The Washington herald., 1921-09-18

arrived in the city yesterday after
having covered about 1000 miles OF
an overland cruise which is to con-
tinue for about eighteen months
longer.
The foundation of this travelling
bungalow is a one-ton GMC truck.
Upon the chassis Mr.. Lloyd had
built a body of unusually large di-
mension, being feet wide by l6
feet long. The unique arrange
ment of locker and furniture fur
nishings really makes 1t an inter-
changeable five-room house-with
the feature of having each room
the full size of the floor space.
Electric lights, running water,
fireless cooker and facilities for
doing Photographic work are
among the comforts provided in
this peripatetic home.
AS a result OF overwork in the
busy editorial rooms of his home
city. Lloyd faced a doctors verdict
of "a year in the open." and, TO
gether with his family .is takink
this way of filling the doctors pre-
scription. Tentative plans for the
cruise, which Lloyd denominates as
"Snailing the U. S. A." indicate
travel through thirty-six States,
over about 10000 miles of road.
To obviate the necessity Of an
swering the same questions thou
sands of times, Lloyd has prepared
folder containing 101 answers.
which is distributed along the way
But" says Lloyd, 'l01 questions
do not fill the bill; We shall soon
have to issue a supplementary list
Of another 100 which have been
propounded since We started from
Memphis July 13."
When asked why he made use Of
truck chassis for his motive
power. instead OF utilizing a pas
senger car as is usually done.
Lloyd said: Our decision was
made upon the record the one-ton
GMC made in ambulance service
during the war. The K-16 model,
which We use is the successor Of
the standard ambulance q assis for
the United States army in France
and We chose it because we felt
that on this trip We could en-
counter no difficulties which its
predecessor did not negotiate sue
cessfully in army service during
the war. In this expectation we
have not been disappointed, for we
have already encountered road con-
ditions which must have greatly
resembled the shell-torn terrain Of
the allied front.
Although our load Is rather
heavy 1--WE weighed more than
three and one-half tons at the
staro, we are agreeably surprised
at the mileage we get from our
gasoline. We keep a daily log of
operation cost and from that record
find that we have been averaging
better than ten and one-half miles
to the gallon of gas, regardless of
the absence of good roads over a
large portion OF our trip thus far.
Our lowest record was eight miles
to the gallon. in the region of the
Kentucky caves. where the roads
are not worthy the name. Our best
record was fourteen and five
eighths miles to the gallon. on the
level stretch of good highway be-
tween Cincinnati and Columbus,
Ohio"
While in Washington Mr.. LLOYD
and party are the guests OF Mr..
Jerome Fancuilli. of the General
Motors Truck Company of wash
ington.
Lloyd voices one great factor Of
grief In connection with his equip
ment-says that he always has
been too precipitate and in too
much of a hurry-his grief laying
IN the fact that the price on the
GMC one-ton truck chassis was re-
duced $500 about two weeks after
he had secured his equipment