The Glasgow courier., 1916-04-07
AMPLE PROOF THAT
BUICK ENDURES
Model "16" Captures Fine Prize in
Mileage Contest-Has q Record
of $4,000 Miles.

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The Hyatt Roller Bearing Com
pany, Detroit, offered cash prizes some
months ago to those automobile own
ers who could show the greatest mile
age for cars equipped with their bear
ings.
First prize, consisting Of $500, was
won by Mr.. F. E. Slason, Of Plain
vile, Kansas, who was able to con-
clusively prove to the judges of the
contest that his Buick car, Model 16,
had travelled upwards Of 262, 900 miles.
This is equivalent of nine and one
half times the distance around the
equator of the earth, and certainly is
a remarkable tribute to the durabil-
ity of the Buick product. In obtain
ing this great mileage, Mr.. Slason's
Buick used upwards of fifteen thous-
and gallons Of gasoline, and wore out
more than two hundred tires.
All records submitted were review
ed by judges, Alfred Reeves, general
manager of the National Automobile
Chamber of Commerce; Coker F..
Clarkson, general manager Of the So
ciety of Automobile Engineers, and
Julian Chase, editor Of Horseless Age.
AlS the prize-winning records also
were made to stand searching in
vestigation by the Hyatt company.
While several long trips were made
with this remarkable Buick, the
greater part of this big mileage was
piled up while the car was in livery
service. During this time the car
was operated by upwards of twenty
five different drivers, some of them
experienced and others not. The car
travelled in all kinds Of weather and
upon all kinds of roads.
Among the men who drove the car
during the period covered by the prize
contest, and whose testimony was
considered by the judges in arriving
at a definite knowledge Of the cars
pCl4O WC1C.
Ralph Reeder, Lawrence Driesbach,
Clarence Prosser, Elmer Jennings,
James Lynn, John Toelkas, Fred
Use, Elmer Mise, Leo Bassett, A. A.
Dryden, II. E. Armstrong, B. c. Slas-
on, and Jess Sawyer, all Of Plainville,
Kansas; c. E. Watson, Osborne, Kans-
as; Russell Casas, Stockholm, Kansas;
Clifford Wilon, now in U. S. Army;
Arthur Bissett, Hays, Kansas; Frank
Adams, Salina, Kansas; Roy LaRue,
Kansas City, Missouri; Otto Oming,
Kansas City, Missouri; Leo Hester,
Council Grove, Kansas; Lawrence
Dryden, Stockton, Kansas; Jasper
Lawler, Phillipsburg, Kansas; Ernest
eager, Woodston, Kansas; Karl Gag
err, Woodston, aKnsas.
Mr.. w. E. Biggers, representing the
company which offered the prizes,
made special trip to Kansas from
the factory at Detroit to personally
investigate the statements that had
been submitted with reference to Mr..
Slason's car. He says, in part:
"On November 10th, interviewed
Mr.. J. F. Martin, Branch Manager,
for the Buick Motor Co., in Kansas
City, from whom Mr.. Slason bought
the 1909 Model 16 Buick in question.
Among the other evidence have
5 afidavits from drivers Of the car;
Speedometer showing $4,000 miles;
10 Statements from ten prominent
business men in Plainville; State
ment from Elevator Owner of Zurich
Kansas; l Statement from Competit-
or in Tractor field with headquarters
er, Woodston, Kansas.
in Wichita Kansas; Signed Statement
from the Catholic Priest, Methodist
Minister, Mayor of Plainville, Post
master of Plainville, Editor of the
Plainville Times, Cashier of F. and NJ.
State Bank and President and CASH
ier of 1st National Bank; Stationery
from Agent for Ford, Oakland and
Pullman Cars; l Statement from Bu-
ick X. C. Branch Manager.
In addition to all this a verbal re-
port Of the local conditions, the great
distance between railroads, the ab-
sence of speed limits, the use of the
automobile by travelling men, the high
character of Mr.. Slason and of the
men he has associated with him, will
surely show that there is absolutely
no question but that this mileage is
correct"
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