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Show M AX WELL PERFORMS SPLENDIDLY IN LONG DESPERATE DRIVE Ploughing its way through snow and ice, a stock Maxwell touring car, driven by Ray McNamara, established establish-ed a remarkable record for endurance endur-ance and speed, last Wednesday, on a run between Chicago and LaCrosse, Wisconsin. Despite the terrific pounding the car suffered, it completed com-pleted the long stretch of 300 miles in fourteen hours, without mechanical mechani-cal trouble of any kind. The high speed over icy roads proved too much of a strain on tires, however, and before the run was completed, four blowouts occured, occasioning a delay of more than three hours. One of the tires let go before Madison was reached and in spite of that delay, only four hours elapsed from the time McNamara McNa-mara drove out of Chicago until he landed in the Wisconsin Capital. The distance, 150 miles, was covered in four hours, an average of 37.5 miles an hour. The heavy -snow in Western Wisconsin Wis-consin proved a serious handicap to the touring Maxwell, but it ploughed plough-ed through without hesitation, except ex-cept when stops were made along the road to change tires. Great ice-covered ice-covered ruts ate their way into the tires and three more blow-outs occured oc-cured in rapid succession. Cliicago newspaper men, who accompanied ac-companied McNamara on the run marvelled at the manner in which the car stood up under the rough treatment it was accorded. The Maxwell pilot used the same car in which he established a remarkable re-markable speed record in a run across Michigan and back on November Novem-ber 8th. On this run, the car made 350 miles in nine hours and forty-five forty-five minutes. The car used was a stock model, with no special equipment. |