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Few motorists, probably, give a thought to the origin of the names of their cars, The name may be familiar enough to everybody, but its excot origin is rarely referred to, and is often forgotten oven by the manufacturors concerned.

There are three ways of arriv ing at a name for & now make of tar. One is to call it after a certain person, the second to use the initials of the company's title, and the third to invent, or borrow, a name which it is thought will fit the caso. The great majority of ears are named after of her their designer or the man origin. ally concerned in organizing the company. Daimler is called after Gotlieb Daimler, who was one of of the poople chiefly responsible for the original motor car. De

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Dion comes from the Marquia names. Perhaps the more inter- for those at prosont connected originally to "a carrior trioyola De Dion ;Panhard, an abbrevia-esting section, however, is made with the company have no notion which the firm constructed. • The tion of Panhard et Lovassor, was up. of those for whom a special whatever as to how the name prociso origin of Rhode is onlg one of the most famous pioneers name has been chosen. When, arose. Perhaps some reador willmatical i.

for instance, the originators of ho able to solve the puzzla. La- the Waverley car sat in conclave gonda is in a way, even more to decide the vexing question of interesting, as one would imagine, Its name, every kind of suggesat first sight, that this must be a tion and idea was in turn word with some meaning, and examined and rejected, the choice actually the manufacturers state finally falling on one man's that it was simply a made-up favourite books-the Waverley w. rd chosen bocause it sounded novels."

In the motoring movement; Voi- sin, Riley, Romeo, Morris, Singer, Rolls-Royce, Citroen, and Austin are other examples; t

Namos composed of Initials are chiefly used by French or Italian firms: Fiat boing an abbreviation of Fabrica Italiana Automobili Torimo; S.L.I.M, of Socleto Lyon- nuiso d'Industrie Mochaniquo; S.P.A., of Socicta Ligure Piemont ese Automobili. G. W. K. is made up of Grico, Wood and Keillor, the three men originally responsiblo for the firm; A.B.C. is a reminiscence of the All British Engine Co.; F.N. in short for Fabrique Nationale dos Armos de Guerre; and B.S,A, of the Birmingham Small Arms."

CURIOUS CHOICE. There are, of course, many other arms with initial-letter

wall Curiously enough, there is another Eaganda Company, in Springfield, USA., but this has no connection with the British Arm."

Considerable controversy has béon aroused concerning the namo Alvis, which was stated by some people to be taken from that of a dwarf famous, in mythology. PERSONALITIES AND PLACES, It is, in actual fact, bowever, & Sometimos, the name of a car is pot name of someone associated compounded of that of a person with the company in its early and a place, as for example the days, and chosen because i Aston-Martin, in which Aston sounded well and because it wouldrofors to the famous hill. Aston bring the car almost to the hond of any alphabetical lists which were published.

Tho namo Clyno is mysterious

Clinton, on which hill-climbs have taken place in the past. A.C. has another derivation, as it means Auto Carriors, and referred

By the way. It is odd that no car has ever been called Dorcas, a name particularly applicable in connection with good works. Cadillac has a rather romantic, origin. In the old days a member. of the Fronoh nobility, Soigneur, Antoine de la Motho Cadillao, founded the city of Detroit, which now is the horpe' of the motor car industry in the United States, and after him this particular card was named.' '.':'

The Vauxhall was called aftor the Vauxhall Engineering Co... which in its turn owed its name to the situation of the firm'e then premises in London. As rogarda the Trojan, the phrase "working like a Trojan" may be cited.

So behind many of the names. thoro ie a little history, and somb times romance,

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