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Show f 'sfflllSPJIPEB GAR SEI5 CMIU RECORD Covers 94,000 Miles in 13 Months of Continuous Driving. What is believed to be a world 's record rec-ord for continuous driving of an automobile auto-mobile is the one that has just come to the notice of the Goodyear Tire & Rubber company, Akron, Ohio, from J. A. Van Horn of Los Angeles, Cal. For thirteen months he has been engaged en-gaged in the transportation of newspapers newspa-pers from that city to Santa Barbara, operating a Chandler car on Goodyeai cord tires, and has during that period covered the amazing distance of 94,000 miles nearly tour times the circumference circumfer-ence of the earth. Van Horn loads his car bright am! early each morning -with papers fresli from the press, and on week davs car- I ries a load of half a ton, which o'n Sun-' days increases to 1500 pounds. When-fSXtf When-fSXtf passengers wish to make the trip ..16 newspapers are hauled in a trailer. The capacity of both car and trailer is taxed to transport the Sunday editions. In commenting on his wonderful record, rec-ord, Mr. Van Horn said: "In running my car this distance I have never lost a minute because of the car being out of condition. I have put it through the severest possible service. ser-vice. My car has become the talk of owners of other cars all along my route, and my rnn has been so regular that some people 'say they can tell the time by my passing. "I found it advisable to equip the car with oversize tires, and have been using Goodyear cords. Thev have been returning an averago of 12,000 miles to the set, which shows that, despite having hav-ing to haul a trailer, my car is exceedingly exceed-ingly easy on tires. 'My average daily rnn has been 237 miles, and in the thirteen months I have missed only three days. A relief driver handled the car on those days. "I have used seven sets of tires and have kept an accurate account of gasoline gaso-line mileage, which shows my average ........... Lu Luc f;dnuu. -iy onerate 04,000 miles has required more than 6000 gallons of gasoline, costin" more than $1200." |