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Show Hudson super-six ' sets new record Car Makes Trip From San Francisco to New York in 5 Days, 3 Hours, 59 Min. LONG WAY AHEAD Carried Three and Some-times Some-times Four Passengers on. Its Wonderful Trip. A 1 hid son Super-Six, stuck chassis, driven by Ralph Mulf'ord ami two other well-known men in the automobile world, has broken the oceau-to-ocean transcontinental automobile record. The Super-Six made the trip from San Francisco to New York in fiv days, tliree hours and fifty-nine minutes, ar-A ar-A riving in New York last Monday. t Such was the announcement flashed yover the wires of the Associated Tress and other news services last Monday a few moments after the Super-Six rolled down Broadway after having bfat the best previous transcontinental trip by fourteen hours and fifty-three minutes. That the Hudson's new feat has created cre-ated a veritable sensation in the automobile auto-mobile world is putting the fact rather mildly, according to Frank Botterill, manager of the Tom Botterill Automobile Automo-bile companv of Salt Lake, who yesterday yester-day received, full details from the Hudson Hud-son factory of the. splendid record made by the Super-Six. Car Heavily Loaded. The seven -passenger phaeton model Hudson chassis was used for the trip mid the Hudson did not seek to reduce its carrying capacity. In fact, at nil y times three and sometimes four passengers pas-sengers were carried, as well as baggage, bag-gage, which brought the weight of the -ar, loaded, up to approximately 5000 pounds. Three drivers piloted the car in these 4 great tests of endurance. A. H. Patterson, Pat-terson, the Hudson dealer at Stockton, ('ah, started the trip, driving from San Francisco to Klko, Nev., 578 miles. The schedule called for the completion of the trip into New York in five days and ten hours. Patterson climbed over the Sierra Nevada mountains, crossing the divide at an altitude of almost 9d00 feet and cut his schedule six and a half hours. At Flko Ralph Mulford took the wheel and for thirty hours drove across the desert. He said the terrible mo- no tony of that drive, the sun and the dust, 'was more exhausting than his twenty-four-hour drive, when he made '! the world's record in the Hudson Super-Six Super-Six chassis, traveling 1S19 miles. SBotterill Goes Part Way. vMr. Botterill, in the Hudson Snper-.. Snper-.. iSix roadster in which he and Mrs. Bot- t terill reeentl' crossed the continent, met Mulford and the transcontinental car at Ogden and went through with ' him to Evanston, Wyo. Patterson a train took the wheel of the transcontinental car at Laramie, "Wyo., and drove the Super-Six over the Rocky mountain range and across Nebraska Ne-braska into Omaha. The car left Omaha, with Mulford driving, eight hours ahead of time. In Iowa Mulford came over the brow of a hill at sixty miles an hour and Raw dead ahead of him a bridge on which a herd of cattle blocked his way. He had to decide quickly whether he should go over the embankment into inevitable; death or take his chances on running into the cattle. He chose the latter and killed two cows. That de- layed him almost three hours. But despite de-spite this stop he made the river-to-river record across Iowa and drove on into South Bend, Tnd., where Charles 11. Vincent took the wheel. Vincent drove from 12 o'clock midnight Fridav all the way into New York City, 910 miles, arriving in New York on Monday Mon-day morning at 6:32. He had to pass through more towns than the other drivers and still maintained thirty-four w miles an hour. Endurance Is Feature. The Hudson company has maintained all along that the Super-Six, because of the absence of vibration, has more 'w endurance than is possible with any V")ther type of car, and this trip was ' made to demonstrate that fact. Now the Hudson holds the transcon-p transcon-p tin en till record, the twenty-four-hour record, the world's greatest hill climb, the record for having traveled the greatest distance with fully equipped seven -passenger car carry in? five pas-sengers, pas-sengers, and the fastest miles over a measured course with a stock chassis. |