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Show IVEL METHOD USED TO TEST ABM Power and Flexibility Is Proved by Touring Car Up Steep Hill. j I A novel method of testing, the power ! and flexibility of the new 1919 fiuiek, by : towing- another car with five passengers j at fast speed up one of the steepest hills , la San Francisco is described in a communication com-munication recently received by the Ilan-I Ilan-I dall-Podd Auto company, the local distributors dis-tributors of P.uick and National passenger cars and CMC trucks. The tea ting ground was tho famous California street hills, from Kearny street to Mason, in San Francisco, a continuous heavy grade of four blocks, which has always proved more or less of j a bugbear for motorists. i Tho J-tuick, with its tow, started a few feet below Kearny street and hit the base of the first hill at a ten-mile-an-hour clip. At tho Grant avenue crossing the two cars wre traveling in the neighborhood neighbor-hood of fifteen miles an hour, winch speed was reduced to twelve miles an hour at Stockton street. At tho Powell street crossing the machines wore moving mov-ing at the same speed, and when the summit of the grr.de was reached at Mason Ma-son street the speedometer registered twenty-two miles an hour. Faster time could have doubtless been made, but for tho fact that Driver Joe Schmidli at the wheel of the Bulck was forced to take the cobbles on the side of the street because of a passing street car. Naturally, there wan n loss of traction and a subsequent sub-sequent reduction in speed.. But there Is no doubt that the sturdy Bulck motor performed Its task most creditably and showed no signs of strain or overheating In making the strenuous climb. In addition to Driver Schmidli, the Bulck carried B. Rosenthal as official observer ob-server and Claud McGee, while Frank Smith of the Howard Automobile company was at the wheel of the towed car and Paul Fealey acted as official observer to see that the motor of the four-cylinder car remained "dead" during the entire climb. |