Salt Lake Tribune | 1915-03-14 | Page 24 | Enormous Racing Project Planned

Emus no PiMPUSlED Maxwell Company Placing Seven Cars in Greatest Racing Events For several years past the automobile automo-bile races on various tracks through out this country and abroad have attracted at-tracted universal attention and inter est. Racers have won and lost. Drivers have made names for themselves or have been forgotten The speed mania has seized the American public and today to-day the car with the speed and the ab hty to win holds the pnbl c favor The season of 1914 has been an un usual one Cars hitherto unknown in the racing field have become famous Among these undoubtedly the most talkedof is the Maxwell Making a sensational finish in the n nth place among a field of thirty American and foreign ears at Indianapolis the Max well shared honors with the winner of the race. It was the case of the green racing car against the most experienced and most successful racers in the auto-mob auto-mob le world Later on at Tacoms, Wash a Maxwell racer won the Pot latch trophy for 200 miles Hill-chrab records nave been broken and endnr ance tests won by ord nary stock Max well 2os Oldfeld in a Maxwell racer at Corona broke the world s non stop record, covering more than 300 miles without a single stop and winning second place in the race Aga n at Point Lotna San Diego CaL, BiHy Carlson in another Maxwell racer won second place breaking Oldf eld s Tee ord by travel ng 30o miles without a stop over one of the most difficult race courses In the Un ted States And now at the beginn ng of an other season with these triumphs to spur them on the Maxwell Motor com pany has decided to enter the racing arena), as no company hag entered it be fore W th the determined and exper enced Ray Harronn as the moving spirit in the enterprise the Maxwell company will manufacture seven racing cars for the com ng season Harroun with b intimate knowledge of racers and his construct ve ab 1 ty will superintend the construct on of the cars and win be permanently connected with the Maxwell company In the capacity of ch ef engineer This fact alone fore tells success for the product of his genius