Show I RAPID STRIDES MADE BY AUTO I In speaking of oC the rapid strides made In the development dC of oC the automobile I In recent years ears Manager W. W II IL White of oC the Intel Mountain Inter lount in Motor Car company company company com com- pany local distributor I sketched d a n brief brier outline which is quite I Interesting He Ho said In 1910 the rapid strides of or the automobile au automobile automobile au- au even at that time convinced the manufacturer that the the automobile I had come to stay but one big difficulty cult culty that prevented It Cr from m becoming becoming- a continuous utility was was' that at Its I best the automobile at that time was wasa a seasonable commodity The late I spring and summer and earl early fall tali were the big buying buying- months but owing to I I j. j C. C W. W Carruthers n y t 1 1 i Y Ya a w II I I arh Co the fact tact that tho the public stopped buying cars when the weather made motoring Impossible dealers had to wait waft until the following spring before the they could again do business It Il was during the thc year the year ear of or 1913 that Kissel decided that some way must be he found whereby the automobile could be used the year ear round Tho The growth of the automobile Industry would be curtailed until such a condition WasI was I remedied To To the average erae layman la such a problem problem I l lem m seems er very simple In the light of later developments but at that time it must be remembered that there WasI was no precedent 1 Kissel with his assistants assistants assistants assis assis- I tants were pioneers starting at the tho vcr very beginning of oC a big Idea which they had to develop eop Inch by inch The They had no more than started when the they realized that some Innovation had to tobe tobe tobe be devised In tho the matter of the thc lower body so sp Q th that lt the the winter Ilter t top would oud fit securely otherwise it would a makeshift at best The They found Cound that thc they could not get et a good appearing car and one that was weather proof b by merel merely having having- the top overlap the lower bodIn body bod In the first filst first place this made the car look looker er very unattractive giving in I It Alums a clumsy lums appearance Also It was found Cound that a short period of or use would so strain such a Job that leaks drafts and rattle would soon oon develop It was then that the tho next Important I step was taken that of or constructing the thc Interior of or the lower bOd body that when the winter top was ad added lcd It would sot Into the lower bod Becoming practically a part of oC the carand car carand car carand and not a an an addition It was Wa then a question of or keeping everlastingly I at it of or the tho addition and elimination of ot bolts and ami fastenings fastening's until until un Un- til they ha had finished one model which In their estimation was as s perfect as us I the addition of or the two units would permit Hence the first mo model el of or tho the all- all I year car was born and during the New NewYork NewYork ew York and Chicago automobile shows sho inthe in inthe the tho winter of 1914 it appeared and its subsequent growth is now a matter of ot automobile history The Kissel Motor Car com company pan was the only exhibitor at the tube shows shows' that year car to display the two cars I Idea The next year ear twenty other manufacturers displayed d detachable le top m models del 9 I A comparison with tho the new 1018 1918 mo models concluded White offers a striking example of the tho progress Kissel Kissel Kissel Kis Kis- sel has made In developing Ile and perfecting perfecting per per- his Innovation The n new w model per per-I known as the thC p passenger five staggered door sedan and antI which is one of or tho features of or our display this wee week atthe at atthe I the tho a auto R ito show has the thu latest all year I top which is not on y entirely removable j able but In which all aH side wl windows maybe may maybe I be lowered or raised full tull length |