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 [...]

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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 [...]

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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 [...]

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

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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 [...]

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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 [...]

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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 [...]

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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 [...]

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