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  • Jack Benny riding in 1906 Maxwell Automobile in Anaheim Civic Progress Week Parade<br /> <br /> :View of Jack Benny, on his first visit to Anaheim, riding with Santa Ana Superior Court Judge Raymond H. Thompson in a 1906 Maxwell automobile (with sign proclaiming "Jack Benny's Maxwell" in front window) along the parade route for Anaheim's "Civic Progress Week" celebration; route started at Palm and Center Streets (now Harbor and Lincoln Blvds.) and ended at the Elks Club (423 N. Los Angeles Street, now Anaheim Blvd.); excited residents surrounding the car include (at left side) six-year-old David Faessel, Anaheim Police Officer Joe Miranda (out of uniform) and Frank Belmont, owner of the Granada Packing House
  • An antique 1923 Maxwell automobile owned by Jack Benny, the "Cheapest Man in the World" was used as a running gag on both radio (first appeared in 1937) and later on his TV comedy series THE JACK BENNY SHOW/CBS/1950-64. Jack insisted that he could always get a few more miles out of his beat up jalopy. But for all of his tinkering, the car usually drove for about 15 minutes at which time the radiator boiled over, forcing Jack to wait for the engine to cool down before moving along. Jack bought the car second-hand from a dealer called the Smiling Pilgrim. Once Jack saw his servant Rochester (Eddie Anderson) daintily sponging down the car. "For Heaven sake, Jack yelled "Why don't you use the garden hose on it?" Rochester answered, "Don't you remember the last time I used the hose on it, Boss? The fender fell off!" When the car's engine started on radio, the listening audience heard the rich asthmatic, wheezing and clinking mechanical sounds of an ancient automobile engine that was reluctant to start. Mel Blanc, (a.k.a. "the Man with a Thousand Voices"). first supplied the engine noises when the sound technician's machine failed on the air. Blanc's "P-tui, p-tui, b-lit, b-lit, p-tui" sputtering and chattering saved the skit. Jack Benny loved his impersonation of a rattletrap, coughing engine so much that he replaced the sound technicians with the talents of Mel Blanc. The black 1923 Maxwell convertible spoken of in Jack Benny's act is now on display at the Harrah National Auto Museum located at 10 Lake Street South in Reno, Nevada. License numbers seen through the years included 4X-88-61
  • Pulling Alice Ramsey's Maxwell automobile out of a ditch<br /> <br /> In 1909, Alice Huyler Ramsey, of Hackensack, New Jersey, became the first woman to drive across the United States. Challenged by a sales manager for Maxwell-Briscoe Company, she drove one of the company's touring cars from New York to San Francisco. The company sponsored and publicised the trip to persuade the American public that cars were here to stay. American roads were still often unimproved in 1909, and Ramsey and her three female passengers packed a block and tackle and used it often in the muddy Midwest
  • Alice Ramsey and her companions on the road, 1909
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