The Delta independent., 1925-02-06
STEEL DUPLEX
TOP SAVES LIVES
Recent Accident East of City Calls
Attention to Fact that Fourteen
Lives Were Saved in Four
Accidents.

Four separate instances in which
the Duplex body on the new Stude-
bakers have saved the lives of passen-
gers in cars which turned off the
roadway and rolled over and over
down steep embankments have been
reported. confirming the great safe
ty factor these bodies give.
The steel Duplex already has
saved more than half a score of lives.
according to reports received at the
factory.
At Durango, Colo, Patrick Kelly
of Chama, N. NJ, was driving with
four friends in a Standard SIX Du-
plex-Phaeton. The car rolled over the
edge of a bluff and rolled 6S feet to
the bottom, turning over and over.
With Mr.. Kelly were five passeng-
ers. Their joint report of the pre-
cipitious plunge down the hillside
concluded:
mo one in the car was injured"
Imagine any other open type car
rolling down a 6S-foot embankment
and not injuring anyone!
Again, at Louisiana, Mo, ]. E.
Jennings of Pleasant Hill, Mo, and
three others were driving in a Stand.
ard Six Duplex-Phaeton. They stop
ped on the edge of a 16-foot bank
at the approach to a bridge, to let
traffic pass.
The embankment gave away, letting
the car roll over to the bottom. One
man in the car jumped out and was
hurt. The others escaped injury of
any kind.
Once more: William Hile of Horn
brook, California, was driving down
the canon road between Hornbrook
and Eureka, California, after an un-
usually long, hard days work. So ex-
hausted was he that he fell asleep at
the wheel of the easy-driving Stand
ard Six Duplex-Phaeton.
The car left the road, rolled over
twice down the canon side and came
to rest at the bottom, wheels in air
Mr.. Hile was unhurt
The Chester n. Weaver Company,
San Francisco, turned it right side
up and drove it to the service station,
where it was found that the only
damage done was a cracked wind
shield and one steel roof crossbeam
bent Seven men stood upon the roof
of the car to show that it still possess
ed it's original strength.
Here's another instance:
Bradley Saunders, returning TO
Kansas City from Lawrence, Kansas,
was compelled to turn sharply from
the road to avoid another car com
ing out of a side road at a high rate
of speed. He was unable to bring
the car back in the narrow space
available, and the Special Six Duplex
Phaeton rolled over into the ditch,
making two complete turns.
Neither Mr. Saunders nor any of
the four men with him was injured
Nothing could illustrate more for
chilly the sturdiness and strength of
the Duplex body-steel framed and
steel shaped-which in these four
instances saved the lives Of fourteen
passengers
Every person who remained in the
car escaped injury The only man
hurt was the one who jumped from
the security Of the steel-framed body
into the danger Of tumble down
an embankment.
In recent accident on the paved
road east of Grand Junction the
Studebaker was found resting on its
top. The strong all-steel construction
Of the top undoubtedly saved the
lives OF the six occupants.
The wrecked car is now on display
in our show room at Sixth and Main.
Call in and examine It.
SHAW MOTOR COMPANY.