Roosevelts Record

When, last month, Aviators James Kelly and R. L. Robbins remained aloft over Fort Worth, Tex., for 172 hrs. 32 mins. 1 sec., great was public interest. No motored vehicle, land, sea or air, had ever before run so long without stopping. Last week, however, two Roosevelt stock sedans drove ground and round the Indianapolis motor speedway without stopping, reached, then far passed the airplane record. One stopped after 231 hrs. and 41 min. The other passed the 300 hour mark, kept going. Drivers (who worked in shifts) included Aviators Kelly and Robbins, who thus helped to break on land the record they had made in the air.*

*In 1926 two other aviator-automobilists, Round-the-World-Flyers Leigh Wade amd Linton Wells, made a non-stop Packard trip from Los Angeles to New York.