. The Saturday evening post. /In un-rclourhed photograph of the veteran Goodyear highway transport whichholds the worlds record Jor a trip by motor truck from Los Angeles to New York Copyright t°20. by The Goodyear Tire & Rubber Co. THE SATURDAY EVENING POST 89 Quickening the Nations TransportWith the Easy-Rolling Pneumatics At 11:15 p. m. on June 20th, 1920, certain New Yorkers, homeward bound fromBroadway entertainment, saw a huge motor truck on big pneumatic tires loomingup in the glare of West Side street lights. Exactly 13 days, 13 hours and 15 min-utes before, this highway cruiser had bo
. The Saturday evening post. /In un-rclourhed photograph of the veteran Goodyear highway transport whichholds the worlds record Jor a trip by motor truck from Los Angeles to New York Copyright t°20. by The Goodyear Tire & Rubber Co. THE SATURDAY EVENING POST 89 Quickening the Nations TransportWith the Easy-Rolling Pneumatics At 11:15 p. m. on June 20th, 1920, certain New Yorkers, homeward bound fromBroadway entertainment, saw a huge motor truck on big pneumatic tires loomingup in the glare of West Side street lights. Exactly 13 days, 13 hours and 15 min-utes before, this highway cruiser had borne eastward out of Los Angeles. In theinterim, it had broken the worlds truck record for this coast-to-coast run of 3,451miles; indeed, had covered the distance in the actual running time of 13 days and5 hours flat. Although a heavy duty transport with a previous record of 120,000miles traveled in 32 states, including three former transcontinental trips, ithad overwhelmed the time schedules of all other trucks, light a
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