The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-11-30
H. M. BAILEY TELLS OF RECORD MADE BY
 MAXWELL ON TOUR
Muddy Fields or Slippery Hills Fail to Stop Truck
 in Smashing All Gas
 and Oil Records

The lightest, lowest priced one and one-half-ton entry in the national mo tor truck development tour, which ended at Milwaukee several weeks ago after travelling over 5000 miles through the six richest farming states of the middle west, made the best average for consumption of gasoline. oil and water, according to H. M. Bailey. It travelled the same rough roads and carried its share of the overloads from soft fields as the other participants. The truck was a Maxwell
 stock one and one-half-ton truck was taken from production without pre- liminary running up" and placed in the long demonstration tour in competition with the best in America. It traversed some of the worst roads in the country, over plowed fields and in country lanes, at times hauling many hundreds pounds in excess of it's rated capacity and markable record.
 The Maxwell came through without the need of mechanical adjustment and the big 35x5 pneumatic tires which carried the truck looked at the finish as they they had not been run 100 miles.
 Records available. show that the Max well averaged slightly under 13 miles to the gallon of gas over 1900 miles to the gallon of oil, and 3S3 miles to the gallon of water
 These gas and oil records, which ] understand were from one to five gal Ions higher than the average, are good under the most favorable conditions, said Mir. Bailey .'but I consider them exceptional when it is considered that the truck carried loads of potatoes out of soft fields to market, hauled tsacks of wheat from field to thresher, hurried overloads of milk from farm to ship ping points, and otherwise demon strated it's usefulness under all condi- tions to all the needs of the American farmer Over smooth stretches of prairie road the Maxwell made as high as r miles to the gallon of gas, which is as good as the consumption of the aver age pleasure car.
 Near Fargo, N. D., Percy Gibbs driver of the truck, made his most difficult demonstration. From the Schra eder Bros farm two loads of po- tatoes, each weighing 3700 pounds, were taken from a osft, plowed field, where the wheels of the truck sank hub deer in the mire, to the depot five miles away. Groceries, grain, bran, flour milk, furnaces. potatoes pop, gasoline oil, baggage and general merchandise were carried at different times during the tour, proving the MaXWelIs yer satility.
 s'The ability of the truck to pull through muddy stretches of gumbo road and over slippery hills that the natives claimed were impossible, on it's own power, is a matter of pride with Driver Gibbs, who has travelled some of the worst roads in the country and who as- serts that some of these traversed by the truck train were as bad as any he has seen.
 Rural interest was extreme at all points along the S000-mileA trail where demonstrations were helds and many subsequent sales resulted,' said Mir Bailey. This confirms my belief that when the American farmer realizes the advantages of motorizing his acreage he will be one of the largest purchas- CTS of motor trucks in the country"