Archive for the 'Automotive' Category

Fish Oil as Fuel for Car Engines 1927

COMING: THE FISH-OIL MOTOR
The possibility of farming the sea for motor-fuel, after all the oil and gasoline are gone, is indicated by studies of the use of fish oils and other animal oils as motor fuels reported to the French Academy of Sciences, in Paris, by Messrs. Georges Lumet and Henri Marcelet. Says Dr. E. [...]

DUI Tests 1927

TESTS FOR DRUNKENNESS
JUST HOW DRUNK must a man be to make him unsafe as a motorist? This is the problem that has been bothering British experts, as already noted in these columns.
The British Medical Journal (London) tells us that for several years public attention has been aroused by convictions of persons charged with drunkenness when [...]

European Touring Roads 1927

A NEW FRANCO-GERMAN WAR OF MOTOR-TOURIST ROAD BUILDING
SHALL France or Germany capture the bulk of the American and English automobile traffic that sweeps southward each year for those tourist paradises, Switzerland and Italy? That question became a vital one when the French awoke recently to the significance of Germany’s newly hatched plans for great [...]

1920’s Automobiles

During the 1920’s cars progressed from being fairly sparce and utilitarian vehicles to practical vehicles that were more reliable, comfortable, technically innovative, and stylish. Manufacturers strived to out-do each other in advancements in all aspects of automobile construction and stylingÂ in order to increase their market share and profits.
As cars became more mechanically reliable, comfortable, and [...]

Steel Wheels for Cars 1925

Steel Wheel Advertisement from 1925Â
Source: Motor Magazine, January 1925
THOUSANDS of tests have proven the artillery type spoke wheel the most practical and durable of popular type wheels. A careful study of “wheel-ology” will show that spoke wheels withstand the greatest shocks without damage to axles, bearings, or the car itself.
Steel Wheels - Where Strength Is [...]

Torque Converter Developments 1927

NO MORE SHIFTING GEARS
At a recent meeting of the Royal Society of Arts, in London, Mr. George Constantinesco delivered, by invitation of the Society, a lecture describing recent developments of his remarkable device called the “torque converter,” replacing the usual gear-shift systems of automobiles and similar machines. Says Dr. E. E. Free, in his Week’s [...]

Pressed Metal Developments 1927

INCREASED USE OF PREST METAL
THIS interesting feature of the year’s iron industry is reported in The Iron Trade Review (Cleveland), by Ethan Viall of that city, a former editor of The American Machinist. Mr. Viall attributes it to refinements in mechanical processes, and to more extensive employment of welding and improvements in the finishing of [...]

Automotive Advances for 1929

AUTOMOBILE ACHIEVEMENTS 1929
by ALFRED REEVES
General Manager,
National Automobile Chamber of Commerce
WHILE the motor production for the year just concluded was climbing well above the five-million mark, and sales abroad were in the neighborhood of one million vehicles, scientific advances were underwriting stability for the motor industry.
In short, we cannot divorce the study of this industry from [...]

Take Your Own Car to Europe 1927

TAKING YOUR OWN CAR TO EUROPE” MADE EASIER
A LARGE travel for next year of American motorists taking their own cars to and from Europe is now assured, we read in a Montreal dispatch to the New York Herald Tribune, by the new arrangements which have been made by the Montreal Motorists League in cooperation with [...]

Tropic-Aire Car Heaters 1929

TROPIC-AIRE
The Original Fan-Equipped Hot Water Automobile Heater
LET the freezing weather come! Let the cutting wind sweep down from the North! You’ll feel none of the outside cold as you drive along, if your car is equipped for winter with a Tropic-Aire
It fills the car with the genial warmth of June. For no source of heat [...]