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Show JE byEgSersEsix Travels 175 Miles Through North Georgia Mountains in Blizzard. Breasting heavy snow drift and traveling trav-eling in a sharp blizzard for the entire distance, Homer George, Atlanta newspaper news-paper nvXn, recently hung up a new road record with his Chalmers Six-."0 by making mak-ing 175 miles at the rate of thirty-seven and a quarter miles per hour. Pulling out of Atlanta under fine weather conditions, cieort-'e planned to visit Ihtf towns of paltun. Rome and Calhoun Cal-houn on a buFinoHs trip. About twenty miles from the city he ran into a howlinjr blizzard, vhii:i increased in Intensity as he procerk-d. Tht- route led directly arons the North-Georgia mountains and the steep iiind-s added to the tests provided pro-vided by flipvery snow-covcred roads. "I have never driven a car which pulled through heavy goinp and up the steep piades in the way my Chalmers performed." per-formed." said George, in describing the I trip. "Throimh Hie mountains we drove ! as fast he .".5 miles per hour and on the ' slniiHtaway we added tun miles per hour to our speed at limes. 'e rarely trav- eled under thirty miles an hour except in towns. The snow drifts were so heavy tn places that we had to make several plunges before getting through. Outside of the remarkable power displayed by the Six-30, the outstanding feature of the car's performance was its wonderful balance bal-ance on the slippery roads and grades in the mouittains." The Chalmers Six-30 was the same car with which George broke the Atlanta-Chattanooga Atlanta-Chattanooga and the Jacksonville-Atlanta road records. |