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Show PRIVATE BURT DRIVES MARMON In Letter to New York Dealer Writes Enthusiastically of Car Performance. Private H. D. Burt of a base hospital unit of the American expeditionary force, drives a Marmon, which with Burt.':; services, was donated to the base hospital by Elijah Sells of Sells & llaskius, prominent New York accountants. account-ants. Iu a letter recently received by i G. Currie, general manager of the Murrnou Automobile company of New Vork, Mr. Burt tells of his pride in the cur, and the manner in which its stands tint fast work behind the lines. A portion por-tion of the letlor follows: ''It is just six months since we left goo.l old New York", and I want to tell you that the Marmon has got it on them all. The others don't seom to stand the high speed which these wonderful roads invite, "I have had a great many important army men on loug drives and they all insist that the. Marmon is the finest car they ever rode in. When it comes to hills, I can leave them all by the roadside. road-side. Several have told me that tbe Manuon is their next car, and T am told that, many 34s are coming over. The chief driver of General tells me that, the general is to get one also. ' ' On one loDg trip there were several different makes of cars and some good drivers, too. They got joking of now they wero 'going to leave the other fellows fel-lows behind.' But they forgot, to take the 84 into consideration. Just as soon as we got into the hill section I stepped on her a little and I gave the whole bunch the dust. We covered 110 miles in three hours and put it all over the fellows who boasted of ability to do seventy-five miles an hour. When any one asks me how fast. T can go I tell them 'fifty miles an hour,' but that I can pnt it all over the fellows who boast of seventy. Some speedometers seom faster than the cars, but maybe it is only the drivers' tongues and imaginations im-aginations that are fast." |