Indianapolis Times, Volume 41, Number 16, Indianapolis, Marion County, 30 May 1929 — Page 3

MAY 30, 1929.

i| ♦ | N I To'tbemanagementoj the Indian- f \\ apolis Motor Speed way, we pledge

Here is a mighty pageant of 150,000 people. Here several million dollars are

invested in order to run one race a-yean Here men risk life itself in an attempt to

travel taster. Is this merely a thrill of a moment? Is this simply anoxher great sporting spectacle? Another Derby?

STRAIGHT-EIGHT LEADERSHIP ON THE SPEEDWAY Sine* every place in every race has heen von by a straight-eight. So pronounced has become this supremacy that this year a!! cars entered except one. are straisht-fiehts. STRAIGHT-EIGHT LEADERSHIP BY M ARM ON Marmon. following straight-eight development on the Speedway, has incorporated in its products aIK proved engineering advances. Marmon is the first of all manufacturers to make the straight-eight available in all price fields. Roosevelt. $995: Marmon 68. $1465: Marmon *B. $1965. Prices ?t tartorv. Group equipment -xtra.

It's more than this—far deeper in its significance! Out there on that track a hundred new devices

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—a score of new principles are being tried out. Some will come through! Others will fail! Many of these new things will, in time, find their way into your motor car. New

developments —new applications which will make it possibl i for you to travel

faster, more comfortably and safer. So today on this, the greatest of all proving grounds, you are seeing in the making many of the things you will be using tomorrow. ff * Eighteen years ago today on this track the famous Marmon Wasp won the first foo mile race. The Wasp is on display for Speedway Visitors at the Marmon "Sales Branch , Meridian at Eleventh. Marmon Motor Car Company of INDIANAPOLIS, INDIANA

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