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Show GERMAN INVENTOR WOULD RELIEVE AUTO JOLTS WASHINGTON. Aug. fi. Automoblllsta undoubtedly will hall with delight the Invention In-vention of a former German Infantry officer, by the nso of which the running of an automobile "over a pavement curb would result In the occupants of the car feeling no Jolt. It Is asserted that cobblestones cob-blestones and uneven country roads may be negotiated In automobiles with as much freedom from discomfort as Is experienced ex-perienced by passengers on railroad trains. In roportlng tho Invention to the state department, Consul Talbot J. Talbot of Brunswick, Germany, sends tho following translation describing It: "The grcatost difficulty In automobile construction has been . the pneumatic hooping of the wheels. The tires arc a constant sourco of worry and, in case of explosion, of danger to tho owners of such vehicles. All substitutes, such as spring wheels or solid rubber hoops, have failed to supplant the pneumatic tire. The solid rubber hooping Is too dear, and besides be-sides doc3 not possess the requisite elasticity. elas-ticity. "A former German Infantry officer has apparently succeeded In solving the difficulty, diffi-culty, lie has shifted tho point of elasticity, elas-ticity, which formerly consisted of metal spring plates under tho body of the wagon, lo tho axles of the wheels by an ingenious angle lover system. The result Is astonishing. Tho Inventor uses ship's cable for hooping, but oven with wooden wheete lie can maintain a completely elastic course over cobblestones, country roads, etc., as tho wagon Jolts are no longer up and down, but move in a horizontal hori-zontal plane, forward and backward. He can cross the pavement curb without the occupants of tho automobllo feeling a Jolt, as the body of the wagon Is not raised, as formerly, but drawn under." |