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Show KING 8 STANDS I WONDERFUL TEST Engine Runs 326 Hours of Continuous Driving, Car Travels 6584 Miles. GIVEN HIGH PRAISE Motor Was Not Wearied, but Men Who Drove the Auto Were Exhausted. ft AT, TIMORK. Mrl., fcrpi. 23. The latest achievement of the oi;,'hr-;yinder N'injr in c:i- owniTH service te-ts was accomplished in a noiimotor-stop run betueen Wanhingtnn ami Baltimore, hailing the popular motor car as herculean hercu-lean in motonlum. Ker 32ti continuous hours this eijlit-rylinler King, traveling trav-eling i,ry an. I nijiht, rolled off mileage jetTr?en I he two cities. - The test was finally halted because of exnanuion on the part of the drivern, the speedometer rcorriii) (i.'t.vt miies. The test was stuped by the King dealers in Jialtimorc and' Washington with iiptvs aper men from these two cities keeping constant vigil as observers. ob-servers. Carry Many Passengers. t When the far was sent ort on. this! i ' ' breakdown tfcst ' ' from Washington j i by Ooiigressin.'in Rritton of I llinois it, was tiie object to run seven days and ' ' njhts without stopping the motor over j ' if circuitous route between Baltimore I and Washington, a distance of eighty- five miles, thirty of which was in tra'f- fie of both cities and fifty-five miles' over country highwavs. In all cases' pa ste n g i rs were carried. The recent I sheetri showed that at times there were two, then other times three, four, five, sin or no en people in the car. The feat, was a duplication over the Baltimore-Washington highway of the non-i non-i stop motor record trip of the King on the Kbeepshead Bay track under the ! official sanction and supervision of the A m erica n A utomobile association. That greater mileage was not made was due to the amount of mileage through Bal- ! i timorc ami Washi ngtou traffic. Stock Car Is Used. The trip was in charge of newspapermen newspaper-men instead of the American Automobile Automo-bile association. It was one of the regular models taken from the showroom show-room of the Baltimore King dealer. Virtually all ki nris of weather conditions con-ditions were encountered during the test except snow. At times it was unusually hot, then again cold, and a great deal of rain drenched the driver I anil his passengers. Monte tiohn of the Washington Times, one of the observers in charge of the test, had this to say about it: The King was crowned with laurel lau-rel here. The tribute of Washington Washing-ton and Baltimore was generously given by the crowds which saw it j finish at the capitol one of tho most grueling tests to which' a motor mo-tor car may be subjected. Without, a pause in its mechanical mechan-ical effort, the eight-cylinder motor of the King purred and roared powerfully through its 326th hour as it came into Washington to its goal. At no time in the past two weeks has there been a flutter of constructive con-structive deficiency in the ceaseless performance of those steel vitals under un-der its hood. Wednesday afternoon, after-noon, when it became apparent, from (he missing of the engine, that l ' dirty gasoline was clogging the gas I line, the four newspaper referees granted the request of King officials offi-cials to permit the engine to bo I si opped long miough to clean out the tank. t contained a thick urn of sediment. Only One Delay. That sediment is deplorable. It canwd dim the splendor of a wonderful won-derful performance. But it hampered ham-pered for a few brief minutes , the tireless impulses of a powerful machine. ma-chine. 1 1 was as though someone had cast untrue aspersion on a sterling ster-ling character. There is no knowing how far the King might have gone without the failure of its motor. Strangely, Strange-ly, this man-made mac hi ne proves a theory. It proves the superiority superior-ity in this instance, at least, of mind over matter. Man built it from supermetals. Man drove it on its remarkable test. But. the product of his brain has proven irrgater than the endurance en-durance of his physical self, for the" test was terminated only because be-cause two drivers fell ill and the remaining two could not-4 continue, because of double burden and sheer exhaustion. Race, speed, track records what are these things beside the sterling proof of the road? The newer era of things is not of wild, reckless speed. Its classification class-ification in the file of life is that ever-growing folder under the. Ts. Touring is its caption. And in that folder King will have a prominent prom-inent place well merited, certainly deserved. |