Show Keeping an automobile engine cool while in operation in a temperature above degrees is a feat recently-accomplished by Perle Connell of San Driving his four-cylinder air-cooled Franklin motor he traveled the miles- between San Diego and San Francisco in thirty of running making an average for the distance of slightly better than twenty-two miles an Considering the drive was for pleasure and not for a and regarding the character of the Connell says he believes the work of the car was exceptionally The heat during the run was so much in excess of normal that Connell at the finish ran into very hot the thermometer in most places registered between degrees and degrees in the and as we did all our running by day time we gave the car every possible chance to but it wouldn't do so I've come to the conclusion it is an impossible On the car three of the tires had been driven more than miles before the start for San and with these the car was driven through without puncture or any form of tire |