Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-02-03
HUPMOBILE MADE
REMARKABLE RUN
From Capital to Capital in
Every State the Car Demon
strates Efficiency

No better example can be found of
the efficiency of the modern motor
car or of its ability to serve the needs
OF any American-no matter what or
wnere his busineSS-than the perform
ance of the four cylinder Hupmobile,
which was sent around the United
States on its twenty-thousand mile
journey by j. Walter Drake" says Lee
Anderson, vice-president of the Hupp
Motor Car corporation.
This car had to negotiate every
sort of road condition through every
Kind of climatic condition. There is
no condition which an owner of an
automobile would have to meet that
mas mas not peen faced and overcome by
the members of the Hupmobile capi-
tal-to-capital party on it's journey
around the nation. The good roads of
the far east and the far west, the
partly improved roads of the central
west, the gumbo of the northwest, the
snow covered passes of the Rockies,
the mountain roads which called for
travel at all attitudes, the deserts of
the southwest and the rain-soaked
roads of the south, proved all alike
Tor this sturdy little car. 1t plugged
along on its steady grind day after
day for four months without any
chance for rest, and motors require
rest the same as human beings.
This car travelled farther in four
months than the average owner drives
Ills Netl III ltuT years. 1t demonstrated
more than was ever demonstrated in
any of the automobile contests,
whether they have been held on race
track or road-just what an owner
would have to overcome in driving a
car in these United States.
The Hupmobile was sent away from
washington without any more prepar-
alton than any ether car receives
coming out of the Hupmobile factory
me party was given no set itinerary
except to visit the capital of each
state in the Union. They were in
reports of what they saw and take the
necessary road pictures.
IL was not contest, but demon
stration. No supplies were shipped
ahead, no special supplies OF oil and
gasoline preceded them. They bought
everything as they went along, taking
bad with the good. One of the feat
ures of this demonstration was the
proof that an owner can travel any,
where in the country and obtain sup
plies. Although many times the dis
tances between stations were great,
there was never n time when they
could not carry enough to meet their
needs.
This car carried all the baggage nee
essary for the party, each member
had suitcase for his personal be-
longings, A large amount of extras in
carried by the car-far more than an
owner would require or undertake to
carry. In fact, when fully loaded with
the equipment necessary for its mis-
sion, this good roads car had an ex-
cess of over 1,400 pounds. The ham
dicap of this extra weight can be bet
ter understood when 1 state that the
regular weight of the car when ready
for the road is 2.75O pounds.
At times through the gumbo reg
ions. the car would pick up as much
as 800 pounds of heavy mud. This
added of course. to its difficulties and
certainly made the strain much great
er.
While this trip demonstrated that
American roads need much in the
way of improvement and that some
states are far behind in the improve
ment of their highways, it also proved
that as a whole, the nation is pretty
well equipped with good roads. The
pictures taken by the party show that