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• dSflWllOB': i-Ji.'a^'ii^s\' xr. ^^-••'- < —-\ and Titus Make Coast 7 Hrs. LessThan Fastest Express Train Ford ©ealers, ©riving Tuder Fordsoii, l4ek', to' Sua in - lh confidehce in their hearts four sandwiches in their ts f and you nave fully equip* tie Lindberghs, Chamberlins ds of the air—and the and Tltuaes of tbe land. [odel io 4 j : w the transcountry trip from Midv ** Seattle, Wash, itl y scheduled ? hours Ome of less train from Ctrcat el \AT Ford car has com* 3064 altos from Fordson In 76 Hour* and SO joain- wd .itfpe,; or. *t an • mver- at of j*tS7 mites per Siour. , hours and 20 minutes were tar oar servicing, jgna nts, so that actual - speed was of 44.86 miles per hour oeil j joarpey. i * Jlodel \T\ Part car i tost tntoscootiaaital race of fetatory, .Usw Seattle, nineteen- years <& Mattel \A\ cmr •sew transcouotry record lor Model Trr speedometer t* regSstar of 4;06 ndlm At \ o* «n <cOapa*d SS. days mad *-•_ _ _-^-. tnnrtH,,! or actual thirty conhtfli\ ana <88 minutM, while car Araveltt atarat predeceaeor in gbout re tfaan I3»w days. epochal flrive of 1W8. whan \ car «ran the fanuaia race, was finished on tfee of spring; the drive of AUAi ttep«h.lftr^aria» i In ffiTatftci * jm*MIe'~ off the „ ^.._, abatement They iteere prepare for \the luck «t tth,e roiad,\ aad, as mat- ters tiar»ea out, they cUdn'fc get any ireaks, for three ti*es went flati once a jealous Model \T\ forced 4bhe Model \A\ inte a» Ida- ho 4ttcb» where ft suffered a wreclrad rear wheel, and another time in Oregon the Tudor sedan the slipped into a ditch and damaged —* tvpo wheels, adding the car limp- ing into Portland, a hundred miles away, '. , • —- ...._ Despite these setbacks, the se- dan arrived in Portland aJntost 7 hfiurs ahead of the scheduled time of the fastest train between stt train toetween De^ twott and the mouth, of the Co» lumbia River. Twice, on the 300-ntfle trip, the car was serviced a« to greasing and change of oil. Over the coun try Had gone the word—of what was happening and along toe wmte. every Ford dealer* and his CBBW was on the lookout for the Coast Pair. At Bawltags, Wyo., «T dealer waited up until the car rolled tip to his place at 3.48 fn the morning. The car was rambling through Wyoming wliea the log>-keepeir made this note? \Now driving In snow,, hut nicely and safely 4th ing 1S5 miles. Little car just built for till conditions.\ . * hundred, miles out of Ford- soo we met a Cadillac spoff model dioig W il We h bte ..their the ^Msiof; tfte of 38 proxi«latfi:. feftllw^y max-U,'- -waa at Rfi»itogs». Wyo., the ^ wtteage standing at Tke elaped,time \mm hours,, froi» #ofcli it will W n t*at-tj&e wjfliwar ,«oaditiom on h west Mops «?f ttie Hoekies are e up to t&ose of mo «aatem ppacft m&.&im those ef the 'Mississippi ITaJley,. •. • • .•• From jRaWegs to Seattle there remained li98ajfles, which was covered la 3& Jttaurs and 50 miift- utes. The major fjaipfe of the i>ick-up was made upon bitting the'tSStum- bia Hig«w*y ia Oregon, -and theace up tlfe Facifie Highway through the State of Washington to SeattJe. **m. A****~,J. ~* il* mm ** \^ » vaamac spore moaei £L?T5S*Z «-? *> ?«« we hung um W miles. W hung to bte tail for quite a distance; then lost Mm- after passing him for the third time.\ ° Sandwiches »were exhausted by the ttate Omaha was reached and Sedan w_as- Ireetaig off «0 to 65 miles an hour on these high- ways, [and the Model -\Ta\ wWch accompanied them the last 100 miles or more Into tfie,finish line broke their backs trying to keep up to the pacemaklng Model A. For more thaa * htmdred miles out of Eawllngs\ it snowed.- On the firtletb how of the Jottr- ney Mlsa Tudor ateppgd into Poc- ateBo, just over\ the border line of Wyoming, in Idaho, Third morn- ing dawns at Echo, £>re. \Most glorious smutune ever seen.'* At Pendleton, Ore., home 6t the famous Rouad-Up, is the sign-\ board which gives, the motorist his choice of reaching Seattle, the metropolis «f ttm Pacific North- out of p^ Wdtpr ,C<j»ipa,ny piaafe to Michigan, the dashiitig Mias Sedou ^tft #tllOi Sh' tft serlgihtly ^s m&i8i%SMte the town: «at tm& ,»et $$j$ «| th^ MfssOBri; * Blie fad slipped on bm : left side about 80 mites <t of the €»re|foa metrofolist and dtod^hte the East, f 8 l note in the \Pftstest leaving at tfte Mode* 'V J» not due to\ Portlaai until ^.SOjtfalrevenlag, We got shprriy befoipe nooa, beating- < trafe by? alntost ff hours. Ottr speedometer «how» 2848 mflet,'* , Hallway to Sefttti* out of Fort* land, the jj'ordt dealera of the re* gion had drawn a parade, along- side the road^-of: Model \VeT and. om ovesfg t% To JDate. Flh CSeneral Subject, of ij'' t ?r**rrT'*L**'' -: **.T'*'***'*'*r*^a.*' ! ' Feb. 3-ft. mechan- is McKay, prominent dealer, antf^ CTE. well-known Ford dealer of the capital of the State Seattle Is the metropolis, \ m a \dare;\ had been arrang- it when the two Pacific • dealers appeand at the e of the Ford Motor y^at Ifordsoo, mahu, at •Feb. 3, they had wttb nm Wm *A\ car. tratt?»country- route froin ml^kes to the Pacifle ^ KM »Am, owrmhow, and thermos H ot coitee and ' «fae may be trl| to tie «««*t to l «««*Bt wto memory of auto,\ %as W.J.MUMLEY General Contracting ;. Cement Work Expertly •Trucking' of Ai KIHDS,' We.. have , the tilitipB a«d, ability to promptly, ( e0ci§ri% and moderafe prices »U lines.' ;\'/.\,-,. 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