Archive for September, 2006

Beautifying Service Stations 1927

NOW that the automotive industry has developed to the point where methods and products are fairly standard it would be appropriate if a good measure of attention might be given to the more attractive design of buildings.
MoToR asked James R e n w i c k Thomson, a New York architect, his opinion of the [...]

The Bungalows Furniture

If, after having been built with great respect for harmony and appropriateness, the bungalow should be filled with the usual collection of badly designed and inadequate furniture, the ensemble would be distressing, and the thought involved in the structure of the building thrown away.
The term furniture implies, per se, movable portions of the building, and, [...]

1930 Indianapolis 500 Rules

YOUNG America is interested in the 500-mile race at Indianapolis, next Memorial Day. Interested, because in a measure the bars have been let down. This year it will not be necessary to spend the large sum for a mount which regulations since the War have required. The youth can take the roadster his father gave [...]

Radio in Automobiles 1930

IS radio entertainment going to take to wheels? Is the equipment of a few thousand of the world’s thirty million cars with receivers and speakers to be extended until a majority of motorists, bowling along the open road or parked at a secluded recreation spot, can tune in on symphony or jazz, sermon or monologue, [...]

Learning to Drive in 1929

I Learned to Drive and so can You
by Georgianna Conkling – Over 50 and a Grandmother
I WAS tired of waiting for crowded street cars. If I wanted to visit my old home, I was obliged to travel three hours by train and boat, while if I had a car I could drive over in an [...]

U.S. Motor Vehicle Registrations 1930

MOTOR vehicles registered in the United States on January 1 numbered 26,562,713 compared with 24,479,648 on January 1, 1929, an increase of 2,083,065, or 8.5 per cent. The gain was 53 per cent larger than in the previous year when it was 1,359,883, or 5.9 per cent over 1927.
The passenger car total was 23,262,843, a [...]

1930 Automotive Developments

The Public becomes an Engineerâ€” and much of the 1930 automobile is in response to what “the people demand” although it may not always be best
By HAROLD F.BLANCHARD Technical Editor of MoToR, January 1930
WITH the advent of 1930 have come interesting automotive developments. The sixteen cylinder car makes its debut. Front drive has arrived and [...]

The Stock Market is NOT America

1930 Should Be a Good YearÂ (As perceived by the Automobile Industry)
THERE are millions of people in America who are bored with newspaper
headings telling about the latest “market news.” It meant nothing to them in
the first place. Like the two well known comedians they “would rather hear
nothing more about it.” They would much prefer to [...]