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Show WESTERN ROADS ARE IMPROVING Essex Speeders Had Better Going Than Hudson Racers of 1916 A combination of highways was used in making the fast time by Es- I sex cars in the recent New York- j San Francisco record. In general the transcontinental i roads, wene the Lincoln Highway, the , Pike's Peak kcean to Ocean High- way and the National Old Trail by which a combination was worki d out covering the best roads between . ow I York and San Francisco. One Important cutoff, that saved sonic distance but necessitated the travel of some very rough nnd dan gerous roads, was that across the narrowest point of the Great Salt Lake Desert in Utah. The Lincoln Highway curves around the southern extremity of the Salt Desert, but the Essex car look the cut directly across the mud flats for some forty seen miles. This difficult part of the speedy trip covering a stretch of 265 miles between Salt Lake and Ely Kev., wa in charge of Manager Lew Hains and V. P. Cortez oJ" the Ogden Motor Car company, local Essex Es-sex representatives. Mr. Hains. who piloted all four of the Essex cars over thLs particular section, says, I'No little part of the credit lor thp fast time made by these transcontinental mail carriers should go to the good roads boosters of America. Since the Hudson Super-Six made its record in 1916. there have been notable improvements improve-ments chiefly in Wyoming, Nebraska Nebras-ka and Isevada. where a vast amount of work has been done." Mr Hains was one of the official driven in the famous Hudson transcontinental round trip made in 1016. |