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Show Colorful Texas Ranger Joe Bridge (left) of Falfurrias, end Ranger Rang-er Tully Seay (second from right) of Carrizo Springs visit Continental Continen-tal Oil Co. test-run headquarters at Laredo. Texas, to learn from Wade Johnson (second from left), and Frank Suess (far right) "whats going on." The two company technicians explain to the rangers that six test cars of the company are being driven 800 miles per day at speeds averaging 60 miles per hour over a period of 70 days, to test the wear-prevention qualiiies of a new super motor oil developed by the company. At the end of the lest run, which put more than 50.000 miles on each car equal to five years' mileage for the average family fam-ily car the motors were torn down and checked for wear, which proved to be less than one one-thousandth of an inch on cylinders and crankshafts. As the Rangers learned at the conclusion oi the test, wear had been so negligible that factory machining marks were still visible on piston rings. |