INDIANA4>OLIS PIK€S P€AK toOOKLANDS ACROSS US A. INTERNATIONAL On the great Indianapolis Speedway every The famous Pike's Peak Annual On March 26th of last year a standard The well-known racing driver " Cannon "A thousand times mere difficult than ite 500-mile race for the past ten years has races brought forth last year an out- model of a well known car carryng its Ball" Baker in 1927 drove a fully loaded name suggests ", says « The Motor " of the heen won on Firestone Cum-Dipped standing record for the endurance full five passenger Saloon body with 2-ton truck from the Atlantic to the great International Contest of 1,850 milea Tires, in 1925 Peter De Paolo doing 500 and safety of Firestone Gum-Dipped full touring equipment and fitted with Pacific—a distance of 3,693 miles—in from Stockholm to Monte Carlo won last miles at 101 m.p.h. for a world record. Tires. In these races a Firestone Firestone Gum-Dipped Tires created a 237 hours and 36 minutes. This fastest year in the, amaring time of 74 hoars 17 Last year's annual 500 mile race was won equipped ear lowered the stock car sensation at Brooklands by establish- and longest truck run on record was minutes, by a stock model Firestone eqnippby Ray Keech at an average of 97*5. record time, followed clogely by the ing two International Class B Records made on Firestone Gum-Dipped Heavy cd car against 93 of the world's finest eani, mai-h., the winner and NEXT FIVE TO second and third prize winners, also namely 200 Kilometers and 200 miles. Duty Pneumatics WITHOITT A TIRE under conditions so terrible that oaljr 24 FINISH using Firestone Balloon*. on Firestone. The average speed in the 200 miles CHANGE. finished in time. '"'-'■ ■-■ '•' .....-•.■ ' event was 77*77 m.p.h. , ' ' ' ■■; *■ - . NINFTy MILE B£AC« N€W Z-EALAND Crowning this impressive list of records that have been made on Firestone Cnm-Dipped Tires throughout the world, is the recent sensational achievement, right on our own shores, of W 09^K0^^k ' Wizard Smith who established a new World's record for 10 * 1 M^ m _^dflß^fe^^,^_ miles at an average speed of 148-637 m.p.h. on Ninety Mile • WF m J^^^^^B& >~2 Beach. \ 1 / These actual world records in every conceivable phase of V' W M \ service should be your guide in buying tires. > .
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Evening Post, Volume CIX, Issue 57, 8 March 1930, Page 29
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