The Lakeland evening telegram. (Lakeland, Fla.) 1911-1922, 1920-07-19
OVERLAND STARTED
TODAY ON A DASH
TO The COAST
Epoch Making Demonstration to
Be Made In Relay Run on
Lincoln Highway

New York, July 19.-To determine
for the automobile industry and the
motor buying public the comparative
merits of the lightweight car as re-
CARDS its stamina and economy in a
continued run of $500 miles with a
relay Of rs drivers at the wheel,
trans-continental economy run was
started from New York last night at
midnight, Sunday, July 18th.
he car will travel day and night
continuously until at the end Of the
journey It noses it's way down Market
street in San Francisco. Eleven
states will be spaniel. Throughout
the journey careful and constantly
checked tally will be kept of the oil
end gasoline used to determine ma
tional measure Of esonomy and STAN
ina for the light weight motor car.
The official route has been an
nounced. The car will follow in the
main the Lincoln Highway from New
York City to San Francisco. 1t left
New. York at midnight Sunday, July
18th,
The route will take the car through
Philadelphia. Harrisburg, Pittsburgh,
Canton, Fort Wayne, Chicago Heights,
Cedar Rapids, Des Moines, Omaha
North Platte, Cheyenne, Rock Springs,
! Salt Lake City, REM and Sacramento
The surprising feature of the ties.
is the fact that the stock car chosen
Tor the run will be driven for the
most part by drivers who have had
no previous experience with this car
AS the car approaches the territory
OF an Overland distributor it will be
turned over to man selected by the
distributor in that territory who will
drive to the line of his neighbOrine
distributor territory. Thus the cal
will be subjected to wide variety in
methods of driving AMI it's gasoline
and oil consumption record can b.
freely accepted as record which
any careful driver could attain.
Observers will trail the standard
setting Overland in another car.
The Overland will then be relayet
across the United States, lifferen
driver taking the wheel in each Over
land distributors territory traversed
i This relay driving is new featur
in automobile runs. The territory 0
at least rs Overland distributors will
be crossed. This will provide at leas
rs different drivers for the car. Non
Of these men will ever before have sa
\ at the wheel OF this Overland. No tw'
men drive alike. The importance o
the test, therefore, will be a lemon
stration of what the average drive
could expect to get in low-cost opera
tion in a 3,300-mile drive, taking hin
4 through all conditions Of weather AM
over roads that vary from the asphal
Of city streets to treacherous mountain
trails.
i The highly skilled and expert con
test drivers ability to get an extr'
mile from the last drops of gasolin
! will be replaced in this run by tn
| common fortunes of the average mo
j torist.
The Overland run is expected t,
/ answer several questions of immediate
interest to the auto public. First
How much gas will be neeled to carr,
this car in a run almost equal to
years usage by the average driver
| Second: How much oil will be needle,
properly to Intricate the mechanism
and keep it, as far as fabrication can
trouble-free? Third: Isn't it true tina
the light car has now been so devel
oped and perfected that it is not onl
ideal for quick handling nd economi
cal use in the tangled city traffic bu
that it also has all the stamina neces
sary for the toughest ans-continen
tai travel with no sacrifice of it
economy advantages?
666 has proven 1t will cure Malaris
Chills and Fever, Bilious Fever
Colds and LaGrippe. 1t kills tn
germs that cause the fever. Fin
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