Salt Lake Tribune | 1918-02-03 | Page 37 | Manager Middleton on Eastern Trip

MANAGER MIDDLETON ON EASTERN TRIP Visits Chicago Show; to Spend Several Days at the Maxwell Factory. Manager J. B. Middlntorj of the Sun Motor Sales company, local Maxwell distributors, left last week for a tw-o weeks' eastern trip, during 'which time he will visit the Chicago automobile 6how and the Maxwell Motor company factory at Detroit, Mich. Before Mid-dleton Mid-dleton left for the east he received a letter from the Detrcfit representative of the American Automobile association. associa-tion. "Another truck record for the Maxwell," Max-well," he exclaimed rrpou opening the letter. "Time was when we made every ev-ery new Maxwell truck record the event of considerable publicity, but thev came alone? so fast that "records censed to be a novelty to ns. It is only when something really exceptional comes to pass now that we make anv particular particu-lar mention. However, this recent record rec-ord made at Detroit is so extraordinary that it overshadows all feats for many months past." T,.u"d" he, Personal observation of V. D Ldenburn, automobile editor of the Detroit .News, and local representative represen-tative of the American Automobile association; as-sociation; C. G. riteinhauer, automobile editor of the Detroit .Journal, and E . biilhvan, assistant secretary of the Detroit Automobile club, a 'Maxwell one-ton truck, taken from 'stock, carrying car-rying over 2300 pounds, driven bv an inexperienced driver through the traffic traf-fic ot Detroit and rural roads adjacent to the city, made 17.8 miles on one gallon ot gasoline. Just one "little mischance prevented the truck from making eighteen or more miles on the test. The driver, not being familiar with the roads, unfortunately unfor-tunately drove into a blind street. In order to turn around in the extremely narrow roadway it was necessary to move back and forth, and thus lower the mileage.