Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1912-04-28

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ly Company Inc, and William Neumann.
touring cars and delivery wagons to the
Washington Dairy Company and the Co.
lumbia Laundry Company.
Ten thousand miles or forty times the
distance to New York Is long distance
to travel in motor car, but that is the
extent of the new Rambler factory guar
antee announced by H. B. Leary, jr., who
has just received his first shipment of
the new Rambler cross-country model.
H. E. Field. eastern manager for the
Rambler, with headquarters in New
York. and E. s. Jordan, branch manager
for the factory, were In Washington Sat
urday to arrange for further extensions
of the Rambler sales and service organi-
cation in this territory. THE new ten
thousand mile guarantee" said Mr.. Field.
lis only possible because we make SO per
cent of the parts that go into Rambler
cars in our own factory and We have
such confidence in their efficiency that
we give to every purchaser a signed
guarantee for ten thousand miles or
about the equivalent Of three years OF
service"
Imagine the distance you can cover be-
fore exhaustinG such a guarantee. You
can start from Washington, go to New
York on to Albany. Buffalo, Chicago and
Cleveland. From there you can go north
to Winnipeg and west to the coast and
proceeding down through Frisco to Los
Mexico City, returning by way Of Gal
weston and New Orleans. through At
lanta and on to Washington. Yet when
you had covered this distance you would
not have quite exhausted this Rambler
guarantee.
Through 1.JO4 miles of the worst road
that could be found In the south was the
test that has been given the auto true Ks
which were designed to take the place of
the train wagons by Capt Alexander E.
Williams. L. S. A. Capt. Williams start
ed from Washington with four auto
trucks, and finished the trip with all but
one On the route the party passed
through indianapolis, Richmond, Va;
Raleigh, Charlotte, Atlanta, Chattanooga,
Nashville. Louisville. returning to Indian
apOlis. While the results were satisfac-
tory. this is not regarded as final test,
as the machines will be sent with the pro-
visional regiment this summer. which is
to test out the infantry equipment and
give practical demonstration of a reg
iment of companies of $50 strength. On
this trip three-ton trucks as well as
the Characterization trucks will be
given the service test. 1t is proposed to
use the three-ton trucks on the line OF
communication, while the one-and-a-half-
ton trucks are designed to take the place
of the transport wagons. 1t is claimed
that with auto trucks the line of commu-
nication of regiment or an organiza-
ton can be greatly increased. There is
no doubt that machines can be built that
will operate successfully on the line OF
communication. The trip which Capt
Williams has recently completed fully
demonstrates this The machines tray
eied with the regulation load over roads
which the farmers had abandoned. 1t is
true that the auto trucks were frequently
stalled in the mud, but three of them
were able to go the entire route on their
own power One machine would fire.
quently get SO deeply imbedded in the
mud that 1t took two ito pull 1t out But
they did succeed. without the assistance
of horses or mules. In the provisional
regiment experiment this summer the
one-and-a-half-ton truck will be required
to work in the train along with the
mules. The machines have not been given
a trial with troops in the field. and the
result of the experiment viii be watched
with great interest. Capt. Williams will
be in charge of this experiment. and, as
was noted last week. is an expert on the
subject of motor trucks.
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The Selby Company, which has the
agency for the Paige car, has established