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Show BOUi.DARY CAR GETS 26 MILES TO GALLON V Saxon Roadster Scores Record Rec-ord in 6000 Miles of , - Country Trip. , In tha first see miles of the Journey of the Saxon Four roadster, which Is busing a routs for tha National Boundary Boun-dary highway, the average mileage on a gallon of gasoline up to the present time has been twenty-six miles. This remarkable record of economy in fuel consumption, aooordlng to word received in Rait Lelae by Russell Richards, Rich-ards, sales tmanager of the Saxon Motor Sales com party, has been made day In and day out for the last two months over soms of the roughest road in ths country snd under the worst weather conditions. Tha car left Washington at Inauguration Inaugu-ration time and has been going south snd weet along the rim of the United States, reaching Las Angeles only recently. The trip to date haa eovered the southern mud roads, ths sands of Florida, the alkali of the Mexioan border bor-der and the mountain trails over the Shame, and the gasoline consumption haa been recorded and averaged for every foot of tha way. Aside from its fuel economy the roadster has proved economical In operative coats of sll kinds Ths car s stock model, hss carried a superlosd of two drivers' snd a Jarge amount of hsggsgs without troubls. . There neve been minor adjualmsnts necessary, but the trip hss not been delsyed through snv fsult of ths car. Ons thing thst hss mads ths first part of ths trip difficult sre the roads that have been encountered. Spring freshets have msds many miles of mud travel, often hub deep. In ona place sand forced the car to corns to a halt nntll strips of canvos were lsld In front of ths wheels to travel on. Several Sev-eral times ths csr has plunged shesd against ths advice of local motorists and haa broken a path through mud that has been Impassable for motor ears for weeks. Now thst California, with Its splendid splen-did roads hss been reached, the trail blasers expect to maka apeed until the northern boundary line la reached and tha return trln along the Canadian line la started. The trip haa shown wonderful won-derful possibilities for motoring In ths South and Southwest, and slso hss given the trail blasers a larga amount of data which will be useful to the government from a military standpoint, seeordlng to information available from Mr. Richards. |