Arizona republican., 1919-07-06
9A1[T PERT FORINANCE OF PATERSON STAMPS
 II AS UNUSUAL CAR

There are records without number of the performance of Apperson carG under most adverse conditions. In many cakes, while proving the won derful power and value of an Apperson car, yet the conditions encounters5 were the unusual ones.
 It is the every day driving across country, touring, that any one is liabls 10 encounter that proves the real value of any car.
 For that reason the experience of 2 Detroit Apperson driver in long pull through driving rain storm. in deep mud and in many cases a quagmire, will prove a real index 10 real Apper- son value.
 Without any further comment here with is quoted from a letter received from w. A. Pritchard of Detroit. de- scribing his experience with his Ap- person Anniversary Tourster in a re- cent drive through Ohio and Indiana.
 "I never realized fully how fine 2 rar l had or how good a ear an Alp person really is until my recent drive away in my new job from Kokomo to Detroit.
 'We left Kokomo, as you may know on Thursday afternoon rather late, in my new Apperson Anniversary Tours ter, and just lazied along until we got to Fort Wayne where we stayed over night
 Tn the morning when we awoke we discovered that it had been pouring all night long. l am frank to admit that it was with considerable tre- pidition that we started across Indiana and Ohio, knowing as we did the con ditions of the roads. As you probably know, many of the Indiana and most of the Ohio roads that we cover are very fair going during fair weather, but after heavy down pour they are combination of ordinary country mud and clay that in many places develop into a quagmire
 T have driven cars for some years. I have hit hog back roads. l have hit ordinary country roads, but I must say that l never struck going as diff ficult as that which we struck be- tween Fort Wayne and Detroit
 For example, there was one stretch particularly, practically S5 miles. with deep ditches on the side, mud that was never less than inches deep, with the rain coming down in sheets and making the roads nothing but a pond.
 Beyond that we hit one stretch of : miles where the mud was so deer that the car which was going through in front of us with four chains on it left no impress whatever. In othe; words, it was just a sea of clay and water.
 The Apperson walked through it as though it were running over a boule- ward almost On several occasions had to set my brakes, yet I never hac skid. Through it all I very seldom had to put the car in second and never had to put it in low.
 You hear of flexibility on the cit, boulevards where you slow your cal down to miles an hour and go ahead in high. but the joy of this ride to mt was the fact that some times we were going as slow as miles an hour. al other times we were running along at 23 or "A miles an hour and yet it was all done in high.
 We passed car after car that was stalled. We passed 3 of them that hat slipped off the side of the road into the ditch, but the Apperson Tourstei just kind of laughed-if car can laugl at the kind of going we encountered
 T want to compliment you gen. tlemen in turning out what in my mind IS the best car l have ever driver or ridden in car with power for an soing with a balance that made rid ing through this mud and rough stuff pleasure, and with d finish whicl showed no sign of the caked clay tha had been on it as soon as l washed it off with a little cold water.
 Gentlemen, you are to be con graduated on turning out beautiful car in every sense of the word.
 And to sum it all up. when I ar rived in Detroit that night after drive of nearly 200 miles. all the wa, through the rain and this bad goins for great part of the way, I was fla from being tired out. I am pleased t give my testimony to the worth while ness of vOllr prOduof