Evening capital news. (Boise, Idaho) 1901-1927, 1919-11-23
BANNOCK FOLK /: SAY
MAXWELL BREAKS
MILEAGE RECORDS
5000 Mile Demonstration Tour
Gives Varied Tests for Big
Trucks-Lightest One Uses
Least Gas and on.
The lightest. lowest priced one ana a

The lightest, lowest priced one and a
half ton entry IN the national motor
truck development tour when ended
at milwaukee, several weeks ago after
travelling over 5000 miles through the
SIX richest farming states OF the mid
die west, made the best average for
consumption OF gasoline. oil and water
according TO the Bannock Motor Sales
company. 1t travelled the same rough
ROADS and carried its share Of the over
loads from soft fields as the other par
tlcIpants. the truck was u Maxwell.
A stock one ana half ton truck was
taken from production without prelim-
mary tuning up" and placed in the
long demonstration tour in competition
win the best in America. 1t traversed
some OF the worst roads in the country,
over plowed fields and in country lanes,
at times hauling many hundred pounds
excess of its rated capacity and made
la remarkable record.
me .aXwell came through without
the ne, \ II mechanical adjustment and
the p.s ooAJ pneumatic tires which
carried the truck looked at the finish
as though they had not been run over
100 miles.
GAS AND OIL RECORDS.
Records available show that the
Maxwell averaged slightly under Is
miles to the gallon OF gas, over 1900
miles to the gallon OF oil, and 1873 miles
to the gallon of water.
The gas and OH records, which
we understand were from one to five
gallons better than the average, are
good under the most favorable condi-
tons" say the Bannock Motor Sales
company. but we consider them ex-
ceptional when it is considered that
the truck carried loads of potatoes out
of soft fiaIds n ha1IIad atQ
of wheat from field to thresher, hur-
ried overloads of milk from farm to
shipping points, and otherwise demon
strated its usefulness under all condi
! tons 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 pleasure car
| Near Fargo, N. D., Percy Gibbs,
driver of the truck, made his most diff
! ficult demonstration. From the Sohro-
eder 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 general merchandise were
carried at different times during the
tour, proving the Maxwells versatil-
ity.
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 coun-
try and who aserts 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 We're held and many
subsequent sales resulted. This con
firms the belief that when the Amer
lean farmer realizes the advanta ses
of motorizing his acreage he will bt
one of the largest purchasers of motor
trucks in the country"