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Show TWO AUTOS IN INDIANA-PACIFIC TOUR MADE BY MEN WHO BUILT WORLD'S FIRST SUCCESSFUL GASOLINE CAR HPI haa. liMBgggfl g? 3 sbV HHHr iflniBsl ' BY tat ' Mi, - :' sKsgasgflKSSH Bass 'KaEaSBW ileVaSBBBBBBBBBBBBBBKS BBsssal ijayMpFM ELMER AFFEBSOK "The father of the American automobile. "The Apperson team in the Indiana-Pacific Indiana-Pacific tour, which arrived in Salt Lake last night, looked none the worse for the 2000-mile trip from Indianapolis, and showed their stamina and power in the climb over the mountain from Denver," says G. F. Horn of the Apperson Ap-person Motor Car company, 41 South State street, Utah distributors for Apperson Ap-person care. "When the tour left Grand Junction for Green River not all the cars made the night control. Nine of the entries were able to push through the heavy gumbo and across the flooded arroyos to tureen River and the Appersons set the pace for the other entrants and both of the bright red ' jackrabhits pulled into Ireen River. "These two cars are built by the men who made the first successful gasoline car in America Elmer and Edgar Apperson. Ap-person. Elmer Apperson was approached nv Elwood Havnes in 1893, who re quested Apperson to build him what raj then termed a 'horseless carriage.' Mr. Apncr.on started work on the car. made the drawings, designs, patterns and purchased the materials. This car was then delivered to Mr. Haynes after it had been tested out. This same car now reposes in the Smithsonian institute insti-tute in Washington. D. G, "Edgar Apperson drove one of their cars in the Charles power track race in Boston in 1897, the first speed contest in America and won easily. He also won the first 100-mile nonstop run, which was held on Long island bv the Automobile Club of America in 1901. "Edgar Apperson also startled American Amer-ican automobiledom in 1898 when he drove one of their cars overland from Kokomo, Ind., to New York City to deliver de-liver it to a customer, a distance, of more than 900 miles. "The two Apperson Mackrabblt1 ears in this tour were entered by the Apperson Apper-son brothers to show that the ears of today could successfully negotiate the trip to Los Angeles from Kokomo, and to demonstrate the progress made in twenty years of successful motor car building. ' ' |