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Show WILL YOUR AUTO DO THIS? f . . . , i i ' A .'! 1 ,-- V --:.. .. . '::::; r-: A j ; , . mi . s- 1 , ' ' ' ' . , ' . . . s - , , - 1 , ' - - - ' s I , : - 7 . w i I ' ' s , - J i -- ' , , . y i ' 1 , - '1 - " ' f , f . - ; ' v 4 & i ' - l , , ! 5 "t " .,' 1 ' ' . i " ' - J '! ' y ; v ,3 "J- ? - J : , ; "M. t ' " ' " "-' --- J ; , . - i x 1 Photo shows the red streak Franklin, owned hy B. B. Quinn, 713 East Third South street, which, in a recent test run went at an average mileage of 39.2 for each gallon of gasoline. The" party that made the trip is shown with, the car: . Mr. Quinn is at the wheel, Miss Lucy Quinn is. seated in the rear, Miss Margaret Quinn stands by the rear door, and C. W. Newtou, Franklin dealer, is standing in front of the car. When B. B. Quinn bought his big red Franklin touring car last May, he was not quite sure that it would ilo all that was.claimod for those remarkably efficient, air-cooled, light-weight automobiles. auto-mobiles. Without making any particular partic-ular test, Mr. Quinu watched the consumption con-sumption of gas and arrived at the conclusion that he was not getting all the miles he should. In fact, ho told C. W. Newton, manager of the Franklin Frank-lin agency, that he was only gctting about half of the rated miles per hour on a gallon of gas. With the view of convincing Mr. Quinn that a Franklin car would do thirty miles or more on a gallon of engine en-gine fluid, Mr. Newton arranged for a test run one day last week. The car j was weighed in at the city scales and tipped the beam at ;025 pounds with the four passengers shown above. The route selected was over the Highland drive to tho entrance of Cottonwood Cot-tonwood canyon, then out over the Mill Creek road, covering average grades and considerable rough stretches. A distance dis-tance of over twenty-five miles was negotiated, and then the second measurement mea-surement of gasoline was had. The test proved the red-streak Franklin was stepping along at better than twenty-five miles per hour on an average consumption of gasoline a fraction less than forty miles per gallon, or 39.2, to be exact. All Mr. Quinu now has i to say about his car is, ''Can your au- J tomobile di as well?" |