Archive for the 'Automotive' Category

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

Influence of the Automobile 1927

THE AUTOMOBILE’S INFLUENCE ON TRADE CENTERS NOT only do people go farther to buy the necessitiesâ€”and luxuriesâ€”of life since the advent of the automobile, but they tend to locate in the larger centers of population.Â This is the conclusion reached by the New York Journal of Commerce after reading of the survey made by the [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]