Douglas daily dispatch., 1927-07-30
CHRYSLER MADE
CLEAN sweep IN
AFRICAN CLIMB

What Chrysler officials regard as
being in many respects the most.
signal triumph OF the many their
scored in the 1927 Mulder's Drift
hill climb of the TranSvaal Automo-
bile club, according to detailed adj
vices just received at the office Of
J. T. Hood Chrysler dealer in Doug
! las.
This hill climb RANKS as the out
standing meet among all South
African automobile sporting fixtures
and the reports show that Chtysler
cars fairly swept the boards, land
| ing five first places, three seconds,
and one sixth. Chryslers won every
event in which could enter.
| -Four of the five first prizes went
| to George Harper, whose victories in
| last years hill climb had already
| brought him SO close to permanent
possession of the handsome trophies
offered in these annual trials that
| this year he was able to clinch his
| title to two of them. He now holds
as his own the magnificent Saker
| Rose Bowl, offered for hill climbing
competition among both profession
ais and amateurs, as well as the
/ Chrysler cup donated for trials in
| which only amateurs were eligible.
Conditions required that these troph-
les must be won by the same driver
! two years in succession to entitle
! him to claim them.
| Harpar's car this year was a
J Chrysler "7c" which had nearly TO-
OG0 miles on its speedometer, and
the reports from South Africa add
the interesting information that
apart from carbon removal it has
never needed mechanical attention
Of any kind.
In addition to winning the Saker
Rose Bowl and the Chrysler cup,
Harper and his ''7O" this year took
first place in the Connock cup
event, open to amateurs only. The
same '7O" was driven by Miss NJ
Cowie to first place in the Crossley
cup event, open to lady drivers only,
Miss Cowie. in another 80" fin
ished second to Harper i'll the
! Chrysler cup.
Still another Chrysler "70" figures
! prominently in the hill climb, the
reports Indicate This was the first
Chrysler "70" landed in the Trans
vaal and like Mr. Harpers car
throughout it's entire history it has
never had anything done to its ma
chinery except to have carbon re-
moved Driven by E. j. George, this
car took third place in the Saker
Rose Bowl and the Chrysler cup
events. Mrs. ]. Millin, another
! Chrysler entrant, captured the. re-.
naming place iTs the Chrysler galaxy
of honors by finishing second to
Miss Cowie in the Crossley cup race
and coming in fifth in the Chrysler
cup trials.
! To cap this long array of Chrysler
victories, Mr. Harper, Miss CoIie,
MI. George and Mrs. Millin .rarI
away with the honors in the class j.
trials for cars above 5000 cubic
centimeters, the classification in which
! the Chryslers were. ASSIGNED under
the. rules Of the competition. Here
they added to the Chrysler string
for the day first, second, third and
sixth places. Ht
The official score sheets record the
entry of large number of cars of
both American and European make
in the contests. While Chrysler
stands out as the leading name among
the winners it is noticeable that in
not single event of the day was
anything but an American car re-
corded in the first three places, and
| only one T11TOne0n entry WAS able
to finish as far up as fourth.