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the novelties at the British and French auta shows, they again look back with them ideas that may materialize in the United States and Canada a year later.
This seems to be nothing new in International practice, and the British and continental manufac turers are used to it. They have seen the four-wheel brake system, for instance, exported from their And own countries to Americn. they have ploneered in other ways that eventually found their popu- larity in America even more than in the innd of their birth.
So again this year the Olympia auto show in London and at the Grand Palais in Paris reveals Innovations that may eventually And their way to America. One
of these is the self-changing gear- This is so new. cvon here box. that it is still offered as extra equipment at a cost of from $175 to $250 extra,
and
Now features at the Olympia auto show in London. Upper photo shows the one-man folding top, while contro picture shows how this is worked from the driver's sent. Sketches show
rear
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REMARKABLE ESCAPES.
One of the most sensational motor, races in history took place on the Rockingham Speedway at.
Britain.
POWERFUL" CHAL- LENGE.
The floating by Mr. Henry Ford
Salem, New Hampshire, recently, uf a British company with a The race nvas a 200-mile event atracapital of seven million pounds is. practically all the crack drivers of an event of some importance in America were participating. From British industrial history, declares the outset the pace was terrife and tho New Statesman. It evidently the first sensation came only a faw: means the really serious entry minutes after the start, Frad of the Ford concorn into the Comer, one of the oldest and most British market, from which it has experienced board track drivers, at been partly driven of late years by the wheel of a Miller front-wheel the McKenna duties and the drive car. crashed in taking one of growth of the British production the bands, the cause of the of cheap cars. Mr. Ford's Irish accident being the bursting of a factory at Cork, it is stated, is to rear tyre. The car turned over be used entirely for the production three times in its mad carner and of Fordson lorries and tractors, finally came to rest with the wheels the existing Manchester plant la pointing skyward and Comer, who to be in the main an assembling Was underneath, died almost and distributing centre dor the North of England, while the big instantly.
new factory that fa to be bulit A few minutes later, when there at Dagenham on the Thames will was a bot battle for the load, turn out mass produced cars for Gipson, who headed the fold the British and other marketa. struck the iron guard rail round
The now Ford is, of course, from the track, the car leaping several the standpoint of the British car fact into the air and being thrown
user, a different affair from the to the bottom of the banking, | old; and it may be that Mr. Ford Glason was shot out and epr and bas in mind further adaptations driver rolled down the track to of his product to British con- gether. He was taken to the hos-ditions. His entry into the mar pital suffering from a broken ankloket will hardly be effective on the and a sprained wrist,
proposed scale for some time yet;
Ray Keech, the world's record but it clearly represents a very holder, was just behind and in try-powerful challenge to the British ing to clear Glason and his car, mass-producers who have imitated and adapted his methods. Apart wont elean off the boards across 10
from fis influence on the motor ft, of dirt on the Inside and came
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is placed at the side of the track for protection. He showed rare judgment and by the time the car Car-war In Great Britain will came to rest he was not seriously almost certainly lead to a speed- Injured. Directly behind Keeching-up of production all round, was Bob McDonough. Ho struck and a still more rapid incremes in Keech's car, but managed to keep the number of vehicles on the the right side up and drove on to roads. It has sometimes been the sand at the edge of the track suggested that the demand for and pulled up anfely. Moore, who motor-cars in England is not was second in this year'a Indiana far off saturation point. Mr. polis Tace, was right on the heels Ford evidently does not think so. of McDonough and he struck into Keech.
turned over. throwing Moare on to the track, and eventually righting itself in Moore, however, was
and the man going at incredible speed was the winner by a good f margin. Reaching the dirt on the inside of the track Evans was thrown to his test and walked to- wards those who were coming to his assistance. Ho did not even sustain a broken bone, although he had multiple minor injuries,
(1) chassis-lesa auto; (2) vanity compartment and mirror In back corner of sedan; (8) wider body reaching over rear wheels, and (4) door reaching down to running board, eliminating the valance. four-seater, and so have the small four- the dirt. Extending down to the running passenger modols. Ono eight, the uninjured and immediately gained board, such a wide door obliterates Hillman "20," has even ventured his feet and went to the assistance the thought of too squatty anto compole with the imported of Glason. appearance, although it still con- American cars of the same class
At the 58th mile Dave. Evans, veys a speedy, stream-line effect. which heretofore have had the piloting a rear-wheel drive Miller, American motorists may expect price market almost to themselves. got caught in an air pocket; the something new alan In the form of This is the first British or con-car immediately got out of control This Inst accident of a remark- four-door body without centre tinental eight that has sold below and dived for the steel guard rail able series decided the officials to pillars. In this case, the front $2,500. door closes over the rear door and; Finally, the International char. which, it hit with such force that bring the race to a conclusion, the
from the car. completely away
miles. The race had been in pro- holds both shut. This affords a acter of the Olympia show here the front wheel and axle were torn distance then covered being 62% wider entrance, a longer appear-promisos for the first time to be Evans, who at one time was a gress only 32 mins. 3 secs. (117 ance and a neater job.
adopted at the next New York auto With this reform in body design show. At the London show there cowboy in Texas, dived from hism.p.h.), which gives some idea of car and rolled barrel-like halfway the terrifle pace, which would have comes
needed wero 39 British exhibitors, 20 down the stretch with his car but been even greater had not the
22 French, innovation, at least from the American,
seven 10 ft. anvay. It was a rolling.race drivers been forced to slow down esthetic point of view. That is Italian, four Belgian, two Aus-between the man and the machine on several occasions.
German and оле the elimination of the luggage trian, two earrier in back. Instead, badles Spanish. "Frameless" Auto.
have been designed to flow back- Another innovation, perhaps ward, even behind the sedan, and still in the novelty class, to an make room for luggage just as is Automobile without 1 frame.done in the case of the coupe. Although this iden has been shown
This mechanism enables the driver to lift his control lover to a.higher gear even while the car la ranning a low. At the proper moment the actual shift is auto- matic, noiseless and smooth. The apparatus has been placed on the market only after two years. of experimentation.
anottier much
In many cases, at least, the extra
before, it is still a novelty in com- luggage box is designed to con- parison with other ideas that have form with the contour of the sedan been more widely adopted.
in back and so form a pleasing unit..
Inatend of the frame there is a single tubular backbone - which contains the drive shaft and sup- ports the entire body. The Austro-Daumier and the Tatra are two models showing this type of chassis in Paris.
Many Still on Trial.
Both the Olympla and the Paris shows have presented a profusion of new ideas in automobile design and engineering, many of which Although it may take some time are still more or less experimental. before anything like this will be To enumerate some of these, there seen in America, visiting Ameri- are the "sunshine" top, which rolls can manufacturers looked favour-back at the twist of a lever besido ably on what is called the valance-the driver; aide valves; overhead less body, The valance is that camshafts; front drive constrac- part of the frame between the run-tion with supercharger; separate ning boards and bottom of the whed suspension; one-shot chassis frame between the running boards and bottom of the doors.
In the valanceless body, the doors come all the way down to the running boards. This type of construction is especially suited to the real low cars that are being built here. They offset appearance of diminutivences that might seem objectionable,
lubrication; double spring suspen- sion; narrow frame and wide body; sloping windshield and lower frames.
Despite the popularity of the steel body in America, the fabric body seems to have a greater do themand in. England and the con-
New Ideas In Doors. In connexion with this type of body thero is the wider door, in fact a door that is wide enough to make room for entrance in front
FRENCH COMBINE.
Price-cut Scheme.
tinent. However, as a sop to the steel body maker, one manufac- turer here has developed a fabric that is hard to detect from steel whon Anished on a body,
A large number of new sixes and cights have come in this year,
The object of the group is to cut competition one with the other; to reduce the number of models produced; for each factory to con- centrate on one particular type of vehicle; to manufacturo parta purchases of material,
The Motoring Correspondent of the Daily Telegraph writes: Fol-for each other, and to pool the
lowing the exemple of the merging of interest by American motor- Comprehensive Range. manufacturers, a number of im-
The group will control a range portant French car-makora. ar- ranged to co-operats in production of models from the low-priced and manufacture. The group, small car upwards, including com- which at present produces 65,000mercial vehicles and tractora. cars a year-about one-third of It is intended to have an Intensive the total French output includes sales policy for the marketing of producte in England and the Do- the following firms:
Societe des Automobiles Donnet.minions, and the group will be in
a position to meet price competlj Messra, Chenard-Walcker.
tlon from British and American Messrs. Delahaye.
manufacturers,
Messrs. Rozengart (manufae- turers of the Austin "Seven" in France)
In addition to the above, two or three other firms of repute are about to join the combination.
Mr. Louis Carle and Mr. H. Boswell-Redd, both well known in the trade, have been appointed to represent the group in Great Britain,
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