Word: carly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...four-wheeled, not two-wheeled, vehicles that he made his fortune. Like many another far-sighted man who was young when the automobile industry was an infant, he hitched his wagon to the horseless-carriage. In 1898 he went to Europe, brought back two European-made motor cars, sold both at a profit. Then he went to Detroit, came back with a contract giving him the New England territory for the Packard car. As the Packard car prospered, as more and more motorists began to "Ask the Man Who Owns One," Alvan Tufts Fuller prospered also. Today he is rumored...
...Studebaker stockholders had other strong food to chew on last week. This was the report of the test of swift endurance, run by a stock Studebaker at Culver City, Calif. In 81 hours a four-passenger, closed model, six-cylinder car covered 5,000 miles (equivalent of six months' ordinary driving) at an average speed of 61.12 miles per hour.* No fully equipped stock car had previously been put through a 5,000-mile speed-endurance test. So Studebaker has a record...
...large advertisements last week, President E. L. Cord of the Auburn Automobile Co. stated: "AUBURN, America's Fastest Stock Car, breaks official A. A. A. 1,000-mile Stock Car Record. . . . This record was held by a Chrysler with the very creditable speed of 59.54 miles per hour, a truly remarkable performance. Auburn BREAKS this record . . . with an average of 68.37 m. p. h. . . . BUT WHAT OF IT? Great and unparalleled, as this performance is, it is ONLY INCIDENTAL with...
John North Willys owns the U. S. rights to the use of the Knight, sleeve-valve motor. Wary of competition, he has restricted its use in this country to his Willys-Knight and Stearns-Knight motor cars and General Motors Yellow Cab.* Last week appeared a fourth, the Falcon-Knight, six-cylinder car made at Elyria, Ohio, to sell at about...
...Once there was a Sterling-Knight car made at Columbus, Ohio...