I 10 GOODWIN'S WEEKLY
I . MOTOR MOTIONS
H'p It is doubtful if any motor car in Utah, has at-
H1 I tracted more attention than the new 1911 touring
m ?i model Franklin recently purchased by George T.
m I Odell, manager of the Consolidated Wagon & Ma-
m chine company.
B The car was received by the company early
This hood with its strong racy lines and French
distinctiveness is easily the most pronounced fea
ture of the new Franklins, and so unusual is its
design that it makes the Franklin more than ever
a car impossible for a prospective buyer who is
unfamiliar with motor cars in general, to confuse
with any other machine on the American market.
In finish and contour it is one of the hand
somest cars ever brought into the intermoun'aiii
H MR. GEORGE T. ODELU AND PARTY. IN MR. ODELL'S NEW 1011 TRANKLIN TOURING (JAR
H H in the year and was purchased by Mr. Odell sev-
Bjj eral weeks ago. It is the latest type of Frank-
H lin touring car manufactured and is as beautiful
B and finished a product as that famous concern
Htf has ever sent out. It is a six-cylinder car. known
B as Model H, of forty-eight horsepower, fore-door
Bf and finished with the new Renault hood adopted
H by the Franklin company for its 1911 models.
country and It was purchased by Mr. Odell after
severe and exhaustive tests of ifs superiority over
the Franklin models that have preceded it. The
fact that Mr. Odell has owned three or four other
Franklins in which he ihas traveled more than
fifty thousand miles, placed him in a position to
judge of the car from the standpoint of a motor
ing expert, i
Nationally there is plenty of activity among
the professional racing drivers who head the
various teams representing manufacturers and
who are entering with their cars for the early
fjpeed contests throughout the east.
The contest board of the American Automobile
Association has just announced a number of S9
kVere penalties imposed on that coterie of the
drivers who have been racing on outlawed tracks
the past year. It will be remembered that Bar
ney Oldfleld was originally barred for participat
ing in a match race with the colored champion,
Jack Johnson. Since then he has taken part in
two racing events unsanctioned by the A. A. A.
and as a result he has had an additional three
months tacked on to his term of suspension, i?o
that he cannot now participate in any match
held under the sanction of the A. A. A. until
July 1, 1912. Ben Kercher, who appeared in Salt
Lake with Oldfleld in their exhibition driving at ,1
the Buena Vista track, is also under suspension J
until July 1 1912. George H. Clark, another Gf
driver of national reputation, raced under a
false name a few weeks ago and he is out until
April 1, 1913. Oldfield's famous two hundred
horse-power Benz car, and Kercher's Knox and
Darracq are disqualified The San Antonio track,
on which Oldfleld, Kercher and Clark raced, ts
barred until April 1, 1913.
Before the close of the present month, six
Packard 30 touring cars and phaetons will leave
the Packard factory for Salt Lake. All of these
cars have been sold and will toe delivered im
mediately upon arrival. One Packard-30 touring
car painted in French blue with dark blue stripes
goes to Rodney T. Badger. Another of the Pack
ard 30'c finished in blue will be delivered to'
Joseph Keefer, and a Packard 30 phaeton will go
to George Steiner. Jerome Bourgard will receive
a 30 phaeton finished in French grey, and Mrs
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