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The Transport

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ten years' service.

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really efficient suspension

the famous silent MORRIS onging --complete aquipment

Dunlop low-pressure tyres.

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-roomy English body

elegant appearance delightful colours.

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TRANSPORT EXHIBIT DRAWS VISITORS

AT BIG FAIR:

THE CHARIOTS OF' TUTANKHAMEN,-

SATURDAY NOVEMBER 27, 1926..

The tin-pediar's cart, one of the most popular and ploturesque vehiclos in the exhibit, came next. Long, low, with down- folding sides and long strap: aprings, this homoly vehicle found its prototype in the re- colloction of many who saw it. In a box by the wide sont reposod the horn which announced the podlar to the housewife, and the stoolyards for weighing the bundles and bags of rage taken in oxolange for the pediuŸ's waroa. The wares thomsalvos

The outstanding oxbibit at the Ponnsylvania buckboard shown wore indicated although tho Michigan State Fair, Detroit, next would have looked very usual stock was often much more September 5 to 11, was the Ford oumbersome anywhere except bé- | oxtonsive. Milk pana, which Motor Company's display of the side the oxcart. Its heavy wheels preceded the centrifugal cream vehicles of all times. Authentic wore spoked, however, and not soparators, skimmers, kitchen specimens, taken from Mr. Henry solid, and the wooden seat had ware, clotheslinos, skawers, Ford's collection, were arranged the benefit of whutovor spring ita mouse traps, bolts of calico, print, in chronological sequence, oach four-foot woodon, supports im- and often more pretentious dross vohielo bearing a printed placard parted to it. The scop-shaped goods, were curried by these! oxplaining its ora and vogus. Frame had no more springs than carly forerunners of the storo-

The exhibit was sheltered under the oxcart.

ab-your-door. a large circular tant, ronohed by

a well-kept walk between groon lawns and clumps of afbor vitae,

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Beyond, toworing over the. little Pennsylvania baokboard, a Amorican Buggy, most built and Next in line was the Standard hnge conostoga wagon, or cover-exported of all vehiclos previous A high white archway marked ed wagon of the prairies, reared to the advent of the automobile. the entrance to the display. its white canopy. High in front. Its single seat was sheltered by The archway led into a forty high in the rear, this staunch, a leather top supported by four foot gallery divided lengthwise by sway-backed contraption served hingad iron uprights and a hinged a rope to form entrance and exit early Americans as vehiclo, home, bow on each sido. The body, & To the right of the entrance stood and fortress during a whole long narrow box with leather the beginning of the exhibit-two transportation era. Like its pre- dash, rested on a spring at each gilded, ombossed, and polychrom:

end. Its whools were low, narrow

ed replicas of the golden chariots decessors, it was springless.

"American

of King Tutankhamon. To the A semblance of "springs ap-syrod, and substantial. right of the exit, across the hall-poared in the next vehicle, the

The Cut. Under way, stood a Lincoln sport phao-western buckboard, with its high, Buggy came next, a vehicle much ton, marking the end of the ex-light wheels and narrow, half-used by dbetors and professional hibit and the limit to which land round iron tyros suited for ford-men in the early sixties. Solid transportation has been pushed og rocky crock beds and spinn-rubber tyres appeared for the first by man in the 3,000-year interval ing along over cactus-boardered, time in the exhibit on its wheels. depicted by the exhibit."

sandy trails. These, with the springy frama and louthor A Single Victoria with curved cushion, gave the first hint of thills, graceful brackets, and be Įspeed and comfort, although thore autiful hood, with single outside was no provision for a top of any bows, stood next in line. Beside kind.

it stood a similar single-Victoria with a roar. perch for a couch- man. A larger, more luxurious Victoria with elunting-seat driver's box in front complated the Victoria display.

THE CHARIOTS OF TUTANKHAMEN,

vogue.

The chariots had been made for the great Wembley Exhibit in England in 1925 and were replices Iron springs, eight in all, ap in ovorything but materials of peared on the next vehicle in those taken from the tomb of line, the mighty stagecoach of King Tutankhamen. They had mid-nineteenth-century bhon placed, together with count-In fact the iron work on this less other requirements, of the vehicle was as noticeable as the daily existance of the kings of wood. It held twenty to twenty- Egypt, close to the body of Tu-four passengers and baggage, on tankhamen, to serve him in the its various seats, inside and out, life which he believed followed reached by a series of iron steps. death. They bore dates which A heavy iron "shoor on a chain, would now be expressed as 1,358 served, as a brake. Two large conch lantorns lighted the road, Passing through the gallery one can imaging how inadequate beyond the chariots, visitors en-ly. tored the large tent in which the

B.C.

Cab

SHADES OF THE GIBSON GIRL.

Next came the ornate Hansom behind, brackets to lead the reins with high driver's seat to his hands, and panelled and glazed apron doors to fold over the occupants, against the wea. ther. It needed but the Gibson Girl in many-ruffed evening

vehicles of man were arranged in? Separated from the stagecoachcape and pomadour, with her the sequence of their use..

by an American high buggy, a mustached companion in bell- The first mode of conveyance

light vehicle. with fifty-inch crowned opera hat, to take one shown in the tent was an oxcart. narrow wheels and two and back to the Fifth Avenus of the

nineties. Crude, oumbersome, massive, springs, was the Concord stage. the solid wood this vehicle transportod of all climes for countless genera- tions even until to-day, for it MMMN is still in use in nearly every

country of the globe.

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The last of the horse-drawn vehicles WOS the inclosed the rubbor-tyred symbol of luxury-the back which was displaced only by the closed car.

coach of "C.T. Shorer, Worcester and Fall River, Massachusetts." Striped and garishly decorated Brougham. one imagined that it gave its six or eight passengers a fairly com- fortable ride over strap springs to Marlboro, Northboro, Shrews- bury and Worcester, as the black- The exhibit.next showed bicyo- lottering on the yellow field do-les. First came heavy, cumber- clared. Lighter and faster than somo, unsprung, wooden-wheeled the western stagecoach, the mail models which must have made coach served every countryside walking seem"delightful. The in Amorica during its era. It idea of speed contained in their was the true fororunner of the names. Velosipedes," was not railroad, and its use was felt for reflected by their appearance, generations in improved social, although perhaps they seemed and business relations as well as fleat in their day, 1868-9. In any improved roads. There are many event, they left ample room for finely ballasted highways today improvements, and subsequent which 'find their origin directly models displayed radical onos.. in the old mail coach roads in the A Columbia Two-Track Tricycle, 19th and 20th centuries,

that is, with a larger and a The next vehicle, the heavy, smaller wheel in line and another high, two-wheeled Calash may large wheel on one side, showed elfll be seen in daily use about a variation of the bicycle, with the steep streets of Quebec. It is an attempt at stability and com- falsa culled a carqueho there, and fort. The mechanism by which its high-curled leather spring this remarkable affair was driven supports are a familiar sight in and controlled must have spomed and about the old fortified city. even more complicated in its day

The one-Horse Shay which than it does now. made. its appearance in the COT-FOWER TRANSPORTATION. American Colonies before 1700

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resombles the Calash with its High-wheeled bicycles-follow-cars, ending with the sport three-motor, allmetal Ford mon- leather springs, heavy 62 inch Led, with wheels becoming pro- phaston which stood on one side oplane, under one wing of which wheels, and beautiful leather gressively smaller, thon. tood. According to Oliver Wen-tandem, a three seater, and a four of the entrance.

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dell Holmes it was built to last seater introduced a bicycle of

one hundred years to a day,"

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practically the same modol ak

auch comment when first dn-

stood the first Ford car," and under the other the tiny Ford- In inspecting this exhibit one built airplane which caused so and the specimen on exhibit took that in vogue at prosent. The walked in a circle around the nounced by. Mr. Ford on July. ed its reputation for durability. card attached to this bicyclo outer edge of the great tont which 30, his birthday.

The Colonial Gig appeared advised that it had been used by housed it. Within the centre of next in lino. Although Eghter Mr. Henry Ford in 1900 and Mr.,

exhibit.

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The little two-cyolinder car,

transportation modium, direct ancestor of the unbroken chain

than the Shay it much. rosombled Edsel B. Ford in 1915. A chain-the tent were five exhibits which forerunner of the world's greatest it with its two wheels, strapless bicycle and a twocylinder were constantly surrounded, springs, and leather hood like a motorcycle completed the bicycle sunhonnet.

A 1903 Darraquo limousine, of more than 14,000,000 Ford cars The Sociablo, one of the most

resplendent in bruss work and which is daily being increased pretentious carriagos in the ex- Then came the Ford car. A with a plate glass windshield like by many thousand, prosented no hibit, came next. Its vegue last-1903 Model A Ford runabout a store front, drew much atten- greater contrast to the sophisti ed more than a century and it appeared first, its red paint and tlon. Looming up beside it, on a cated eye than did the two mon was used extensively in America bright brass fittings as trim as on section of rook-ballasted track, oplanes, the mighty freight in the sixtios. The elaborateness the day it was completed. This was large wood-burning carrier and the diminutive ono- - of the coach work and the design car and the same model, but with locomotive, he Satilla, of the passenger. Interest in the exhibit, of the Sociable gave it a distinct a bustle-like tonneau attached, Atlantic and Gulf Railroad. one of the finest of its kind evor Empire effect. A coachman sat have been described too ofton to Polished so that it shore, this assembled," reached its peak at high in front of a deep, luxurious, warrant, repetition here, as has locomotive with its great spark- | this group. loather seat reached by folding the 1906 Model N which stood catcher funnel and tender piled steps and low doors The great beside" them.. loather hood spread over the seat

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lilgh with wood trust have caused many surprised shout of ap- like a tent. Strap and metal AUTOMOTIVE AND LOCOMOTIVE proval when it first appeared, hinges made it very comfortable The 1906 Model T had an in- instead of the amused "interest und two luntorns added to its torosted circle of spectators graco and completeness...

always around it. Nearly every. Almost eclipsed by the splendour

with which it was viewed in this exhibit.

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RUNS 750,000 MILES.

A one and one-half-ton truck one commented on the removal THE "PLANES: THE FIRST FORD. owned and operated, as a bus by of the Sociable was the Rack of the pump from the front of the

The last and mightiest group the Puget Transportation Co. of

away Carriage next to it. This radiator and the right-hand non- ornate and bofringed vohicle was trol.

made in Detroit about 1858 and

of the exhibit had something Tacoma, Wash, has travelled This

vies in beauty with the Chicago Then followed a complote line symbolic about it difficult to con- 750,000 miles since 1916. Waterworks Building, of which of 1826 Model T cars, and a voy in print, got felt by all who record is being added to by 220 it reminds one.

beautiful selection of Lincoln saw it. It consisted in a huge | miler dally,