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Show SPEED RECORD FOR I THE COMFORT CAR I-ast week it was necessary for a middle mid-dle western distributor of Hupmoblles to convince a sulxlealer, before he would sign a contract, that the new Hupmobile series "R" could make more than sixty miles an hour. A test was arranged, and it ie reported that, from a standing start, forty-live miles an hour was reached in fifteen seconds and that the speedometer showed sixty-three mtleB in exactl v forty-tlve seconds. The car in the test carried four men and the top and windshield wind-shield were up. second speed was used in starting. Even the war, with its demand de-mand that economy of operation, strength of construction and all-around performing perform-ing ability, shall he considered above all other qualities, cannot quite down the average American's desire for speed. |