Show TEST OF OVERLAND AUTOMOBILES STRENUOUS Cars Are Driven Over All An 11 Kinds of Roads and i in n nAll All Weathers the Browning Automobile company compan was last week b by as ns husky a of tf l khaki clad braves eJ as pioneered through trails behind the steering wheel j of f an automobile an and for two or three days lays tho the Browning salesrooms and shops chops hop were scenes cenes of or buS busy activity what with overhauling o changing tires and making makInI out detail reports on oat mechanical condi condl condition tion ton of ot Bears c and taking out new sup sup- plies of ot oil and gasoline It was a a. mighty lively I ely time while it lasted The occasion for these big bib doln's was waa the he arrival al of William II R. McCulla In Sri chars charge of ot a squad of Overland Willys-Overland factory experts who are piloting a a. bunch of oC f new model productions of or the Willys Overland verland factory around the the- country on onlest test est runs McCulla Is 13 accompanied by L. L K Snell Snelland Snelland and Lad W W. W T. T Hunt associate Over Willys s O land and en engineers and expert Mack lack Relit Reilly Marbray Marriott and Edwards Edwards Ed Ed- Edwards wards and this section of ot tho the party vart Is Ison Ison on nn the wa way back to tho the factory facton via the Lincoln hl highway h a with four of ot the tho Willys Willys- Overland verland test cars Tho The party according to McCulla sUrte started start start- e ed ti from the Overland Willys factory five lve weeks ago alo tho the outfit consisting of ot one ty-one cars with and expert engineers as well en as a full and complete moving picture outfit to record all In Incidents ln- ln serious as well wen as amusing At N. N M. M 1 the tho party separated Into several groups each group roup taking a different direction so that hat the tho twenty one te test t cars wo ld re receive re- re I dye the a roost t ost gruelling kind of ot work on in every class of oC road to bo be found Inthe in the tho country and according to McCulla his its party seems seem to havo have got the worst of oC if its as he reports the roads Nevada almost impassable E K H. H Selden chief engineer of or the Overhand d factory factor accompanied the he part party to Los An Angeles eles from whence It t proceeds pack back ack without the chief These test lest cars have been subjected to o eVer every possible trial an and have been lIeen treated rested n a great deal more roughly rouS-llly than the tho or ordinary automobile would ever be in n order that any an weak points or de defects defects de- de In ht mechanism would be brou brought ht out and nd rectified McC McCulla ulla reports that so far not a partIcle particle par par- idle of trouble has developed eloped excepting ordinary tiro wear and other mishaps that hat might occur to an any car on roads as s the party has been heen ne negotiating The cars have havo worked at all nIl altitudes from below sea level McCulla having driven riven one o of these test cars Into tho ocean cean until It was as entire entirely submerged at Lone ong Beach an and from this minus tu tude ude e up to a a. weight height of oC l SOO feet on the Pal aloes e peak road where tho the cars were forced to turn back on account of or midwInter midwinter mid mid- winter inter snow drifts It has been a hard exciting trip throughout and the party of boys bos who whore are re taking taking- the cars carlt through h are bronzed I and nd hard as nails nalls from hard driving an and exposure This Is IB McCulla's twenty first trip from tram coast to coast on test runs tots his last trip Laving having been made with a ton seven-ton truck ruck Manager Arch Browning would give give- giveout Ie out no io Information with respect to the new Overland Willys-Overland models now being tested but ut stated that the public would undoubtedly edl edly receive a genuine surprise within the next ext few weeks when the test crews nave nil all 11 returned to tho the factory and reports have avo been tabulated and an any corrections made Lade which the engineers decide are nee nee- essary Then said Browning I believe auto fans Ins are going oln to get a a. genuine eye eye- opener pener opener opener-at at least what I 1 have seen so sotar tar far Ir has teemed seemed almost unbelievable but unbelievable but w wo re will l let t the tho public Judge for tor Itself when hen tho the proper time comes |