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Show OIL MPW BUYS 25 RIEW HUDSON SUPER- j SIX CARS I Selection .Made After Chief I Engineer Visited Leading :B Automobile Plants. ,' E . B . ; 9 Twenty-five of tho new, patented 76 'W horse-power Hudson Super-Sixes have , g just been sold to the Quapaw Oil & P Gas company of Bartlesville, Okla., by the McClelland Gentry Motor com- jp rany of Oklahoma City. At the pres- tf- ent time, the company is using twen- ' r- ty-seven cars of eighteen different v makes, which they have been testing fK for the past two years. As a result f'1 of the Super-Six purchase all those If cars now In use have been offered ft for sale and the twenty-f ivo Super- eixes will bo called on to do the work ' f' that tho twenty-seven have been do- ; ins. ; The sale was directly due to the " j& fact that some time ago, the chief f-' engineer of the company, and a num- , h ber of its officials had a ride in a J& 1914 Hudson which had been run Je some 70,000 miles, which had changed '. K: hands four times, and still was doing ' all that it was called on to do in the ti1 oil fields, which is no weakling's task, j W The chief engineer accordingly ( Sj went to Detroit and was shown about j K. tho leading automobile factories, j whore he closely scrutinized methods Sj of manufacture, material used and '; Br became acquainted with other vital w factors of each make of car. Imme- , ft diately on his return west, the deal ; ml with the McClelland Gentry Motor i company, was closed. W The 25 Super-Sixes will be operated ''' ' along tho company's pipe line from m. Kansas to the coast, where the roads !' B are extremely rough and abundant f reserve power and sturdiness of l) ft frame are absolutely essential. I |