Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-10-11
|HUDSON'S TRIUMPH
REMARKABLE ONE
Record Trip Both Ways Across
Continent Shows Possibilities
and Advance of Motorcars

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The Hudson Super-Six did a Won
derful thing when it ran from San
Francisco to New York in five days
three hours and thirty-one minutes.
But it was a more marvellous accom-
plishment when that same car turned
around and went back across the con-
tinent and completed the round trip
in ten days twenty-one hours and
three minutes
Up to last August the best one-way
/ time for any automobile was seven
days and eight hours. But the same
Hudson Super-Six has now made the
round trip in just two and half days
longer time than was required for the
one-way trip in the best record up to
August The Hudson on its return
trip beat every previous transconti-
mental record except its own. 1t had
fair chance to do that up to the last
| leg of the trip. On the going trip the
distance from San Francisco to Elko,
Nevada, was made in 20 u hours. On
account of rains in the Sierra Nevada
mountains, thirty-five hours were re-
quired on the return trip to negotiate
that distance. The car was 1 Y hours
ahead of its schedule when 1t reached
Elko. But as it took fifteen hours
longer to finish the last COO miles than
we required in making those same 600
miles in the gong trip, it was unable
to break it's own record. Still it ar
rived back in San Francisco in fifty
seven minutes less time than any other
car that ever made the transconti-
mental run.
One does not have to be the oldest
inhabitant" to recall the year when
fast railroad train trying for n mail
contract took six days to cross II 8 con-
tinent. Anything less than six days in
journey by rail from coast to coast
was worth mention in the news col
umns. But a few years ago it was
worth first page announcement
when an automobile turing party was
able to report, no matter in how many
days, that 1t made the full distance
unaided.
The transcontinental run of the
Hudson Super-SiX marks a new mile
stone in civilizations progress. The
run from San Francisco to New York
and return is a most marvellous record.
No automobile ever before attempted
the round trip against time. The Hud-
son Super-Six set out to establish a
record for endurance. Every test it
has entered 1t has won. 1t was not
that records were desired to show
speed, but that proof was sought in
dicating that the Super-SiX, by rea-
son of its exclusively controlled and
patented motor, so reduced vibration
that a new standard of motor endur-
ance has been established by it. Speed
proves endurance to a motor just as
it shows the endurance of a man.
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same fatigue to machinery as it does
to man. So by tests on the speed
way, when the Super-SiX was driven
1919 miles in twenty-four hours-52
per cent. further than any other trav-
cling machine ever went in that time
we were able to crowd punishment
into that short time exceeding any
thing like years of service would i'm
pose upon the car.
It is 3,476 miles from San Francisco
to New York. In the going trip the
Super-Six averaged 28.14 miles per
hour. This included all stops and the
slowing down to the speed require
ments of more than $50 cities, towns
and villages. The return trip, for the
reasons already stated, was not so fast.
But counting all stops from the time
the car left San Francisco until it re-
turned. it travelled 1852 miles at the
rate of approximately 700 miles day.
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patented motor which Hudson eXclu-
sively controls was this speed made
possible. Science produced that motor
out of the Hudson engineering staff.
Science brought the motorcar up to
it's present point of reliability. Finely
tempered steel and other metals, it is
true, made possible the remarkable
run of the Super-Six But these were
available also to all cars. 1t was the
Super-Six patented motor which has
increased the efficiency of the auto
mobile to the extent shown in this
remarkable round trip across the con-
tinent.
Gasoline is the great magician that
makes possible miracles undreamed OF
wher the Arabian Nights were made
so enhancing by mans imaginative
powers. Tribute must be paid to the
ingenuity of man that has developed
that magician. But greater tribute
must be paid to the higher refinements
of mechanical and chemical skill
which combined find expression in
the Hudson Super-Six to the extent
of making possible its great perform
ances and thus point to the possibili-
ties of motorcar development.
Such performances as have been
shown by the Super-SiX set the world
to thinking. They open new channels
of thought about our country. Where
the automobile has proved in such a
startling way how it links the country
to the city, the Super-Six proves how
to link coast to coast. Through the
development of gasoline and me-
chanical development as has been
shown in the Super-Six 1t has laced
together the great wastes of spaces
of the limited States