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Show ; MAXWELL TON TRUCK MAKES WINTER DRIVE Bucks Snow and Ice on Long Track From Mew York to Florida. Undismayed by any road lordship since '"its attainments under the first American " Automobile association sanction cvur issued is-sued to cover a track test were made a matter of official record, the Maxwell one-ton truck, which traveled from Xew lork to Florida and return, under the requirements of the. sanction, immediately immedi-ately set out on a second journey from New York to Chicago, and finished this drive with a success record equal to its first official demonstration. leaving New York in midwinter and with 1000 miles, of the toughest snow and ( i'e-covered roads in front of it that a motor product ever had been called upon to negotiate, the truck plowed its way to -Philadelphia. Pittsburg, Cleveland and Detroit. Pausing: in its home city long enough to catch its breath, so to speak, it again took to the roads m .Michigan and made the Detroit-Chicago drive or , : io miles in t v o d ays. T he t rn ck left Ivtroit in the fae of vcnorts from Chi-1:1:0 Chi-1:1:0 of a third big l:lir.z;ird in Illinois, which again piled the mads with snow-uri;ts snow-uri;ts deeper than were occasioned by two former storms. In Chicago t lie truck proved to be a center of interest for hundreds of Chicago Chi-cago and other business men who were invited to acquaint themselves with the record it accomplishes under the scrutiny of America's highest independent author-it author-it v. the A. A. A. A t motor shows in 'lev eland and Oc-1 Oc-1 1 oit the Max wci i a Iso attracted much, favorable alien' ion from interested business busi-ness men. The car is the only one in existence ever" to he decorated with a report re-port on performance written by the A. A. A. This report, which certifies the track to be one of the regular stock model mod-el productions of the Maxwell company, constitutes what is declared to be the most sweeping indorsement a motor prod-in prod-in t ever has won from the independent .-viihority. it made its L'.MX'-miie run without any repairs and with nothing re-m re-m hred more than minor adjust ment to tiu carbureter and the gasoline feed line. In its sanctioned run the truck more Cian sustained every statement ever made in its behalf by the Maxwell company, com-pany, and it repeated on this in its Xew Yoik-Chicago midwinter drive. It likewise like-wise made this b'uo-mile journey without with-out attention of any kind. "In these two runs." said Manager J. F-i. Middle: on of the Sun .V'T-t Sles ("mpany. local distributor, "the Maxwell Max-well has gone through more work in six weeks than the averasre owner would require re-quire of it in two years, but despite this. .11 inspection of its j rts at the Maxwell faotoiies revealed 'no measurable wear in ;.!-. tor, transmission, dutch or rear axle. The truck got a similar indorsement for ilie durabilitv of these moving parts when the official technical examination, as required re-quired by the A. A. A., was made in New York at the con Huston of the New Yoi k-.Taeksonvillc, . Fia., and return drive." |