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Show SOME TEST, THIS With Its fan bell removed and Its water pump rendered inoperative a Cleveland Light Six touring car carrying carry-ing four persons has been successfully successful-ly driven up Mount Hamilton in northern north-ern California, according to a report received by Wilfong-Glasmann Co., local lo-cal Cleveland dealers. The trip up the mountain, on which the Lick observatory Is located, Is 150 miles. During the ride the car was not stopped "to cool off" nor was it otherwise other-wise spared. The party of four members mem-bers of the Peacock Motor Sales Co., San Francisco, Clevelaud distributor, left Oakland at S:45 a m. and reached the Lick observatory at 12 o'clock. The pnrty stopped for lunch and complot- i ed tho trip at. Oakland at 5:10 In the , evening. StwUey D, Lewln. of San Francisco,, ncted as observer and at the end ol j the trip made an affidavit describing Ihe remarkably successfully radiation Lest without fan belt or water pump. The car was stock and no adjustments adjust-ments were made beyond the removal of the fan belt and the operation which rendered the water pump useless. Production figures of the Cleveland Automobile company of Cleveland, O..J makers of Cleveland Light Six motor cars, show that twice as many of these cars were produced during January than in the previous month according to a factory statement. Every effort is being made to so speed up production as to double the January figures during February. A large four-story addition to the present factory is nearlng completion and it is oxpected this will be In operation opera-tion by the middle of March Increasing the capacity of the original plant, completed nearly a year ago, by one-half. one-half. When this new annex is in operation oper-ation the Cloveland Automobile company com-pany hopes to reach its originally planned production schedule of 150 cars a day. The now addition will be 200x80 feot, four stories high and, this with the original or-iginal plant will give the factory a four-story building, 800x80 feet with 256.000 square feet of floor space for manufacturing purposes. The plant is located on a 19-acre tract on the Nickle Plate railroad main line with several spur tracks running around the factory- nn |