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Show V TAGEFOUE, - THE EVENING HERALD, MONDAY, JUNE 23, 1925. V : T7 mm fv-- IN m -- r-- V "A i. 111 ill J mr- - 'l.'t: nm'N A . IIP f'MT Modern Demand for Increased Speed and Greater Safety Calls for Steel Construction. Auto-mobi-le Industry Heeds Trend of Progress. tio x r - l. . I.tt if w hi i i a case long pending betweenljciviliza " wood. Probably no other material baa figured B0 V- - V&ttJMM. prominently in the progress of man. I lis first weapon was wood : the club. The flint axe head only made the axe more enective, as did iron and bronzy later Oh. His first home Was a bower of THERE t lb T is Wl3rItV . o I b cr rr . JJy -- tonritiy vf HttS York WarUL 3 T i t t V ii St'w r c A- I hi ill i "51 b N?V 1 ,1 ) V AX. . t l 1 : JJ" I t)vras wt CO. BpVmtirtd railway wAodti coach (atom). Charrtd tmtomobU body tu ,f of the' tenter4 line of .he vehicle should be aimed at" iteuliihig tliat many .housnnds more niey be npedlewly killed in autoniobUe accMcuU, ii is lj. tlmk. Uncle nam may eventually: undertake to regulate aulouioWes. A prominent has recently predicted that in the future laws v.ill require nuinuiacturers to build .automobiles with sled bod.es Just .u met.', r.rc ' ru.hjuy reijuiriiig cars. ; f 1 Vfr. Lf nmuu-fuctur- er bll-cte- cl ..': Btditt All-Sit- el a" X W t t traiul. V .Ci. fr -- L 1 his first boat a rait Mm climbed up from savagery on wooden ladder. Progress ha a placed a great strath on Mm ladder. The rungs1 began to ereak danger" eusly , even back in the ages of bronxe and Iran. Ai Hfeand ita growing requirementi became more and more strenuous, steel became - tnoM and more necesiarr until I vretkt i i.r4 StTiM ' toughs, loll Ao live ... ' Tlie Literary Digest recenily quoted a contributor to a New York newspaper w!to signed himself "Automotive Engineer." lie wrote of the increasing danger of uoo-leautomobile todies, particularly since the decided advent of. the closed car. It ii this type of woo:hn frame body, he declared, that presents the dangerous blind spots to driver and other tccupants, with .their resulting dangers.- "Tlie pillars on eltlier side of the windshield of a ctosed car' have to be strong and substantial," lie wrote., ''Many makers have been able to accomplish this result by the use of steel pillars- of strong but slender section, i'tfe result is that ' the yislon of the driver is not cut down materially on the front, left " or right quarter view. ; f lie . bodyj the '.vriter iluld, "has done much to slmw what :an - Kesdiuie. in tlie wav. of unob-- structed cleur vision.- - Some of tlie ears front pillars on the , ere remarkably slender and yet they are trohg enough to maintain the. and rigidity of tlie proper strength tli ordinary ody tliere is a wood piece -- surrounded ity steel sheatlilng. It is a growing tendency on the part of body makers to eliminate .more and ,more wood . ' from the" body, so that while the ' ,type body Inay' not b(S an It may have pillars and . it L t n c 0 5 b forced" out t Wood I march of progress i by- m IMS steel in the - en Trame body covered with a metal shell. cont Safety s an sideration in modern construction. Safety tails for strength. Strength, requires power to protect lives in" case of accident and' to resist firs , - today civilisation la mounting by a ladder, of resilient gteel to lieigliU undreamed of a generation ago. Bpd Today' Watchword The usefulness of steel has grown lb a direct ratio with the increasing speed of modem life, particularly during the last quarter of the can still recall the day when the wooden buggy with ita high, frail Wheels twentieta-century.-M- any was, goooenoUrorourldihf. TherBHffalo BUI"" wooden railway as a quaint antique, was plenty good enough when thirty miles an hour was our idea of real speed."'- - " " But wooden coaclies splintered 111 wrecks, and the cost In hu'itan life and suffering became li to!erdie. eoacn, which we now regard today coaches give confidence to everyone wbo travels at 00 t TO, miles an hour. . . ' - lias steel ocean liner and freighter r(f killed and scores injured when a train of wooden coaches plunged into the rear of a train of steel cars. One newspaper, in an editorial on the wreck saids "When trains collide, even at moderate speed, Safety demands that they be constructed of something more substantial than match wood. The type of cars that figured in yesterday's collision is similar to that- - in wldch 97 .persons were crushed to death ! Brooklyn. All such cars should have been retired long ago." between 190T, and 1923 the toll pf deaths by railroad accidents was cut nearly in half. In 1907 more than 11,800 persons were killed io such accidents. In 1933 the total was 6,932. Nearly 6,000 lives saved through the protection of r aV! f - el - r ?hir el . all-ste- el el jmd Spted Imply Stl maximum The, ' need' of ' the strength with the minimum weight has made steel indispensable to the automobile. It needed only the development of the steel disc wlircl to complete, the conquest of the automotive industry. Manufacturers. are taking a hint from the experience of the railroads and are building for safety .by the substitution bodies for composite of wood construction, which is a wood el tvrrWJ el mi-;- - ". ' - are other striking examples of how wood has been furced to give way to steel. In these modern sJtiips art engines working at such speed that their vibration- alone would wreck any hull of wood. The latest automobile development is bodies," built on the saiety principle f railway 'cars. Safety1 In this age is directly ' dependent upon the strength of steel. Baftty EJ after the accident has happened. ' lies only in steel. ' Railway construction Bow emphanSsises the fact that it is the mineral,' not the Vegetable, kingdom that will 'govent,' ouj- future progress. , The wooden Coaches and box cars Still riding over steel rails are hang overs of ''m past generation. Theeoneeiltrated activity and the body freveultJ ttri.ta injury to occupant. speed of modern life make it impos to sible for wood to stand up under metrists recently circulated The report says i "Practically all the strain. The photographs ibuilt so that the throughput the country, the 'A.A.A. , vehicles have heel ' advises: "Learn that although driver has a satisfactory" view duccd iberc rive atrikinsf testimony C&T ai1u an in thm ritrnnnrntlr out closed see better la your nf through an are of about 70 degrees, car than you could through fain or approximately 83 degrees un each dther-partsteel and wood. One picture is that v "The" of awreck of two curtains, the few . obstructions to side of. the Center 'line of hi, vision. pillars are naturalEvolution of th Auto Body trains, ant visjon, such as the body posts, are FurtU'tmore, the angle has . been ly more slender yet. frothing Is only nine persons were lnjare4 and . - af rmintst vma r tint amicfnthAil sacrificed in tlie way of strength.' 'wider' to the left on much none killed. " the! bodies of rVMany automobile 0- vehicles and to the' rif'Tit What appears to be an. . " Contrasted with this Is the wreck nnonl and nrarlv all iW nt tl is a wooden body eh:des. UnforETel Uncle Sam has taken on of wooden" coaches in which 87jer- - , body de- the a frequently been from derived t ' eovered dewith metal sheathing. losnheir lives and scores were past Lm tor wooden bufnries and ognition of the fact that more closed tunately, an angle of about 43 Numerous lests have proved that seriously Injured. Many times have coaches. Even the names Sedan, Car mean increasing dangers to grees is the angle at which a vehidoes not withstand the . the wooden, cle approaching at right angles is this type cars, burning like Cabriolet,. Landaulet remain. But, l drivers and 'pedestrians, effect of collision or other acc'y tinder, added to the horror of a as the NewYork Tim said re- - ' Herbert Hoover, Secretary of usually first seen. train wreck. Steel does not burn: degree. In fThere are many cars operating dents to an pronounced hv,. nc.ni trnA nt fti1" rnmmow wmttv aeti Ur. which-visineither doer it break nor splinter. Industry Is toward an body, at this poiht, this"type of wooden-mottoday-i- n bodv, man of the' Conference visinriis obstructed almost us much The other pictures illustrate the the motor ear's own on one side or the otlicr. Jscam- and 'designed body, In tlie as it Is ; . autobody. greater , safety - in shut off by heayy door on the motor vehicle, which he for a swift pace and severe strains. mobile bodies compared with those The trulr modem man has vitxyi Etriick another blow ; at Jars,, windshield frames or side of The popularity his lift. Into a web of slci!. lJTsy where wood predominated. ' In Its report. Jt pointed out talnsiThe driver always becomes the closed car has caused the Airier--' his hott-o Ixs auto- '" lean Autoniobile Association to con- that In 132i the "last year for partially unconsciyus of this blind apartment, train on. he rides, which the mobile, the and increas-iftutoA Woodtn CoochHorror which figures were available cern itself with the wtpldly J surprised by ap spot Uie elevaqr that lifts him, tlie Cab.. dancrrs caused by drivlnir this Ihoblle necldentf caused 21,000 pearance oi a penestnan or veni- - -and his As late as 'January 18th last, in type of car. Stmctural "blind spots'" deaths. .TlieJefwe'd' were not In-- cle so close ilurt an accident cannot inet thajf protect his papers, ' v ' ; a wreck on the Williamsburg Bridge caused by wide, wooden, bod v" posts, eluded butAo Id have bronelit the be avoided. -- A field of view of at" furniture are ell of stceL ' to Wood 90 another euca on side in New York, five persons were are responsible, v Isx a Statement figures wfl uiove the miUioa mark. least 180 degrees or belongs age. This power Sphnttrti wttitu lutomobUt btiy. " II All-ste- . i - k5 all-ste- el you-can- el . el all-ste- ... ' el rec-so- ns 1 i . al on el el cur-wo- nr . S WMmM tf rXli aa-aff- l llla L:.f-f- i -- wV -- - |