Judge — July 27, 1929 — page 28: what you’re looking at

Machine-transcribed from the original scan — historical spelling and the odd misread are preserved.

MARMON-BUILT | S NEW WORLD'S RUNS 440 HOURS WITHOUT SINGLE STOP OF ENGINE OR CAR Stock car, fully equipped Gas, oil, and water taken on fly Full A. A. A. supervision T 10 a. m., June 12, a Marmon-built Roosevelt 8, picked at random from the final assembly line of the Marmon by A. A. A. officials, started running Indianapolis Specdway under A. A. A. super vision to determine in an 1 test the stamina and armon’s new low-priced st ‘The run ay, dune & y which strewed t k with wreckage. car was running perfectly when its driver was forced to stop and had completed 440 hours, 30 minutes (over 1S days) of con- tinuous operation. Al previous records for non-stop engine A COMPARISON OF RE-FUEL- and ration we ershadowed— ING IN THE AIR AND ON THE the Roosevelt record being nearly three times GROUND—Above,“‘mother” car that of the previous non-stop mark, which ‘i < was 162 hours. feeding gasoline to Roosevelt on the run, under supervision of A. A.A. i" Special C officials. Water and oil were also taken _ Not a Special Car by the Roosevelt “in flight” and fresh e Y object of the test was to ap- crews off deivers went in every Gght ge user conditions of a car in hours. At right—Re-fueling in theair, f :. The car, therefore, was absolutely hich Marmon got the idea of stork in every tee basil decal aud com- . pletely equipped—ready for the road. teling on the ground. No attempt was made to see how fast the Roosevelt would run, the big point being to see how long it would run without stopping, without shop attention of any kind, at normal A PLACE TO WATCH YOUR STEP! Both cars of course were moving as this change took place. A fresh crew of drivers went aboard the Roosevelt every eight hours, but the car itself seemed to have no give-up to it. Re-fueling or “mother” car served as a traveling base. 26 comicbooks.com