Salt Lake Tribune | 1913-10-01 | Page 5 | Lecture on Autos Attracts Motorists

LECTURE ON AUTOS ATTRACTS MOTORISTS E. Phil Merrill Gives Interesting Talk at Shannan Auto Company. Quite a larjre crowd of motor enthusiasts enthusi-asts attended the afternoon and evening lectures at the Shamnan Automobile company yesterday. E Phil Merrill, head of the educational department of the Cadillac Motor Car company, pleased his audience With his talk on motor cars in general and the Cadillac, particularly. He Ifl a most interesting speaker, with a very pleading manner, and has a very striking way of comparing the mechanisms mechan-isms of an automobile with the organisms organ-isms of the human body. He likens the frame of a motor car to the skeleton of the body. The gasoline gaso-line tank represents the stomach, the gasoline the food The carburetor Is the lungs, for It breathes in the air which vitalizes the gasoline and makes it a life-giving fluid or mixture. The gasoline gaso-line engine is the heart of the car, for it develops the heat or Impulse which sends the llfo down through the car. He shows how the Joints work like the wrist and elbow, the knee or the hip Ligaments, muscles, nerves, oil membranes, mem-branes, are all there Jut as In tho human hu-man 6ystem. Altogether It Is a most Interesting In-teresting and Instructive leoture. These lectures will be continued this afternoon and this evening, and Mr Sharman has Issued an Invitation to the public in general to attend.