Show I FRANKLIN HAS HASI I I UNIQUE FEATURES I Local Distributor Has W World orId of Praise for Engine Determined to prove pro for tor his own wn satisfaction at least that th the properly proper proper- ly h. constructed car Is as practicable practicable tourIst tourist tourist tour tour- for Cor touring purposes purpose as a 11 model Louis M. M stell mann of or tho the F Franklin Automobile company company's 8 en engineering on- on s staff took a anew new Franklin a 3 new brand motor over S Sedan nn with mth a trip of or miles mUes of oC the roughest goIng going go- go Ing he le could find Ho returned to I the tho factory with the tho car In as ns perfect perfect per per- I condition as when bo ho left leet and I Ithe the motor going better belter over every mile says Bays C. C W W. Newton e of oC the Franklin Motor Car company compan local distributors of or tho the Franklin automobile Mr Ir left lert tho the Franklin factory acton I at Syracuse with four persons and luggage a a. dead load of or more than 1000 pounds The speed of oC tho the car gradually increased as 38 the motor worked into its proper s sIn swing In and I when the tho first lap of oC the tho Journey ended ended end ond- ed w at New York Tork tho car was holding better better than fifty miles against a a ar r wind That satisfied tho the engineer that tho car was all right for straight touring but ho determined to punish It a little litlIe more moro by sending it over the hardest roads he ho could select Leaving New York ho he headed for tor forthe forthe the New Now England mountains Even roads first ov over r the rough country countr encountered It was wn Impossible to Impair Impair impair Im Im- im- im pair tho the superb riding qualities of the Sedan so 80 tho hardest test of or all aU was dev devised d. d and from Hartford Hartor Conn Mr Ir wheeled towards the tho Vermont Vermont Ver Ver- mont hills bills The first obstacle was a straight stretch of hills with the Ute roads Axle ulo deep in mud Tho The Franklin Sedan Sedan Se Se- dan dnn covered tho the entire 1 0 miles on low and second gear soar and the tho on only mishap was w-as on one ono bad stretch where the tho mud was so deep it scrape scraped off oft the fly wheel s guard Over Ocr all aU this the car was carrying the 1000 pounds pound dead load Mr Stellman was pretty nearl nearly satisfied satisfied sat sat- by this time but wanted ono one moro more test teat so be he headed up the Hoosick Hoo- Hoo sick mountains through a trail covered covered cov cov- ered cred with th three o Inches OC of sticky snow Practically tho the entire long lont grade was Wl negotiated in second gear sear With lith the tho certainty that there thero was WaI nothing else ho could do that he had not tried Mr r. r headed beaded back to the fac fac- ac- ac tory tOrT No car probably over ever had ko so severe se a n test An engineer familiar with every bit of or his engine Ine and car and deliberately trying to devise something to stop it It failed utterly Franklin production is Ss about 60 GO per perI percent percent cent cars and ono one reason realo for tor I this is the tho exceptional road Toad ability of all tho the models models- |