Show j I PUBLIC ASKS r PERFORMANCES 1 Buyers Would Know What Car Can Do Chalmers o Sh Shows ws Them Performance when nil all Is KiM Bald nn and clinching a argument that th done Is the mind nil o of makes for tor decision In the tho m I the prospective motor car P purchaser t said E D C. C Taylor Talor manager er of ot of Taylor Talor to for Motor Car eRr company n distributors Chalmers cars cant In answering a query as IlS to whether the tho public Is educated up to the tho technical stylo of or nd er Tho rho n ern average o man d doesn doesn't t care a n continental whether a n car is construct constructed whether It aluminum ed d d of or steel or has bas an nn L head or a T head motor or how fast th the motor turns O over r. r But Hut ho he does docs want to know what the car r has hasT T done clone and can cnn do on hill and plain on city boulevards and gumbo roads Listen to th the arguments set ct forth h by any group roup of or lam laymen n In discussing their f 1 cars and you OU see tco that this Is II so Thc They talk performance not mechanical Jargon I Although Althou h the Ou Chalmers company did dl not promote a systematic stunt campaign during the past year r. tho the records established b by Chalmers owners owners own own- twelve twelvemonths twelvemonths last ers and drivers e In the t months speak eloquently eloquent of ot the cars I stamina A remarkable feature of ot several several sev- sev Ceral I eral of or the records Is that th they were cre I totally unac- unac made b. b by amateur drivers l with racing or track work Homer George Geon e a former newspaper newspaperman man of or Atlanta now managing t th the e Atlanta opera house c. was wn responsible for hanging ln up two new nOw r records Inthe Inthe in inthe the South which have ha defied competition competition compe compe- up to date Driving his own p n passenger five eer car full fully equipped George lowered all nil rail mil and road roul records records rec rec- rec between Atlanta and Chattanooga Tenn beating tho the time of or the famous tl Dixie flyer train b by seven en minutes Ho lie also beat bent the be best t previous automobile automobile automobile auto auto- mobile records between the two points point b by thirty seven e en n minutes Following 1 ollow ing this Mr Ir Geor George e drove the same car from Atlanta to Jacksonville Jacksonville Jackson Jackson- ville yme Fla In a distance of miles In I eleven en hours houf and nine fifty minutes over hea heavy roads and amI under bad bl weather er r conditions This still stands stand as 0 the record time bet between een the two points BEATS KATY LIMITED Within a l week k after this r record Coro was Seas W ot buns up W. W W. W Morris Morriss Jr of or Dallas Tex drove a n n e passenger five en r SIx 30 touring car from Dallas to San SRn I Antonio over O 0 miles mUe of or muddy mudd roads In nie hours and two twenty minutes j I He bettered the best st previous road record b by over o three hours hOUN and heat beat I Ithe the fast tast Katy Limited on the M. M I. I KT K K- T T. railroad b by one hour rind end thirty thirty- three minutes On June Juno S 7 B. B J. J F. F Durham and nod A. A l E E. two Chalmers driver dri established a n new now record for the trip between Chicago and New York o of thirty-one thirty hours hour flat Oat for tor 1047 1017 mile Journey Journe An n average vem e pet speed d o of 33 7 miles 8 p per r hour was maintained although h half holt the run w was as made in a hN heavy down n pour Durham later established a n. new road record between bet lwe- lwe n Detroit nn and In Indianapolis In- In with th the same Mime car us used d I Inthe Inthe in inthe the Chicago sew York run A remarkable remarkable remarkable remark remark- able feature ture of ot the five n t iid nd i records record I hung bung up In rapid succession b by Chalmers Chalm Chalm- ers f cars is the fact tact that a n. grand total t of 2137 miles mile of ur country countr roads and mountain trails were traversed at ol an a average e speed peed of or over O thirty miles milts per hourA hourA hourA hour A record of or unusual Inter interest t to New Yorkers was th the traffic te test t made b bv by Lord Do Douglas UK las Gm Gray who drove a n ay y Chalmers Six mil miles R In thirty thirty- thirtyfour thirtyfour I 0 four hours bours through h the tho tensest densest traffic of or of Mew ew York CIl City Lord Gra Gray bettered i the bt best beat t previous pre traffic record of or 21 mlles miles in a n Vauxhall car in London Landon two to J years previous lou He climbed Abbey hillon hill hillon hillon on hl high h speed weed on each of or his fourteen circuits of or his cou course e. e BAD HILL CONQUERED i By fly winning the Giants Giants' Despair hill I Y 1 climb at Wilk c acre October 7 in a u. at t Chalmers Six Fred Junk brought a I brilliant climax to a year of or Chalmers triumphs Junk defeated four 12 cUn t der cars carl several Je of ot well wen known racing creations and some orne of the highest t priced cars In America in the free-for- free all sll event ent He lie ne negotiated the a Continued on pace 7 7 PUBLIC ASKS Continued from page pape 6 6 foot course courso with a rise of or feet teet in one minute and one forty seconds Three months before Junk drove the same Chalmers to victory In the inch class event on the terrific grades of Pikes Peak Another Chalmers Six finished second in this event Since the classic days of oC the early Vanderbilt cup tho the publics public's definition of ot performance ha has shifted from straight speed record to round all-round work In hill and anel road events That the records records records rec rec- established by Ch Chalmers cars inthe InI in tho the past year have borne fruit is evidenced evidenced evi evl- I 1 by the sale e of or over cars roTS of this make mako since the first of or last January H |