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Show CHALMERS HOT-SPOT Expert testimony is always given great weight in a court of law, and therefore the findings of an admitted expert in driving should be real evidence evi-dence in motor tests of any kind, bo, whon it was recently decided to try out a Chalmers for economy, the driver chosen was Ray McXamara, famous road engineer a man who has probably prob-ably driven a motor car farther than any man who ever lived. His records show that he has driven far more than S00,000 miles, and, by the way, he has never had an accident nor broken a traffic regulation, according to Elliott Taylor of the Taylor Motor company, Chalmers distributors. Using a Chalmers car with no special adjustment. McNamara submitted it, to a test of 154 miles, every mile of which was through congested city traffic in Xetroit. No spocial effort was made toward economy, every-day conditions were maintained in every way, and, with three passengers, tho result fourteen four-teen miles per gallon was strikingly good. Even so, McXamara was not satisfied, sat-isfied, and he determined to make some single-gallon tests also in the city streets. He maintained a steady twen-ty-mile-sn-hour speed, and tho average was between 18.1 and IS. 6 miles to the gallon. . Those tests were made by driving driv-ing as tho average Chalmers owners would. No trick driving -was resorted to. Outside of the congested city traffic even better results were obtained. McNamara Mc-Namara drove 122 miles over Michigan roads dirt, gravel arid some concreto and maintained a consistent speed of twenty-two miles an hour. Accurate measurement of the gasoline consumed showed tho splendid average of eighteen miles per gallon for the full trip. McNamara gives it as -his opinion that these marks are splendid for a. six-cj-linder car, and as they were made under conditions that would obtain in the cases of ninety-nine out of a hundred hun-dred drivers, they are of importance in these days of high-priced fuel. |