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Novelties at Europe's sho ws. Centro shows the low Aston-Martin. Above it, and lower left, are sketches of a Jarvis with special rear deck. Upper left shows sunken floors in a

Vulcan. Low er right is sketch of convertible observation body.

In the recent motor shows in The Vulcan also has sunken floor Europe were to be seen many In-boards in the rear, and has a body novations that startled 'the com- that spreads well over the rear fen- placent motorists

that luggage may be inserted when the rear of the sent is lifted, Still another has an adjustable seat for ders to give more room inside., the driver's comfort, and several The rear running board of this show adjustable steering columna car is inside the door because of to at the reach of the driver.

" The body in its widened body. back turns downward in a graceful curve, with the rear window prae- tieally part of the top.

These "freaks" appeared at the recent automobilo salons in Paris and London in a confusing variety of bodies, in peculiar shapes and in novel improvements. That the range of these innovations is great may be realized from the fact that¦

Even mora freakish is the Lancia there are 812 different types of au- "Airway" sedan, or "saloon" as tomobiles on the British market this type of body is called in Eng alone, as compared with less then land. The top descends boldly from 109 in the United States.

the front until it strikes the rear Competition, therefore, is much on a line with the hood. But com- keener in England and Europe, ing out in back like a dormer win- with the result that manu-dow is the oval glass for rear vision, facturers 090 their ingenuity with another opening at the top of

the development of the dormer appointments or improvementa peculiar Lo their own pro ducts. However frankish these may be, every one of them has some appeal to comfort, or to facility in "driving, or some other practical advantage.'

toward

An "Observation Car,”

In front, the "Airway" has spotlight mounted on the roof, while inside a compass and an air speed indicator justify its name.

There are many other "freaks"

Front-Drive Appears.

Technically, the trans-Atlantic improvements are almost as revo- lutionary as the bodies. The front drive car has appeared on the street for the first time in the form of the "Tracta." The free-wheel drive, permitting simpler shifting of speeds, is an innovation on another

car.

The Herris-Leon Laigno 'charsis provides independent springing and steering for each front wheel. | Headlights that dip and turn at the control af the driver appear on other automobiles.

Many other show features fuclude new places for the tools, use of the rear of the front seat as a com- partment for a folding table, fold-

and ing seats

other equip- ment

forma of bolts

new

The Peugeot comes forth with an extension of the radiator below, to provide for oil cooling, while an other, the Bentley, extends the an There is the extremely low in bodies, all with some practicalire water cooling radiator well be- bodied Aston-Martin, for instance, excuse. There are bodies with slidlow the crankshaft. over the top of which a child maying or folding tops,, to permit the That's the freak in it. But sunlight and air to get in. punk. the car is said to be as comfortable Young & Co. have built one body as any larger automobile, because with a wide door behind and the the floor boards are sunk below the rear of the back seat convertible, driving shaft, to make ample leg so that passengers may look back-

ward upon the passing scenery and shackles for the springs, room for the passengers.

Side doors, however, permit passen-

piping out- gers to enter in the conventional flexible exhaust manner when the back seat is used side the hood, now ways of engine merely for conveyance.

suspension and other significant A Jarvis four-seater body on a though small improvements.

Yet with all these advantage- Darracq chassis provides a deck or dangling through a jagged openable in front of the rear passen-ments, most of the cars stick to the rers, which encloses them almost four speeds of older days. Due to entirely within their compartment, the Increased importation .of Separate windshields keep the wind American and continental cars in from their faces.

England, however, there has been Another body provides a com- quite an increase in use of three- partment behind the rear seat; so speed gears.

Not for Rough Roads. This kind of car, of course, muat close only the smoothly paved roads and avoid ruts, or the occu- pants might

their legs

find

jing.

Among other cars of this type there are the Vulcan and the Lan- ein, two high-priced, luxurious auto- mobiles. Both are much larger than the tiny Aston-Martin, but their bodies are the attractions.

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Efficient Method of Enamelling.

STOP GAP.

Old Cars Useful.

Great motors dead and filled]

with common clay,

May stop a gap to keep spring

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CAR SPEED-THE LIMIT.

. Bogus Policemen.

Turin, Dec. 10. Two idle young scoundrela noticed that a Turin manufacturer, A new use has been found for motoring in, the country, was con-

dis-travening the speed regulations.

DISTINCTIVE FINISH."decrepit, distintegrating,

By Captain E. de Normanville in the Daily Chronicle.

While the ear which is produced in largo quantities is naturally more in the public eye than the loss large. ly produced car, the latter need by

carded automobiles" in the little town of Yreka (U.S.A.).

During the winter the creek through the town frequently run a banker and ruins the furniture in nearby houses,

To prevent this, the civil fathers

no means be buckward in the menu will use old cars, filled with rocks, facturing processes employed for ite

as an extra bank on the side of evolution.

Silt will do the

This point was, vividly brought the channel..

rest.

home recently to a party of motor. ing journalists and experts who vi sited the Humber works in Coventry for a tour of inspection.

These famous British works have been greatly enlarged and have been steadily modernised as improved methode became available.

now

Better Enamelling.

make the enumel pool off-28 is normally the enso.

They pretended to be police of- ficera in civilian clothing, examined the motorist's papers, and took toll from him; 60 lire

As the police in this country are accustomed to inflict fines on erring motorists, and to collect the money on the spot, the manu- facturer thought all was in order.

Later, in his home, he was visit ed by two other men, who gave themselves out to be superior polico oillcers, sent to revise the fine..

Those supervisors examined the city man's papers; and took 300 lire The wings are then dipped in the from him,This again seemed solution and hung on a chain con-perfectly in order. veyor, which very slowly elevates Two days later, a young man them into a long black cavern above called at the manufacturer's office, -the drying stove..

with a letter demanding, 500 lire,

This stove is coft. long and heated under pain of informing the police One of the most interesting of the to 435deg. Fahrenheit by oil-fired of the signor's Infringements of

plants is that designed for boilera, in which the air is boiled the motoring lawa.

That was too much. Some of the enamelling-a comparatively minor instead of water. The parts being detail in car construction which is enamelled pass through the stove a manufacturer's workmen were call- given very thorough attention in the the speed of 01 m.p.h.-or lin. pered up, and this fifth bogus police- Humber works, the main objects be five seconda

man was marched off to the police

His accomplices were

traced

and

ing better and more lasting finish, When they emerge the parts no station.

We will follow as an example, a treated have a remarkably smoothi wing, which, of course, is first of and lustrous appearance, but they arrested. all correctly shaped in the nude still pass through other perfecting | steel. It is then taken to the eas-processes before being finally passed: An unique car-body design was melling room and boiled for an hour This new plant indicates that de-seen in Singapore streets over the in huge cauldrons filled with an anti-gree of thoroughness and distinctive week-end. This took the form of Fast solution.

anish which has for so long boon as a body painted in the colours of a This cualetising procces leaves a Bociated with Humber products. A tiger-orange with black stripes- rust-proof deposit on the wings, so part so treated will look now (if not and the radiator front took the that if in later life they get a soratchi nccidentally damaged), oven after it form of a tiger's head, with... Its or chip, the damp cannot get in and has seen 20,000 miles road services, mouth opened in a snarling manner,

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