Arizona republican., 1919-08-03
MWV|CTORY MODEL / IF MITCHELL MAKES
 GOOD WITH VENGEANCE


 In a contest between man and mat ter. man usually wins; one exception is the case in which a man attempts to punish a motor car to the breaking point. If the car be sturdy enough Ii will wear the driver down and make | him admit defeat, though he spare neither car nor motor. Such was tpe accomplishment placed to the credit Of the New Victory Mitchell when, m 5.320 miles driven in 22 days it with stcod test that scarcely could have been made more severe.
 When Automobile Editor Brownie of the Milwaukee Journal, probably the best known and most severe road driver in Wisconsin, took the Victory Mitchell on his 5000 mile state trunk highway inspection tour, tour over all the main line highways in the state of Wisconsin. it was understood that the Car was expected to withstand an average of 300 miles per day over highways of every possible condition The car was to be in no way spared or eoddled; it was to be driven throughf to the finish without shop attention, or failing, just so far as it would go and the truth was to be told of the result.
 Wisconsin's trunk line highways are, proba bly, as good as any similar sys- tenn to be found For the purpose of the ordinary tourist they are excel lent. But the tour of the Victory Mitchell was in no way ordinary. To begin with. if was undertaken at the most difficult time of the year possible and ;he climate did not hesitate to throw it's uuoea of burden upon car and driver Sometime during every day the car was out it was rained upon.
 No state in the union affords a greater variety of scenery and conse- uuently, of roads, than does Wiscol- sin. Tn one of the days of the .our the car travelled from the midst of rhe sand belt in the center of the state down to the southern border and into yellow and red and gray clay and back to the gravel of the eastern central section During this days run it WAS called upon to travel through both sand and mud into which the axle dragged. twice it was thrown into the soft mud of ditches and made 10 drag itself. with the aid of chains, mud hooks and tractor -wheel-like rttach- ments pllced on 16-inch sections of the rear tires, back to the roadway. And this was a fair example of any 70 C, the days of the tour.
 That the tour might be of value to the makers of the car, as well as serve it's purpose of state highway in spection, a specified grade of gasoline and a certain lubricating oil were used throughout the entire tour, shipped to convenient points about the state. Tn addition to the 1S-gallon tank on the rear, two five gallon tanks of fuel were carried on the run ling boards. These, and the shovel chat travelled with the spare tires were found to be the two most useful insti- tutions aboard Many times. lacking hut two of an average of once for each day out, it was actually necessary shovel away parts of soft roadway on ditches into which the car had dug it. stf before it could be forced on its way. It was a grand little l9 .::icn, that shovel.
 Twice in the course of the tour. the Victory Mitchell travelled the length oi Wisconsin. from Beloit to Superior an6 again from Janesville to Eagle River
  the state From sweltering heat a Beloit it ran into fog and snow flakes at Superior. all within 4S hours. FroG the semi mountainous roads of the region around the famous Wisconsin Deus it rolled onto the flat. track like stretches farther north and east anf on the hills and the cut-over lands O the north where the roads are more s,, inf1 n the state and where one travels for : hundred miles. or more without onc' seeing a hur1an habitation.
 Twice was it necessary to mak' minor repairs that the tour might b continued neither of which repair could he charged to the car am were therefore legitimate. Once. on z deeply rutted sand road through tho cut lover lumber country a front vince struck a sunken hidden lcg at 3 miles per hour and broke one leaf 0 a front spring. This was replaced Again in going around washed ou culvert if was necessary to driV through wet. black muck The wheel sunk. the. front wheels against a loi in the mire. Tn using chains an mud-hooks to drive the car from tn hole one of the -mud hooks came loos and the brake bands were torn off b, the spinning wheel. This brake ban' was replaced. With these exception il was never necessary to make re pair or adjustment except to mak carburetor allowance for the widel varying road conditions.
 Not once throughout -the entire 5S2 miles was spark-plug touched. @as necessary to replace the larg gasoline tank which was lost. This los was undiscovered by driver an passenger until the tank was too ia behind to be found when search wa made. The car had traeveled leu miles on the supply in the vacuur tank new tank was shipped to point so miles ahead and the distanc made by twisting the gasoline lin through a vent in the running boar and inserting it into one of the emer gency tanks on the side.
 Oil in the crankcase was change approximately every 500 miles; hig test gasoline was used throughout. Be cause of the excessive load impose upon the motor-often ten or fiftee