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Show WHAT A FRANKLIN CAR PERFORMED IN HILLS A test of Efficiency such as an automobile auto-mobile is seldom subjected lo was successfully suc-cessfully undergone not long- ago by a motor car belonging to G. C "Wagjici' of Taconin, "Wash. Thai was when It towed a heavy stranded touring car for twenty-eight miles .over mountain roads. Mr. Wagner has an elglneen-horscpowcr air-cooled Franklin of J000 model, which he was driving at the lime he was hunting hunt-ing iu tho mountains. Eight or ten miles awav from where ho "happened to be another an-other motor car had stripped Its gears, and an appeal for help was sent to Mr. Wagner. The latter thought that, ns the owner of a motor car weighing about 1700 pounds lie might wlih good rftasou have refused to attempt the tow of a 'JfiOO-pound 'JfiOO-pound automobile, but after hesitating he decided to givo his car a trial. "1 hooked my car on their car." he said afterwards, in describing the Incident, In-cident, "and towed dheni - nventy-eliflit miles, over ipotintaiiv roads In two- autr three quarter's hours, and still my car wo.i not overheated, despite the fact that a low and Intermediate gear was used al! the time. There must have been place. of fifteen or twenty per cent grade, but short. Their car hud lhri-e men weighing weigh-ing over .00 pounds each, and two deer and rump cftilpnieni. and I hod foiuvmen and camp equipment." |