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...Central in one of her six Rolls-Royces,* made the 28-mile trip in a private car, was met in Pleasantville by other Rolls-Royces she had sent ahead. On this occasion observers noted the private car did not carry an empty baggage car behind, usual Hutton caution against rear-end collisions...
...only a few trucks and racing cars.* Sponsors of the Ruxton maintain that the pull of the front-wheel drive is a more efficient application of power than the push of the conventional rear-wheel drive. More apparent to the layman is the ground-hugging streamline effect of the low structure made possible by the absence of the long drive shaft and rear-end differential. It is this low body which has made possible the elimination of the running-board-the passenger steps from the car directly to the ground. The Ruxton also claims greater "readability" and driving ease...
...crack passenger train between New Orleans and Chicago. On the midnight run of March 18, 1900, with Mardi Gras guests abroad. Casey Jones saw a crash coming with the rear-end of a freight train near Vaughns, Mississippi. He did all he could to prevent it, pulled on the air-brakes, threw his engine into reverse. Then he yelled to the fireman: "jump if you want to save your neck." But Casey Jones, no jumper, stayed with his locomotive and died instantly in the crash...