Jasper County Democrat, Volume 20, Number 17, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 26 May 1917 — 36.8 MILES ON ONE GALLON [ARTICLE]

36.8 MILES ON ONE GALLON

Of Gasoline —Record Made by Ma.v- . \ wt’H Auto Wednesday. , In an official, test conducted under the auspices of A. E, Shafer jfc Son Wednesday, a Maxwell automobile covered the remarkable distance of 36.8 miles on one gallon of gasoline. It is the claim of the manufacturers that the Maxwell auto will cover more miles per nf gasoline than any other car made. Two cars that have been in use about a year, belonging to C. E. Prior and James N. Leatherman, were used in the test Wednesday. The Prior car was driven by Vern Sanders and carried Clifford Ham, Clyde Williams and Asa Snow as observers. The car was started at the State bank corner and stopped three miles beyond Monticello. The Leatherman car covered 31.8 iniles. It was driven by E. E. Shoemaker and carried' W. D. Bringle, J. C. Borntrager and J. M. Yeoman, as observers. This car was started at Earl Duvall’s corner and went to Remington and return and thence east about seven miles. The total distance covered was 31.8 iniles. ’ , Both cars were equipped with a one-gallon feed tank so arranged that when this was emptied the car stopped. The average speed maintained by both cars was between fifteen and twenty miles per hour. . Like tests were conducted by the Maxwell people all over the country and it is possible that considerably better records than this were made by some of the cars.