Archive for the 'Cars' Category

Prediction that Cars will cause Obesity 1923

DO MOTOR CARS MAKE US LAZY?
THERE CAN BE NO QUESTION about the usefulness of automobiles, says a writer in The Medical Review of Reviews (New York), nor about the desire for leisure
which makes up the large number of people who drive, not because they are in a hurry or have to cover long distances, but [...]

Cooking While Driving 1930

COOKING WITH AUTO EXHAUST
Meals can literally be cooked on the run through the use of an automatic cooker described in Modern Mechanics (Minneapolis, June). We read:
“The cooker is mounted on the rear bumper of the motor tourist’s car, and an extension from the exhaust pipe connected up with it, as shown in the insert. The [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]