Iron County record. [volume] (Cedar City, Utah) 1893-1982, 1918-07-05
GREAT ECONOMY
OF BUICK CARS
In Carefully Conducted Test, Five Pas
senger, 60 II. =. Buick Makes
25.7 Miles on Gallon.

/ A five passenger, 60 horsepower
BUICK car made 25.7 miles on one
gallon of gasoline in recent test
made at Salt Lake City, with four
passengers, Chas. LeBronte, automo-
bile editor of the Tribune; Marion
Nelson, automobile editor of the Des-
eret News; Earl Smith, sales manager
of the Randall-Dodd Automobile Co.,
and one passenger, were in the car at
the time the test was made.
That Buick five-passenger car,
driven over ordinary roads, makes 257
miles on gallon of gasoline is the
definite statement which will be made
of Buick gasoline consumption in the
future.
Thursday of last week the Randall
Dodd Auto company, distributors of
Buick cars, made a thoroughly con-
elusive trial in Buick five-passenger
touring car. Automobile editors of
two of the local papers acted as judg-
es, and they, with Mr.. Smith and
passenger, were in the car during the
entire test.
Mr.. Smith filled gallon can Of gas
oline from the regular Randall Dodd
commercial tank. Then he disconnect-
ed the regular gasoline distributing
system on the Buick and attached a
tube to the can of gasoline, the other
end being attached direct to the car
bureter. The can was held in the front
seat during the test.
Nine miles down State street and
then back up town and around the bus
mess section until the gasoline was
! exhausted was the route selected. At
the start of the test the speedometer
registered zero, and at the end of the
trip it registered 257 miles.
The route taken allowed no coasting
and, in fact, the greater part of it was
= over a slight upgrade.
The average six-cylinder car con-
sumes gallon of gasoline about ev-
q cry eighteen miles, which shows the
e economy of the Buick car in COMPARE
i son.
$ So great has been the demand for
t the Buick car that in January it was
impossible for the Randall-Dodd COM
:. pany to get any more cars in time to
|, fill the sales made and in consequence
2 the company was without cars for
j. several weeks.
o Congested freight conditions in the
e East were largely responsible for this
n nondelivery, but finally arrangements
were made and the cars came in big
i shipments.
!, The wonderful record of 100 Buicl
= cars being received from the factory
n and placed in customers possession
n within the last three months has beer
o made by the Randall-Dodd company
!, Another important feature of tn,
n Buick is the fact that it is practically
L the only American standard car that
has not advanced in price during the
last year until the raise in freigh
:, rates, which went into effect June 25
compelled a slight advance.
Kopp's Garage is able to make i'm
/. mediate deliveries of cars at the pres
f ent time, but it is urging those who
contemplate the purchase of a Buick
r to do so at once, both because of the
/ fact that later on prompt delivery may
d not be possible, and also because 6
$ second advance in price may take plac,
> any time within the next sixty days
. p. S.-The foregoing is printed as
. an advertisement, being taken from
@ the Telegram Herald Republican oI
[. June 30th.
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