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Newspaper
Quincy Whig
Location
Quincy, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Jun 25, 1916
Page
7
A seventeen year old boy purchases a Ford for his mother Mrs Florence Lewis who runs a garage with an older son. The sale was arranged by a polite Ford agent, who delivered the car and received payment on delivery. The piece ends with a quip about the meek inheriting the earth.
Track trials at Packard aviation field near Mt. Clemens Michigan tested a big 300 horsepower motor in a tractor type aeroplane car. The aeroplane car ran 102 miles in 59.56 minutes with speeds up to 118 mph. Public demonstrations may follow under A A A supervision.
An American assault used Dodge Brothers cars to reach Col. Julio Cardenas at the ranch near the Mexican border. Pershing ordered three Dodge cars to the division, speeding to the site at about 60 mph. Cardenas and two men tried to flee but were caught in a pistol duel. Cardenas was wounded and killed. The report contrasts the action with power plant details and Ford factory machinery, highlighting vast industrial scale and power needs.
The Ford Motor company factory power plant in Detroit features a mammoth switchboard designed to handle 250 volts and 225,000 amperes. It could light about 1.56 million electric lamps, occupying a 424 foot board mounted on 222 marble panels.
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