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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LI, Issue 16719, 2 May 1925, Page 9

Driving a Chrysler Six touring car—strictly stock in every detail except that a gear ratio of 3.75 to 1 had been substituted for the standard 4.6 to I—RALPH de PALMA, the famous racing driver, made 1000 miles in 786 minutes 6/15 seconds'" elapsed time on the Culver City track near Los Angeles on sth January last —an average of 76.32 miles an hour. This is the fastest speed average ever made by a passenger automobile in such a distance run. NOT A SINGLE STOP WAS MADE FOR MECHANICAL ADJUSTMENT or Tyre Changes, and NOT A DROP OF WATER WAS ADDED TO THE RADIATOR. Chrysler, in this latest run, is faster by 1 hour 2 minutes and 25 3/5 seconds than the fastest time ever made in a similar event, The run was clocked and the time certified by the American Automobile Association, and Harry Miller, the famous engine builder, checked and certified that the car was stock in every respect except gear ratio. It is cr.e thing to show a burst of speed for a mile or so. It is quite another to hold that speed for 1000 miles. The first takes ppwer alone —the second, power plus unprecedented endurance. Endurance in high speed work was the real test put up to the car. The combination of 1000 miles at an average speed, including stops for benzine and oil, of 76.32 miles an hour, is a speed that tells a story of amazing endurance. % • A car with destructive vibration could not stand 1000 miles at 76 miles or even 56 miles an hour. An engine with anything but a perfect oiling system would be wrecked long before it travelled 1000 miles with the throttle wide open. A car with anything but a perfect cooling system could not possibly keep an engine cool at its topmost effort for more than 13 hours. ' , / 66 ■ Local Representatives : ALLEN BROS. & JOHNSTONE CrISB ORNE. N.Z. Distributors: TODD MOTOR CO.

Now Zealand, long famous for its dairy produce, meat, hides, footwear, tweeds, blankets and rugs, bids fair to become no less celebrated for its tobacco. After many .years of experimenting, experts have at length succeeded in producingtobaccos (grown and cured witlii.il the Dominion) which ih certain respects are actually superior to the best imported. The latter frequently contains an excess of nicotine, while the former contains comparatively little, with Hie result that you can smoke-these pure tobaccos with impunity, and their cultivation is likely to prove an inestimable value to liieii on the land because Ihc average yield of a tobacco crop is worth £SO per acre nett. Strange to say. the barren gum country in the North, while quite unsuitable for ordinary crops, grows splendid tobacco, and ultimately the industry must prove of national importance. N.Z. tobacco is already on the market and selling well, so smokers can “try it out” for themselves. Ask for “Tfivevliead Gold" mild', “Naw Cut” (Bulldog) medium, or “Cut Plug No. 10” fßullsheadl full strength. MILK' DOCKETS and Milk Record Books, ready printed, at Herald Office.