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Show " ' s- - " THE DESERET NEWS ' ubta Design cf Filotcr Csr t Has Been Highly Developed ' Advancement Made Along Lines of Comfort and Con venience Would Amaze Citizen of Generation Ago Were He to be Awakened from Rip Van Winkle i Slumber . ' ' - are prone to accept progress as a matter of fact. A man creates new comforts, new conveniences, new utllltlea; they become part of our everyday life and we regard them without surprise or wonder. ammd wmehT Tot, esj f 7 r SECTION. WB ' V i . our Btnnihment if we were to awaken today after a Rip Van Winkle experienced. .i,mber uch Picture your to a11 ?uU or the first time upon a machine a Pce of more thanTSO mile an hour. thU '5 the alr at dar dumbfounded. Yet when read a few weeks ago of the f airplane racing records youyou accorded it only passing inter- - SATURDAY FEBRUARY 18 1922 - Genuine 'I " Replacement Parts Master of All Road Conditions Vacuum Cup Cord Tires I are the users' protection both as to price and quality, ' , We are authorized Distributors for GENUINE Repair Parte for Continental 'Red Seal Motors ' Borg & Beck ' Clutches. Yqu would be equally amazed you- -' were to see for the first time a ifmodWe carry a complete stock the only protection was an ineffectual em inclosed car. - Tet you have tie- - windshield or an awkward buggy at all times. Tell your dealcome so accustomed to them that you top! And then picture the comfort er or repair man where he give them only a fleeting look at ad- they enjoy today! miration. can get them. Yes, if we place these pictures side But think back a few side the change is a remarkable It Is by not difficult to recall theyears one and indefcd, yet the progress has when the automobile was a fairdays weather been, so steady that we are apt to vehicle. Only a hardy adventurer forget the tremendous advances that would "motor" In rainy weather. Win- have been made. The automobile body designer ter driving was unheard of In those of daya Even In fair weather, motorists id years ago had little to guide him. suffered discomfort if a brisk wind He waa groping He was contending was howling, for there were no wind- with a new problem. Horse-draw- n shields to protect One. Tops were a carriage construction furnished his precedent and it was worse than rarity. And Inclosed cars were crude only none. Here was a new vehicle which and ungainly experiments. J attained a speed of 20. 10 or even 49 Most of us remember the auan hour, and the question of tomobile endurance contests early and the j miles to the elements became Glldden tours. The cars which par- exposure to gain satisfactory 36 South West Temple ticipated In those events represented vital- Attempts protection from. rain. snow, wind and the. latest word in American r motor cold " SallLake. encountered engineering difficar and design, yet the contestants were subjected to every conceivable culties At were affixed first to buggy tops discomfort. Exposed, to mud, the light automobile bodies, but visleet and wind, the drivers wererain, exbration and strains proved too much more pleasing. Conveniences are at hausted after a day's travel. Better methods of bracing, every .hand. The windows mav bs The New York to Pittsburg eight-da- y for them. bows or closed more noiselessand and durable top opened stronger easily run for 1903 still is a vivid models a dic- material eliminated these troubles, ly. In chauffeur-drive- n to me. The .description of the picture finish but the tops still remained aw j taphone communicates orders There kwrard of that contest by a prominent writer in appearance. Windshields were vanity cases to please the gentler of that time serves to emphasize the but vised, rattled loose from the sex, and electric, cigar lighters and hardship endured by a the tourist less bodies and they The i had to be braced by long ash trays serve the smoker than two decades ago. brass rods which offended the eye. j doors, windows and windshield kre I after day start the of ths "Eighty Then came attempts to construct weather-tighInconspicuous vnti-- ! run," hs sas, "on the morning of closed cars. They were only partially lators keep the Interior freshJHetter Thursday. Oct. 15, beyond High successful. Windows iiaiir$a.n rid- -t rattled- - .doora.spring-juspensloa.yleld- s throng orj and joints squeaked, rain and wind Ing comfort. Confusing night time Ef?? 'Smoky beat in through crevices, vision was reflections have- been eliminated by con?OUrf on RMge avenue obstructed bothersome setting the windshield at an angle and at waited athfd the, fog and drizzle. reflections annoyed night windows driver. And and bv shading the rear the The whistles were blown 12 minutes the artistic standpoint thesa with s roller curtains. before noon when a muffled noise from designs I have not touched here on the mewere, to say the least, early like the vibration of a chanical advances which have made beaten far away sounded faintly. It ludicrous. Year by year, however, designers motoring more pleasurable, it is sugrew to a raucous honk-bon- k made closed cars fnore practical, more perfluous to say that the engineer has back somewhere in the Impenetrable beautiful. y we find In them kept pace with the body craftsmen. fog. The crowd answered with a Never before have manufacturers ' shout and tooting of horns- - As they what surely must be a close approxi- offered cars of the refinement, con-- shouted;-e- ut of the fog came a car. mation la perfection. the utility of those which venience, Rattles and Squeaks. ghostlike in its mud streakings and . are produced today The moda fog enshrouding. It can hardly be said that the own- ern being the man of motor car has The occupants were clad in leath- er of the earliest types expressed pride moderate means angiven enjoyable, eco-- , er and rubber with their heads hidtheir appearance. It was their nomlcal and useful form of trans-- 1 den in helmets and goggles, They utility which appealed. But It cannot portation which no king of earlier j sat huddled down and holding fast. be denied that the owner of the pres- times could buy What a contrast is the motor jour- ent day sedan or coupe admires and Truly an astounding development ney of the present time under simi- finds an enjoyable pride In its exMr. Charles Clifton. lar conditions! We may drive for terior snd interior beauty. Unbalanced proportions, broken hours through a pelting rain or through a driving blizzard Or through tinea garish curves and panels, crude 2 00, 000 Autos on Farms. raw, chill winds and step from the details, have given way to graceful of our Closed car, warm proportions and silnple beauty. In the According to stattstics compiled by and comfortable. 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