The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1926-06-30

climbing superiority, for speed
The acknowledged important hill
climbing championship contest is
| the national A. A. A. hill climb,
which is held annually at Pixies
Peak, Colorado Springs, COL, men
toned Mr., Hendrick.
pixies Peak is the highest motor
mountain climb in the world. For
twelve and a half miles the road
winds tortuously, in and out around
precipitous bends and hairptn
curves to the summit of this
mighty mountain.
yet Chandler smashed all previ-
GUS time marks up this noted climb
and established new world record
by making the amazing time Of
IL minutes 4s 2-5 seconds.
"T'his achievement bids fair to
stand for many years to come.
The new Chandler records clipped
nearly a half minute from the
previous mark, and Chandler was
almost a full minute ahead of the
second best car that competed
against it.
"Yet this achievement, important
as it is, is not by any means the
extent of Chambers championship
performance. Chandler holds other
records that are equally impressive
and equally difficult continued
Mr.. Hendrick.
1,OOO-MiIe Record Chambers
No one can dispute the remark
able speed and durability record
made at the Culver City, CAL, race
track.
'.Ffere stock Chandler Comrade
roadster with special gear ratio
Travelled 1000 miles in the aston
lishing time of $50 minutes at an
average speed of S6.9 miles per
| hour.
TO fully appreciate this remark
| able performance, just imagine an
automobile averaging nearly eighty
seven miles an hour from dawn
| to dusk, for eleven and one-half
an average, Chandler had to exceed
tain its average speed per mile OF
41.3 seconds.
"Yet even this Is not all, con.
tinued Mr.. Hendrick. Chandler
has made many other records
| which attest its performance
supremacy.
II
! touring car. carrying three pass.
enRers In addition to the driver,
captured two famous trophies and
shattered all previous records by
ascending further In high gear than
any other car has yet been able
to go.
1 chandler won the Alexander cl,D.
exceeding by 100 feet the best mark
made by any six.cylinder car, re.
gardless of price.
At the same time. Chandler won
the Oakland Tribune trophy (which
was contested for by cars of any
number OF cylinders1 by going So
4 feet further in high gear than the
best mark previously made by a
i twelve-cyIinder car.
i New Continental Divide Record
i Again at Priests Pass near
Helena, Mont, stock Chandler
TOURING car with standard gear ratio
gave Spectacular proof Of its high
gear hill SUPREMACY.
i starting at point $500 feet
above the sea level. and ending al
the top OF Continental divide. The
record smashing Chandler set new
record of 1914 minutes.
THE only other car that has ever
climbed this tortuots road in high
gear was specially prepared car
stripped Of its top. its windshield
and running boards, and with its
exhaust pipe shot out from the side
OF the hood.
/ '.At Mt. washington. the highest
accessible peak east of the Rockies
i a stock Chandler touring caI
smashed another record.
The previous record for this ia
nous eight-mile climb to the
clouds established IN 1905 by {
i specially built racing carl stood fol
eight years before Chandler clipped
nearly four minutes from it,
Foreign Records Smashed, Too
"These American records arr
noteworthy enough, but Chandler
has few foreign marks tina
clearly prove the superiority o.
our American built product ovei
the finest machines of the Ok
World" continued Mr.. Hendrick
I'm the 120-n1ile Bombay-Poons
reliability run held in Iidia, Chan
der triumphed over % competing
cars, of which nine were Ameri
can.
| Chandler won the Trophy Cul
for excellence in acceleratton, thu
four.mile hill climb, four-nile aver
1 age speed test, as well as for re
liability over the 120.mile distance
which covered many steep noun
tain trails.
I'm this contest Chandler wa
the only car to compile perfec
score of 200 points. That the con
test was a. thoroughly severe on
may be imagined when ! tell yol
that the British Rolls Royce wa
awarded a silver medal for secont
place.
Another noteworthy Chandle
victory was the winning of tn
1925 annual flexibility contes
held by the Royal Automobile Clul
of Australia.
Here Chandler compiled a CRANE
total score of 2,247.73 points il
competition against % other cars
and gained first place by the wild
margin of $50 points.
This 1925 triumph in the Aus
tralian flexibility contest was
duplication of the 1923 and 1872
| contacts which Chandler also won