Show THE MAKING OF THE CAR The tendency of modern design is to conceal as great a number of the worlIng workIng work work- Ing log parts as is possible ana arts in m looking at many a motor the layman might see only one or two piece Iron casting having but very few visible moving pieces but if it he drives a car or is at all familiar with its construction he will w know that hidden In the Inner recesses of th the machine machine machine ma ma- chine are pistons for harnessing the e eXplosions ex explosions eX- eX connecting rods for tor transmitting transmitting transmitting transmit transmit- ting tho the power to the crank crankshaft shaft and valves for controlling the time admission and ejection of the gases ases Some of those tho parts such as pistons cylinder castings and the crank case are comparatively large larAe and it Is consequently vj w realize that there are approximately 1500 square pieces in a modern automobile motor motor motor mo mo- tor but this number Includes parts of the magneto and carburetor as these are vital members of the power plant Of course some of these 1500 distinct pieces are in duplicate such as valve stems bolts nuts and connecting rods but the lar large e majority must be fitted separately and each part requires individual atten atten- tion And not only does docs each piece need to he handled separately but some parts require several operations before they arc are made of proper shape size and quality quality ty to fill their places pianos in the time completed whole Harold Harold Whiting in Harpers Harper's lIar lIar- pers per's Weekly celly |