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Show CAW TRAVEL FUSST WITH MORE SAFETY Twelve-cylinder Car Has Done Much to Further Reasonable Speed. "The twelve-cylinder motor car today has raised the points of safety in speed," says Sales Manager Olson of the Kandall-Dodd Auto company of this city, distributors of the "Highway 12." In speaking of these points of safety in speed yesterday, Olsen said: The smooth and powerful operation opera-tion of the twelve-cylinder motor has niado it possible to travel today to-day at the rate of forty miles per hour on a pood highway in safety. Ten years ago a speed of twenty miles an hour was the safety point, taking into consideration the construction con-struction of the motor car at that time. Five years ago the improvements improve-ments and refinement in automobile designing had brought this point of safety up to a thirty-mile limit; " there it stood until the development, of the twelve-cylinder car. To force & car of ten years ago, even if new today, to sustain a forty-mile speed would nteun taking chances with accidents. The construction con-struction and design of cars of that time could not keep up such a pace without some of the component parts of construction giving way. The same could almost be said of some of the cars five years ago, for the reason that ears were not so well balanced and the lesser number num-ber of cylinders demanded greater strain to produce such a sustained speed. .Today, however, with the twelve-cylinder, twelve-cylinder, quick-starting and quick-stopping quick-stopping is possible, and at the same time a high rate of speed can be sustained within the safety zone of operation. The increased number of cylinders gives a smoothness of action and application of power that counteracts the bad effects to be found in cars of yesterday. It is hard to realize, unless one has toured in a twelve-cylinder car. - Then its great possibilities are appreciated, ap-preciated, when one sees that this point of safety sneed has been advanced ad-vanced at least ten miles bv this wonderful improvement in the design de-sign of motor car engines. |