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Show NATIONAL POPULAR OH AILIHWAYS Twelve-cylinder Car Said to Have Superiority; Smooth-Running Smooth-Running Machine. Even owners of National cars are surprised sur-prised and delighted with the performance perform-ance of their machines, the most notable no-table examples of the super-ability of the National being demonstrated in the various national resorts and canyons along the nation's holiday highways. Yellowstone park, especially, has been the mecca for every possible make of automobile this season, and the road through this world-famous beauty spot is known to put any make of automobile through its best paces. Proof of the National s power and endurance comes daily from all parts of the country. For instance, Wales Manager Olson of the Randall-Dodd Auto company, local distributors of the National oar, receives word from Jn-j Jn-j dianapolis that Taber hill, Indiana's most stubborn preeipire, has been con- (jiicrcil. .Inhnny Aitltcn, of the Specd-vn Specd-vn v f nine, drove a Nal ional twrl very ve-ry Under en r "up und over" on liih iri-iir. In iew of tho many jircvailiji liih-f,'"nr KtunlH and pcrformnnccH, lliis achievement of Aitlwn 's sonndM very common, but anions those who aro t'n miliar with the most ditTicult )iilln in the renin ( rv thin perf'orinanre Ihih a special spe-cial Hinifn-ance. There is no irc ions record uf any automobile havii.R oa ovir Taber hill on h 1 jr 1 1 x-nr. (in ncconnt of its peculiar hlinpe and difVicull Krade, Taber is a favorite testing test-ing place for many Indiana factoricM, part ieula i ly in experimental work wlieri' the trv out must be ro much iftore Hevere than 'any possible tests that ran bo Livon a car in every day uso. For vearn if lias lieen t.Im practice of tho National Motor Vehicle company to send experimental earn tliero, but never before has a National pone over Taber on high iicnr, and National cars have a rather responsible reputation for power. Ailkrn's test was made with a regular regu-lar stork t welve rylintier ear, which had been in nervier for peveftil months. Tho fart that a twelve-cylinder car tshonld negotiate this hill on hih pear, when the Htrmiff, powerful National four-cylinder cars' of rarinp repute, which National Na-tional fireviously built, could not do so, I in a strong argument in favor of mul-tiplo-eylinder ronstruction. |