Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1905-1919, 1917-03-10
CADILLAC CAR RUNS
"a HOURS EVERY DAY
On the Go Constantly in All
Kinds of Weather and on
All Roads.

Automobile manufacturers. as 2
rule. subject their cars periodically to
driving over the roads for several
weeks or a month or So But II is
doubtful If any other car has ever
| come in for a test quite as gruollnr
and continuous as 'hat which fails &c
the lot of the Cadillac eight "24-hour
car"
This car is operated by the factory
at Dctroit-not only "a hours a day,
out every day-winter and summer,
I'm fair weather and foul. thru sand
mud mud and snow: thru dust and
! pouring rain. II knows no rest. and
the OBJECT cf the drivers Is to see how
/ mu"h punishment and abuse they can
/ Give II. such car has been on tho
roa ds OF Michigan fer the last two
| years. Four experimental drivers.
working in pairs, each pair driving
| twelve hours, pilot the ca. on its cease
less arind. The failure If deliberate
attempts by the drivers to break and
| wear ont various parts constitutes a
source Of daily reinsurance to Cadillac
engineers
Detroit newspaper reporter who
| spent part Of night in the "24 hour
| car wrote Of his adventure as follows
THE tor was up the side curtains
were down, for II was raining. and the
Whom I say covered, I mean plastered
| NV first impression was that | was
not alone in the tonreau. There was
something lyin- on the floor I'm front
Of me. kicked IT. and II did not
move. Then I touched IT, and 1t felt
cold and clammy. ! recoiled squeam-
| ishly
If those sandbaGs are in the way.
! inst Kick 'em around any way YOU
please. said ono of the experimental
| men. Ter of 'em, - pounds apiece
Same as five $50 pourd people
"We soon reached the concrete out
side the city. Altho II was wet ana
| slippery the size, the noiselossness and
the smooth-runring Of tile car gave
me scTsc OF absolute security.
| The concrete ended abruptly, and
We were upon treacherous clay road
| The windshield was so spattercd with
dirty water that II was occasionally
necessary for one of the men to sozzl O
| ctf portion Of the glass with his
glove
Some othe- reckless vovager of the
night had apparently preceded us, for
tire tracks corkscrewed from one side
cf the road TO the other. II was ap-
| rarentlv 4 lighter car, and everything
indicated that II was having n rough
| voyage And ours WAS by no means
smooth. Thirty, 80, as miles al
| hour --
"T lunscd from one side Of tine ton
| neau to the other. If the car had hcen
| anything but n Cadillac eight, ana the
man OF the wheel anyone but n mas
! ter should have giver up all hope
| Mile after mile Of luNging, buffetng
| rammlng.
Presently we saw the tail light Of
tho other car and we soon. passed II
with n swish. As | had guessed, It was
n smaller, lighter car. As they saw
us roll past them with such unswerv-
| ing power. an expression Of admira-
tlon must have passed their lips
| "All the time the men had been
| silent eXceDt for such occasional re-
| marks as:
Never saw these roads so treach
erous'
| Say, but this car has'-bump into
n rut-'controllabllity!'
\ was not driving began to sins-ar at
tempt az grand opera. II eXasperated
me because | wanted TO sleep. In spite
Of the grand opera and the threshlne
| around. | finally did dozo a little.
when ! awoke we had reached n
stretch whore the rain had only been
llght and the roads were nearly dry.
| We swung along more steadily than
| before, and | was ablo to sit back
| comfortably. We removed the side
| curtains The musical one began
humming ragtlme An ungodly hour
for ragtlme, l thot. As we passed a