Salt Lake Tribune | 1918-02-03 | Page 39 | Maxwell Proves its Power in Long Trip

IrJDCWQI PROVES ITS I POWER I LOI If j ! New Car Makes Remark- i able Run From Kansas v City to Coast, Going half way across the continent in a new auto, which has been out of the freight car only three hours before the start, and had never teen given a trial except the factory test. J. M. Hameling i and his three sons recently arrived at San Bernaidino, Cal.. in one of the Maxwells, being probably the first owners own-ers of this year's cars to take a crosscountry cross-country trip, according to Manager J. B. Middlemen of the Sun Motor Sales company, com-pany, local Maxwell distributors. Starting from Kansas City, the trip ! was made leisurely through Kansas ami Colorado, where Ka meiirg reports good ; roads. In New Mexico the party at- temr ted to drive over an unfamiliar j stretch of road at night and lest their way. They roue j alcr.g for more than I l fifty nines over what Hameling says are the worst roa d s on th. e fa c e of t h e i earth. "There were boulders and huge rc:ks everywhere." he states, "ar.d those tew parts of trie road v.hich were free from rocks were some of the steepest grades we have ever attempted to dr e ovvr. A sharp rock punctured one of the tires, but aside from that there was not a bit of mechanical trouble on anv part ox t'"e trip. "We haVe been over the same route in two o t a e r cars within 1 1 - post three years, and both of the other cars we: e :arger and supposed to be more powerful power-ful than the Maxwell, but thev s-ve us t ro i: b '. e time a n d a gu i n . ana : r e : u e n 1 1 v balked at the steer- erades. The Maxwe : certainly proved that the Max-we:! Max-we:! company ha brought out tiie best Maxwell ew; produced, ar.d that is saying say-ing a lot, for the Maxwells of the past have been good c.i'S. "During the night we were lost in New Mexico, when our tire was punctured, the advantage of having a scare whe-ei a n d d e m ou n table wheels instead of d e -moun table rims was made clear to us. i for we changed to the spare wheel i less than one minute, and we could have 9 change 3 to a demountable rim in less than ten minutes." The Kamehngs are going to drive tho car back to Missouri.