The Daily Missoulian. [volume] (Missoula, Mont.) 1904-1961, 1917-01-07
M9|l|B! FOUR
Blanket Of Snow Makes the
Roads Perfect, Declares
Maxwell Pilot.

Ton you experienced when you went
spinning over the finest stretch of open
country road you have ever driven
your tar through
DO YOU want to know how to inn
prove on that ride? Do you want to
know how; to get the utmost Of riding
pleasure out of your automobile?
Take a winter tour. starting out for
the open country just after six or
seven inches of snow has blankctcd
the earth.
The most experienced motor car pilot
in Amcrica---Rly. L. Mcnamara, vino
has established SO many records in all
parts Of the country with Maxwell cars
in durability tests and gasoline ccono
my runs, and who have driven more
miles than amy other man living ~
makes the surprising statement that
the winter tour, made when a good
fall Of snow has padded the road, gives
the automobile ow.ler the highest pos
siblc degree of satisfaction within the
scope of attainment ON the part of
the man at the wheel
SEDAN Is the VehiCle.
Ii anyone is qualified to speak with
authority on such Il subject il is Nc
Namara, for he has 100000 miles of
motor car driving to his credit. and all
this without the slightest kind of IN
accident OF any description. Nc
Namara boasts that he has never even
killed 4 chicken in the road.
He has driven Maxwell cars from
coast to coast. and their reliability has
enabled him to establish speed and
gasoline economy records in practically
every section of the United States.
With his sturdy Maxwcll-his present
car has 100000 miles of running
clicked Off on the speedometer-hc has
logged mountain tran roads for Pacific
coast automobile clubs, and he has
scaled New England peaks in dura-
bility and non stop runs.
With the arrival of such car as
the new Maxwell Sedan, the winter
tour. which Mcnamara so indorses,
opens itself up as a possibility for any
motorist, and to reveal for the motor
plished without difficulty in this con-
dition of driving, Mcnamara plans
now to mark out, for motorists every
where, various winter tour routes, and
these he will go over in a Maxwell
Sedan.
With half-d dozen inches of snow in
the road, the modern motor car at
tains softness of tread that is COM
parable with the pad of a leopard's
foot, Mcnamara declares. This" adds
wonderfully to the cars natural soft
ness. and it likewise, he says, gives to
motion a degree of silence that is not
attainable in the summer months. The
rssnow packs all the little chuck holes
and ruts that obtain in even the best
of roads, and it provides for the car
soft giving surface that smooths
out n highway to a surface not sur
passed by the finest speedway track.
A Famous Winter Run.
Philadclphians thought it passing
strange that the Maxwell pilot should
pick such a month. and q time when
the mountains We're know to be
white with snow, to compete with a
cross state record that had been es-
tabished at the height of the summer
touring season, when the roads were
in excellent condition for running at
speed. But the Maxwell driver had
learned for himself that the snow
pad was in reality no disadvantage,
though he made the run in an open
car.
The modern driver, however, now
has the completely enclosed car-the
car that is Il sedan in winter, a touring
car in summer--so the suggestion
comes from Mcnamara that anyone
who wishes, may readily establish for
himself the truth of the statement that
the winter tour is the ideal tour
The modern car gives an enclosure
that grasses the windbiting of winter
and, because of its special features
operates to improve the pleasures of
summer. The snowfall in the high
ways will give the car a footing that
1t will leap to with an eagerness OF
engine not associated at all with sum
mcr heats and hard, hot and dusty
surfaces on the roads.
Fry winter tour. Chances are You
Will plan your automobile vacation fol
January or February thereafter, in
stead of for July or August.