Salt Lake Tribune | 1916-12-24 | Page 15 | Cadillac Climbs Mountain on High

CADILLAC CLIMBS MOUNTAIN ON HIGH ; Negotiates Ten Miles to Summit of Mt. Diablo Without Gear Change. Carrying four passengers, a photographer's photogra-pher's outfit, a spare tire and with all tanks practically full, a Cadillac Eight recently climbed Mount Diablo, in California, Cali-fornia, on high gear, thus establishing a record. The climb is ten miles long and the Cadillac is the first motor car ever to make it on high gear when carrvinff more than one pasenrpr. The total weight of the passengers was 706 pounds. Reports from &an Francisco say the car negotiated the climb with such ease that it is believed it could have carried its capacity of seven persons. per-sons. Motoring circles in the California metropolis me-tropolis regard it as a hard demonstration demonstra-tion for a car to climb Mount Diablo on high with only one passenger. At all times during its ascent the Cadillac had rcporve power, never being pressed to make the graae.