Salt Lake Herald-Republican | 1918-05-26 | Page 57 | Chalmers Hot Spot through Snow and Mud in Hard Test

Chalmers Hot Hoi Spot Through Snow and Mud in ill Hard Test TestA A Chalmers was the tite first car to 10 go o through Crawford Notch New Hampshire Hamp Hamp- shire this season aton and In ill making the trip It proved worth worthy of or ad nd- nd mira lion The trip was mo most l unusual un- un usual Inasmuch as great real quantities of snow now und anti mud were encountered and it rained ruined throughout th the tle journey Journe It was as a i surprise tp IQ the party part to find tho the ground U at the Flume House covered ered with snow hilt but it continued its wa way through Bethlehem arriving at nt the time Mount Washington hotel at in tho the m.- m. morning Large arge and dep snowdrifts 5 blocked the way a from Bretton Woods to the I Crawford House and tho the going was ver very difficult difficult- ko No o vehicle had b been en through to break breal out a path The car had to make Its is own path and then go o on Sturdily tho the ear car would I buck huele Into drifts like a battering ram I I It would male make a little he headway dwa and I I then with another good Jool start would I I make nake further gains Into the tho drift As Ion long n a 11 the rear wheels were able to secure traction the car would tackle anything but hut when hen the power could not nol be he applied when the snow slow was so deep It would pack pad underneath the chassis raising raisins the tile rear wheels from Crom the ground it va was found necessary necessary sa sary 1 for tho the men to shovel ho snow Atone At Atone Atone one time the snow now was so deep that tha t tas as the men shoveled cled the car would simply settle settie down farther In order to surmount this difficulty the differential differential dif dif- was as locked I by Ly means of a rope tied tlell to th the left leCt hand rear and front wheels Then the rope on the I right hand side of or the car cai was tied to the forward part of the right rear I wheel thence to a tree The Tile clutch I was let In The wheel revolved o ie one one- I half halt a revolution The car pulled itself It Itself it- it self elf ahead a a alike like distance The rite car r I became clear of the drift after re repeating repeating re- re this performance once ort or I t twice I cc In the best of the tile touring season th the tite roads through h Int Intervale r al ton Fryeburg Frebur and Naples aples to Poland are admittedly tile tho worst wont roads In iii that rc region lon but hut never were vere the roads maCis In such such a condition as on that da day The Tue frost was sas just coming out of or the ground round The mud was a sl sight ht to be behold be- be hold At the tue foot ool of hills hilIs the tue water wlter had settled In ponds pond The car was ru rushed ruined hed through h at the hc best hest t speed possible Mud ane and water waler splashed hed in ever every direction The car was delu deluged ed edwith with dirty water and mud It still rained hard hut but undaunted the tho car made for fOl Poland At times the mud I was so EO deep and soft sort the wheels l set settled set set- tied lIed and the chassis of the car left a andge ridge e on Oil the road I Not a lit hit of mechanical trouble was experienced during durin th the entire journey journe I From start to finish pot a single Ie I spark plug was way changed It was not necessary to tighten a single nut The I performance of or the tho car was perfect I It Jt went through snowdrifts and mud In a most admirable manner The rile car I wen went over y r the top top I