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...lean, long-legged mammals which man had bred for speed, raced each other for 220 yards in San Francisco, last week. Propelling himself nearly twice as fast as fastest humans can run, Clockwork, horse, covered the distance in 11 seconds, finished two yards ahead of Arroyo Sloe Eyes, whippet...
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...himself, received their answers in written form, took the answers back to the U. S., pondered them well. Then, for two years, Studebaker engineers and body designers pored over blueprints, utilized proving grounds-and produced the Erskine Six. It is a small car (no smaller than an Overland Whippet). It is low-hung; has a small, high speed, high compression motor; "2 1/3 litres," the advertising says - which is the Parisian way of saying that a motor is 40 horsepower...
Another vice, reported by a Miss Irene Hannan: "Children are going to school so sleepy [that] their heads fall over on their desks, because they attended the dog [whippet] races the night before...
...cutting prices. This year Detroit anticipated only a new Hudson-Essex line and new Reos. It eyed South Bend for a Studebaker announcement. In Indianapolis, Marmon had announced a new light eight, and Auburn another. John North Willys had already announced a new Willys-Knight 70, his Overland "Whippet" of 1926 having failed to excite the public as calculated. Fresh refinements, knickknacks, improved appearance were expected in such cars as Dodge, Nash and Chrysler, but nothing radical. All these companies finished the year strongly. Overshadowing everything was the apparent overhauling of Henry Ford in volume of unit production by General...