Evening Republican, Volume 15, Number 268, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 13 November 1911 — Page 4 Advertisements Column 2 [ADVERTISEMENT]

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With a team of 3 perfect-score cars,' Maxwell is the only one of 64 competitors to finish the gruelling 1454mile journey without a single penalty. Another Maxwell entered by Governor Hoke Smith of Georgia finished with a perfect score, competing for the individual prize and was awarded the Anderson Trophy, also

'T'H REE Maxwell Cars which left New York on October 14th, finished their 1454-mile journey at Jacksonville with a perfect score and were Awarded the Glidden Trophy Of 64 of America’s leading cars, some costing $5,000 each, which competed in the most gruelling contest in motor car history, the Maxwell came through as the Only Team With Perfect Score Whirling over the roads at railroad speed, plowing through mud and sand, fording swollen streams, pounding over the Appalachian ’Mountains through a cloudburst, and surmounting obstacles that no ordinary tourist would ever meet, they led the way into each control with time-table precision and justly earned the title of A. A. A National Touring Championship They completed their daily journey on the exact schedule, although several times the committee conducting the event had to extend the fixed schedule time to offset unexpectedly difficult conditions met with. The Maxwells never needed these extensions. The victory of the Maxwell entered by Gov. Hoke Smith in

‘ SOMETHING YOU OUGHT TO KNOW Of course you know about the Glldr den Tour, the greatest American anAyk nual endurance contest, which shows better than any other competition the quality and stamina of a car which, ventures into it.

United Motor Chicago Co., Jacksonville, Fla., October 26th, 1911. 18th St. and Michigan Ave., Chicago. Maxwell wins Glidden Tour, finishing with only perfect score. Stevens-Durvea team penalized 19 points, Cadillac 23. Ford 125, Cadillac 279, Marathan 509, Flanders 1028. Following teams withdrawn unable to finish under rules: Oldsmobile, Halladay, Metz, Flanders, and combinations of American-Thomas-White, Pierce-Marmon-Pierce, Cole-White-Cadillac, Garford-Mitchell-Schacht, and Corbin-White-Thomas. Governor Hoke Smith’s Maxwell wins Anderson Trophy for best individual score regardless of price or class. M. H?NEWTON.

This year’s Glidden Tour has just finished. There were 74 cars and 19 teams. When the contestants —those that remained of the 74 entries—had speeded ovex few roads that were worthy of that name, dimed over the Appalachian Mountains, forded swollen streams, and surmounted obstacles such as are not met by the motorist in ordinary touring, there was just one team left with a perfect score, absolutely unscathed, the motor purring as sweetly as when the cars left the starting point, 1494 miles away—and that as the Maxwell team, consisting of three Maxwell touring cars, just as they had come from the factory. So the classic trophy went to the Maxwell team. There was another Maxwell, the individual entry of Governor Hoke Smith, o< Atlanta, Ga. TMs car, too,