Jasper County Democrat, Volume 23, Number 71, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 1 December 1920 — A STOCK FRANKLIN TOURING CAR [ARTICLE]

A STOCK FRANKLIN TOURING CAR

set up a new Virginia road record on October 21, when it broke the best train time between Bristol and Radford, Va. These two cities are 100.51 miles apart by rail. The feat is the more remarkable because the, roads traversed are among the worst in the east. H. F. Potts, who drove the car, made the run (112.8 miles by road) In three hours and twenty-five minutes, thus beating the Southern railroad time by five minutes, and the N. & W. time by fifty-eight minutes. Potts’ record is considered exceptional in view of the condition of the roads and because of the fog, which at times was so dense that it waa difficult to see twenty-five yards ahead. Only a week before, the same car was driven 100 miles in low gear without once stopping the engine, and to prove that the car had not been injured in any way by the performance, it was put through a gasoline economy test on high and chalked up a record of 40 miles per gaIIon.—THOMPSON & KIRK.