Show Spare Share Tires Outside Maybe Some Sore Day Well We'll Have Crank for far Engine By Frederick C. C Othman WASHINGTON Henry J. J Kaiser the thc motorcar maker is ismy ismy ismy my boyHe's boy boy- Hes He's seeing the lightOn light On his 1952 models the spare tires are going to be C. C ibo I Ib bo b boated 0 ted t e d on 1 s shame shamelessly ham e lessly tP Jt outside in full Cull fullview y 0 p i iview view of every every- J rM VJ body For the last J 18 years you motorists will r recall e call the Mr 11 Othman I fifth wheel of an automobile has been hidden under the rear deck as if the manufacturers refused to believe their products products prod prod- ever got flat wheels Either that or they regarded the spare as something disgraceful disgraceful disgraceful dis dis- dis- dis graceful and immodest This resulted in spare tires taking up room that rightfully belonged to suitcases So most of the auto makers merely made their rear decks longer The overhang on some cars now is so long that they cant can't possibly possibly possibly bly make a short turn without knocking over a telephone post There even has been organized a national society for the building building building build build- ing of four-door four sedans with shorter fannies That title is official official official of of- I dont don't make it up Kaiser is advertising his al fresco spares as a new continental continental continental conti conti- touch in automobile ing That's fair enough though I fail to see sec anything new about it Fact is is so many motorists found themselves so much of oC the time with their spares flat on account of nobody ever thinking of them until too late that a number of manufacturers manufacturers manufacturers have been doing a big business in apparatus to bolt tires on the back of existing cars These arrangements of nuts bolts and brackets have been selling for around 50 50 each They've been advertised as a style touch to g give ge e any motorcar some resemblance to the late lamented Lincoln Continental Continental Continental Con Con- last model of which rolled off the production lines in 1948 Now Kaisers Kaiser's producing outdoor outdoor outdoor out out- door spares at no no extra charge and lets let's forget the streamlining ing Im I'm even hopeful now that hes he's gone this far of future sedans equipped with running boards And even Oen cranks for cold mornings when the battery's battery's bat bat- tery's 1 en ene e Eliminate Copper A car today with an automatic automatic automatic auto auto- matic transmission a and n 11 d no crank is a pain when the starters starter's dead Push it and nothing nothing nothing noth noth- ing much happens Our masters here in Washington incidentally incidental incidental- ly are doing something about that without even realizing it They've slapped such drastic controls on use of copper in automobiles that all hands including including including in in- Kaiser are arc doing everything everything every every- thing possible to eliminate it Well Vell sir these automatic transmissions contain a lot of brass which is mostly copper The word ord is that shifting self-shifting automobiles will b be become e c Q o m me e scarcer and scarcer The other part of an automobile automo- automo automobile automobile automo automo- bile that uses lots of copper copper is is the radiator The industry tried aluminum r radiators a d i a t tor o r s experimentally experimentally experimentally mentally but they didn't work workout workout workout out so well One of the biggest outfits sold a number of automobiles automobiles auto auto- automobiles mobiles last fall with galvanized galvanized galvan galvan- iron radiators These immediately immediately immediately im im- im- im mediately began to rust This clogged the water water- waterlines lines and in several cases the engines got gotso so hot their bearings melted The firm had to call in each machine machine machine ma ma- chine and replace its radiator with the old-fashioned old kind But Its It's Costly The engineers now are arc working working work work- ing on stainless steel radiators This is expensive as all get out but there is no particular shortage shortage shortage short short- age of the shiny metal and it seems to work fine Otherwise the auto industry is going great guns with such things as automatic brakes on Packards and automatic steering steering steer steer- ing gears on Chryslers You have to hold the wheel on U. U latter and touch the pedal on the former but hydraulic power does the work These things are all to the good Someday I 1 bet somebody's somebody's some some- body's hodys even going to invent I petcocks so a fellow can prime an engine that wont won't start I |