Ogden Daily Standard | 1917-01-13 | Page 12 | New Mitchell Six Shatters Record

oo NEW MITCHELL SIX SHATTERS RECORD A short time apo S. J. Murph asd Hal M Harris, sales manager of the Cameron-Barkley company of Jacksonville, Jackson-ville, Fla , started out in one of ohn W. Bate's Mitchell Juniors to break a record to Tampa thath ad stood un-: un-: broken lor over a year. The sand stretch of something oyer 17' miles without a break is what has held oft every high speed motor for a long tini''. Leaving Jacksonville in a brand new stock car Just delivered and w. no preliminary tuning up the trip was made via Acala in exactly t. n honr- ; and forty-five minutes. The best previous record over this route between these two point irai made by a well-known twelve-cylinder car in eleven hours and fifty-eight minutes, the distance being 273 miles The tirst names record was the subject sub-ject of much discussion, as it was made by a regular fifty-six in h tread j model. Exactly 173 miles of heavy, loose sand, through which this record run was made, thoroughly demonstrates that the sand has no terrors for the new Mitchell, for not once did the I water in the radiator boll. oo