Arizona republican., 1921-03-24

lived at the local postoffice were: J. Albert Giffen, superintendent of mails; Assistant Postmaster Lee F. Callahan; representatives of the local press, M. P. Barrett and Charles J. Pottberg of Barrett X Pottberg. Inc the local Stu debaker distributors. and a small group of friends who had been let into the secret that the test run was to be made.
 The Phoenix police department co operated by regulating traffic 10 fla Cilitate the passage of the mail car from the city limits to the post office
 While the little Studebaker six was out to make a record. and did, the significant feature of the run, assert those who examined the car after it's arrival is not so much the terrific speed it accomplished as the fact that the machine withstood successfully the most gruellinS test any car can be put to. It was in condition to inHediately start back Ao the coast. The passen- gers needed overhaulng
 Those who drove the car are not professional racing drivers-merely red -blooded men who enjoy a thrill- who love their ear and willingly stake their lives on it's integrity and eudur- ance. All those who made the run yes terday insist that TO other stock car ever put on the market at any price could have survived so successfully the breaking punishment the Studebakcr light six went through. Many times when d chuCkhole was hit all four wheels were off the ground at once as the little car literally flew through sDace-only 10 come down with shatteriug force on the next hi-H spot. How wood and steel and baar- ings continued to function under one blow of that sort after another. as the car sped on it's way. can be explained only in the excellence of Ihp material Is used and the nicety or adjustments in the workmanship found in the car.
 How the machine I1a.utaiuc] it's TO maTkable speed average oyer the mis- erably rough stretches of road which it encountered is a mystery But it did Threading its way around the maze like turns in the desert trail. blowing through long strips Of sand, pick ing its path along the dry river bot tom. on og,aslou the little six never f1ltered-
 Motorists who have driven oyer the Ehreuberg- Blythe route to Los An eelcs realize what manner of road the Studebakcr mail oar conquered jtt making it's record. The trip must have been made quite recently for the con- ditions 10 be fully appreciated Those who have made the trip know that there could not have been much finger ing along the way; that there could be no easing of cars that every part of the machine must. of necessity Ea1u fmcJiOued perfectly tn have s-. .e=-- fully withstooG the graeLlirc teat
 Tourists who have made the Iuu hr that route recently report that 1t Is the worst going they have found any where on their travels. Among tbos. who have SO stated are. AII. and lTr-. Herman x. Nelson and NIr and Mrs Prank nI- ~toei5u.. both Of NValoo Mob. who are completing . -0ho-mus tour or tho country and Mr. and N--. M i- Fo]t1 of EsHer Etu1E- low. vHo ra o. tns H-l ..a ul a su..-m... ..
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