Pikes Peak Descent Made with Foot Brakes Only This Rolls Royce climbed Pikes Peak without dropping into low and without boiling over. Then it made the descent without resorting to compression or hand brake. To descend from the top of Pikes Peak by motor car is something that wasn’t being done a great deal twenty years ago, and to drop down th... continued here
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Believing that most tire punctures are caused by old nails, Greensburg, Kansas, offers ten cents per pound for all old nails picked up on its streets. Small boys have already earned two hundred dollars in this way. The city then sells the nails as junk. Giant magnets seven feet long are to be hung under State highway trucks in South Dakota to pick... continued here
Road Improvement in America 1916
BY J. B. STONE-KING, M. E. THERE is such a heavy increase of traffic on all roads in this country, more especially on the main trunk highways between cities and towns of importance and the roads leading from the more populous country districts into the markets, that a very necessary and radical change has been forced in road building and improvemen... continued here
Four Wheel Brakes 1924
Four Wheel Brakes Most Valuable Development By Fred S. Duesenberg, Chief Engineer Duesenberg A. & M. Co. I BELIEVE the adoption of four wheel brakes the most valuable of present-day developments as it is such a factor tending for greater safety to the motorist and of equal importance to the pedestrian. In rainy and icy weather, slippery street... continued here
Balloon Tire Big 1924 Feature
By H. T. Thomas, Chief Engineer Reo Motor Car Co. OUTSTANDING developments and improvements in 1924 passenger cars as we see it are not the features most widely advertised or talked about. Detail improvements of all kinds are giving to the 1924 purchasers of motor cars greater comfort, safety and more for their money than ever before in the history... continued here
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 usual run of architecture and asked him to re-d... continued here
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 him or buy a new one and, without a la... continued here
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, stock market report or public... continued here
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 hour, and take along my friends and all the bundles we pleased. It was most ... continued here
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 gain of 1,883,718, or 8.8 per ce... continued here