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Show MlSCf S TRIUMPH " STIRS AUTO WORLD Achievement of Super-six ' I' in Breaking Transcontinental Transconti-nental Record Wonder. .' ' ' NO RUN TO COMPARE 4 v-x Instead of Being Stripped, j Car Carried Three and i Four Passengers. To event in the automobile circles of ' the United States has created more interest in-terest or discussion than the remarkable remark-able feat of the Hudson Super-Six -which last Sunday drove into San Francisco after having crossed the continent twice, breaking all previous records for transcontinental trans-continental trips from San Francisco to Xcw York and then from New York to i " -ptnn Francisco. The round trip from San Francisco was made in 10 days 21 hours and 3 ' minutes. Last spring the best one-way reeord from coast to coast was 7 days and 8 hours. The Super-Six used was a seven-passenger touring car, and car-j car-j ried at ail times three and sometimes ' four passengers. Previous one-way records were established estab-lished with a roadster and stripped models. The public learned with a good deal ' i of enthusiasm ten days ago that Ralph Mulford, A. H. Patterson and Charles "Vincent, taking turns, had driven this Hudson Super-Sir touring car from San Francisco to New York in 5 days, 3 . hours and 31 minutes. 4 Same Car Returns. Then the news came through that the 6ame Hudson Super-Six had turned around on its arrival in New York and again made the transcontinental trip in shorter time than any other car ever made it. The same three men who drove the cur from .San Francisco to New York handled it on the trip returning, and they drove into San Francisco 57 minutes min-utes ahead of all previous New York-to-San Francisco records. Something of the terrific road conditions condi-tions encountered on the Pacific slope may be imagined by the telegrams re- reived in Salt Lake by the Tom Bot-teril Bot-teril Automobile company from the men who drove the Super-Six through to San Francisco. In their wires Mulford and his associate drivers declared that for , thirty-five solid hours, between Elko h and San Francisco, the car ploughed through rain and mud, passing many stalled machines. From Elko the car had 2-11 miles of alkali land to negotiate, nego-tiate, much of it being sink country, ti swimming with mud. . f The average speed made bv the Hud-t Hud-t ' son Super-Six going and coming, jnclud-k'w jnclud-k'w ing all stops and slowing down to the g At- speed requirements of more than 350 cities, towns and villages passed through both ways, was close to 700 miles a day. In little less than ten days the Super-Six Super-Six covered 6052 miles. According to word from the Hudson factory, there are now no important world records which refer to a stock car that the Hudson Super-Six hasn't won. The Hudson officials point to the transcontinental trip just completed by the Super-Six as one of the most . unusual un-usual and severe endurance records to which a modern motor car has ever been put. In spite of the fact that previous records across the continent were made with roadsters and stripped cars, the Hudson carried three and sometimes four passengers, which, with its baggage, brought the total weight of the car in excess of 5000 pounds. Frank Botterill and every other member mem-ber of the Botterill organization in Salt Lake, distributors of the Hudson Super-Sixes Super-Sixes in this section, are elated over the remarkable achievement, and report scores of inquiries regarding tho event. Supplying Big Demand. m Meanwhile Super-Sixes are arriving at the rate of from one to three carloads a week, and Mr. Botterill declares his company is in better shape to make immediate im-mediate deliveries of Super-Sixes than at any time since the first Super-Six was received here. The entire Botterill organization is busy preparing for the work of the ensuing en-suing week at the Utah state fair, where the Botterill company will exhibit a beautiful, specially prepared cutout chassis of Dodge Brothers car in the main automobile pavilion. This chassis was built -at the factory especially for such an event as the Utah state fair, and every working part is exposed in such 'a way that spectators may see the operation and construction and materials of the oar-. Mr. Botterill has brought this Dodge Brothers chassis through from tho factory fac-tory by express, and it will form one of the principal features of the Botterill exhibit in the automobile pavilion at the fair grounds. Cars that will be on exhibition in the Botterill booth will include a Super-Six touring car, a Dodge Brothers touring car and a beautiful Hudson Super-Six touring sedan. Mr. Botterill has extended a cordial invitation to out-of-town people who are interested in motor cars to call and inspect in-spect the Hudson Super-Six and Dodge Brothers cars during fair week. |