Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1915-02-20
ENORMOUS RACING
PROJECT PLANNED
Maxwell Motor Company to Place
Seven Racing Cars in
Greatest Events

For several years past, the auto
mobile races on various tracks
throughout this country and abroad
have attracted universal attention and
interest. Racers have won and lost.
Drivers have made names for them
selves or have been forgotten. The
speed mania has seized the American
public and to-day the car with the
speed and the ability to win holds the
public favor.
The season of 1914 has been an
unusual one. Cars hitherto unknown
In the racing field have become fa-
nous. Among these, undoubtedly, the
most talked of is the Maxwell. Max
Ing q sensational finish in the ninth
place among a field of thirty American
and foreign cars at Indianapolis, the
Maxwell shared honors with the win
the green racing car against the most
experienced and most successful
racers in the automobile world. Later
on at Tacoma, Washington, a Max
well racer won the Potlatch Trophy
for zoo miles. Hill climb records have
ben broken and endurance tests won
by ordinary stock Maxwell "25's." Old
field in Maxwell racer at Corona,
broke the worlds nonstop record COW
ering over three hundred miles with
out single stop and winning second
place in the race. Again at Point
Iona, San Diego, California. Billy
Carlson in another Maxwell racer,
won second place and breaking Old
fields record by travelling three hun
dred and five miles without stop
over one of the most difficult race
courses in the United States.
And now at the beginning of an
other season, with these triumphs to
spur them on, the Maxwell Motor
Company has decided to enter the
~np iTaer t,ar,
tered it before.
With the determined and expert
enced Ray Harroun as the moving
spirit in the enterprise, the Maxwell
Company will manufacture seven rae
ing cars for the coming season. Har-
roun, with his intimate knowledge
of racers and his constructive ability,
VIII superintendent the construction of
the cars, and will be permanently
connected with the Maxwell company,
in the capacity of chief engineer. This
fact alone foretells success for the
produt of his genius.
These racing cars, at present under
construction at the factory of the Max
well Motor Company, will be entered
in most of the speedway events of the
1915 season. The different cars will
be constructed for different classes so
that their itinerary will include al
most every race scheduled between
the coasts. One or two drivers have
already been selected to pilot the new
Maxwell racers. 1t is also known that
negotiations are now being carried
on by the Maxwell company with
some of the worlds most famous
drivers and there is every reason to
believe that the coming season will
see some of these pilots at the wheels
of the Maxwell racers.
The undertaking is the greatest ever
attempted in automobile history. No
other company has ever entered the
racing game with such determination
and with so many experienced men
to make the plan successful
Definite plans have been formed by
the Maxwell company and the work
of constructing the racers is we'll un-
der way, but as yet those in authority
are very reticent as to details. How
ever, every assurance is given that the
season Of 1915 will see the racing de-
partment of the Maxwell Motor Com
pany very much in evidence in all
speedway events and the racing world
will watch with interest the results
of this tremendous undertaking.