil- Hard, you don't know what's going to happen
 About this time a reporter broke in with the statement that MT. Fink needed a bath.
 Another paragraph is left out here and again advisedly.
 Did you ever ride on a corn shell Ter at the rate of seventy miles an hour through mud, snow, slush and water? Or probably. you were shot off the falls of Niagara in a butter <J 1Ix .p1vr 4tn EoH tom? Perhaps at some time or oth- CT you were walking up moving stairway when it collapsed and you fell into bowl of onion stew in the kitchen, fourteen flights below? Now do you know how feel? Riding at seventy miles an hour is about as comfortable as sitting on the tail HalIey's comet when it is making a complete eclipse.
 Billiard said he wouldn't exceed the speed limit. As there isn't any speed limit for flying machines, he didn't. s6
 We hadn't more than reached the city limits when Aviator Gillaird started. He was headed for Wrightsville. I was going back to the center of the city, via the gas tank, but my foot caught in the steer ing wheel.
 Oh no! Billiard wasn't going to exceed the speed limit. In about thirty seconds after he started to op- en her up we were going so fast that the wind made my face feel like the inside of an ice cream freezer. Did you ever climb into an iceberg to look for moth flies? That's how cold it was.
 Everything was fine for about a minute and then we hit the railroad track at Stony Brook. Oi! Oi! What an awful thing it is to face the Mill lenium I don't know what I would have given at that moment if I hadn't stolen that penny when I was six months old. 1.
 When we got on the other side of Hallam, Billiard says: Watch me now!' ] watched. Hereafter I'll jump. There are about six bumpers in a row down there That's the rumor We only hit one. After we had 'BIerioted' over the others we land ed should say we mudded.s Did rice field? Know how your face would look? There you have it.
 We went so fast between Hallam and Wrightsville and back that I think if some youngster had thrown a snowban at us when we were going down it would have hit us when we got back. No one tried it this time, but another fellow who went down the pike with Billiard says con stable shot at them outside of Stony
  whizz twice-once when it passed them and once when they passed it.
 eff I had carried more life insur- ance I wouldn't have minded the trip from Hallam to York. We hit one bumper and I closed my eyes and time-the next time I went out with Gilliard I wouldn't go.
 How do I feel? Did you ever shoot the shoots in corn crib and land on the back of your neck at the bottom in an oyster bed, break used as a stone crusher for a day or two? Yes? That's it. The next time there Is any testing to be done. am going to get a rubber diving guard, pair of ankle braces, a nose guard. a pair of crutches and hun dred yards of steel cable, so that IT, always be sure of being that near to the machine" |
 One hundred and seventeen Samp- son freight and delivery motors were sold during the recent commer motor vehicle show in Madison Square Garden. In addition, 1032 pressed with these vehicles to frank ly state their preference. The trend Of the commercial motor business was plainly shown by the choice of those who bought vehicles. The delivery motor with a capacity of from 1000 to 1,50O pounds was in great demand. l the one ton truck pressed | it closely in point of sales. Interest 1 in other types of vehicles was in the 1 order of their carrying capacity.
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