Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1919-11-09
0'CONNELL TELLS OF
MAXWELL RECORD MADE
ON 5000 MILE TOUR

The lightest, lowest priced one and
one-half ton entry in the National
Motor Truck Development Tour,
which ended at Milwaukee several
weeks ago, after travelling over 1900
miles through the SIX richest farming
states of the middle west, made the
| best average for consumption of gaso-
line, oil, and water according to Jack
O'Connell, of O'Connell- Harrington
Motor company. 1t Travelled the same
rough roads and carried its share of
the oyerloads from soft fields as the
other participants The truck was Il
Maxwell.
A stock one and one-half ton truck
was taken from production without
preliminary tuning up" and placed
al me long demonstration tour IN
competition with the best in America.
1t traversed some of the worst roads
in the country, over plowed fields
and in country lanes, at times haul
ing many hundred pounds in excess
OF its rated capacity and made re-
markahle 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 though they had not been
run over one hundred miles
Records available show that the
Maxwell averaged slightly under l3
miles to the gallon of gas, over l,2O0
miles to the gallon of oil, and 3S3
miles to the gallon of water.
These gas and oil records which l
understand were from one to five gall
| Ions higher that the average, are good
under the most favorable conditions"
said Mr.. O'Connell, but l consider
them exceptional when it is consider
! ed that the truck carried loads of po-
tatoes out of soft fields to market,
hauled stacks of wheat from field to
! thresher, hurried Overloads of milk
from farm to shipping points, and
| otherwise demonstrated its useful
ness under all conditions to all the
needs of the American farmer. Over
smooth stretches of prairie road the
! Maxwell made as high as II miles to
the gallon of gas which is as good as
the consumption of the average pleas
uTe car"
Near Fargo, n. D., Percy Gibbs,
driver of the truck, made his most
difficult demonstration. From the
Schroeder Bros farm two loads of
potatoes, each weighing 300 pounds,
were taken from a soft plowed field,
where the wheels of the truck sank
hub deep in the mire, to the depot,
five miles away. Groceries, grain,
bran, flour, milk furnaces, potatoes,
pop gasoline, OIL baggage and gen
eral merchandise were carried at Diff
ferent times during the tour proving
the MaXwelrs versatility.
The ability of the truck to pull
through muddy stretches of gumbo
road and over slippery hills that the
native claimed were impossible, on
its own power is a matter of pride
with driver Gibbs, who has Travelled
some of the worst roads in the coun-
try and who asserts that some of those
traversed by the truck train were as
bad as any he has seen.
Rural interest was extreme at al
points along the 5000 mile trail
where demonstrations were held and
many subsequent sales resulted said
Mr.. O'Connell. This confirms my be-
lief that when the American farmer
relaizes the advantages of mortorizina
his acreage he will be one of the largl
est purchasers of motor trucks in the
country"