Salt Lake Tribune | 1917-09-16 | Page 13 | Muffler Cut-Outs Banned by Chamber

mm cut-outs mm oy chamber Resolve to Refrain From Attaching Same to Their 1918 Output. As the use of muffler cut-outs Is becoming becom-ing a nuisance, the members of the National Na-tional Automobile Chamber' of Commerce have voted unanimously for their elimination elimina-tion on the cars they build in future, so far as they can be operated from the driver's seat. With more than four million cars In use and supplying a great service in the transportation trans-portation of the Individual and of materials, ma-terials, the use of inufller cut-outs is unfair un-fair to the public and adds an unnecessary unneces-sary noise to American life. Cars have ample power so that the silglit increase in speed which may come from the use of cut-outs is of no importance. There may be times in adjusting motors where a cutout cut-out Is useful, but In such cases it can be operated from under the car. Almost half of the 1 P" makers in the chamber do not fit muffler cut-outs to their present cars, an 1 al! makers voted that they should be eliminated In the new products. The directors, at their meeting in New York recently, adopted the following fol-lowing resolution: Whereas, Members of the National Automobile Chamber of Commerce u re-opposed re-opposed to the attachment of muftler cut-outR to motor vehicles and do not fit them to the cars and trucks they manufacture, or will discontinue doing do-ing so on their product for 3 1 S ; and Whereas, The use of the cut-out is unnecessary, annoying and dangerous to other users of the highways and objectionable tf residents along thern; Resolved, That the board of directors di-rectors recommends that all members of the National Automobile Chamber of Commerce refrain from attaching muffler cut-outs to their cars for the season of 118 and thereafter, and that no cars be sold by them after January 1, lflS, with cut-outs at-lached, at-lached, or that where cut-outs are attached they he made inoperative from the driver's seat.