Arizona republican., 1914-10-25
STANDARDIZED COLE SETS
 TWO NEW OFFICIAL MARKS

In official tests sanctioned by the American Automobile association and under the strict supervision of it's technical representatives, a Cole four cy finder stock model, fully equipped and carrying seven passengers, es- tablished worlds fuel economy Speedway last week. The car showed ever twenty four and one-eighth miles on a single gallon of gasoline. Chief Engineer Charles s. Craw ford of the Cole board of engineers drove the test.
 Besides making this remarkable fuel economy record, this stock Cole set new ton mileage record in the tests by running 53 miles per ton of weight on a gallon of gasoline, which is equivalent to carrying one ton of weight 53 miles on a single gallon of gasoline. Previous to this show ing from 3S to AZ ton miles was re- garded as an extremely good show ing.
 In a speed test the same Cole, without any adjustments, showed un- precedented consistency, running a half hour at a fixed speed of 55.6 miles an hour. In twelve laps over the two and one-half mile speedway oval the Cole only Wavered slightly i'll this speed consistency test in one lap. This test was conducted with the car carrying it's full equipment, and is a worlds record of its kind.
 The tests were officially supervised by F. F. Edwards, of Chicago, as acting chairman of the contest board of the American Automobile associ2- ton and Secretary T. B. Shoemaker of the A. A. A. Efficiency Engineer Chester Riker represented the In- dianapolis Speedway, while T. F. Myers had charge of the Speed ways electrical timing instrument
 The Stewart Warner corporation of Chicago manufacturers of the Stewart Warner vacuum gravity gas oline control system, which is be- coming a regular equipment on many ot the 1915 models, planned the tests. Cole was the first to use this sys- tenn, and the standardized car was selected by the Stewart Warner cor poration for the tests, their chief engineer, Berne Nadell, being in charge.
 Other engineers assisting were Charles Stutz of the Stromberg Carburator company, and Frank Edwards of the Dayton Engineering Laboratories company Dayton, Ohio, 1 manufacturers of the Delco electric starting and ignition system | The records are the first official of their kind in the history of the in dustry.
 Both the pressure system and the | advance method of gasoline control | the Warner vacuum gravity | gasoline system, were tested.
 The wonderful advancement and 1 efficiency of this vacuum system ! which is now standard equipment on T goodly number of 1915 models, in | Cluding Buick, Lewis Jeffery, Oak | land, Hawnes, Lexington and oth- l CTS. was thoroughly demonstrated.
 The records were made under nor ! nal atmospheric conditions. The Cole !, was stock in every respect The 1
 
 absolutely nothing that would give ! the semblance of a record without | car or passenger conditions being | normal under actual driving conditions ! was tolerated.
 Chief Engineer Charles s. Craw ford drove the car during the fuel cconmy test, and he was accom- panied by one of the officials at all | times. Chief Tester Lew Pettiiohn | speed tests. 1
 There have been many fuel econ ! omy tests made in the history of 1 the automobile industry, but this IS the first test to be conducted under 1 the supervision and sanction of the l contest board of the A. A. A The l car was registered by the control | beard as a strictly stock model.
 To those who understand the feat 1 formance was remarkable in that it 1 carried seven full-sized men a dis tance of twenty-four and one eighth | miles; while carrying two passen gers it made a record of slightly less | than twenty four and one-half miles | to the gallon. This feature of the | tests is said to show the power pf l thc Cole-Northway engine, and it's , of the Cole claim of be- !! ing properly balanced as to weight. |
 In the gravity feed test, at a speed i of twenty-five miles an hour, the car | showed slightly under two and one half miles to the gallon. Then the | gasoline was put under air pressure from two to three pounds, and the car lacked just S29 feet of running | twentyone miles to the gallon. When 1 the fact is considered that with the | vacuum feed system the car did ! twenty four and one-eighth miles it can readily be seen that the claims | made for the great economy of the ;