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Show K HYDRO MOTOR CAR 99 DESIGNED FOR LAND 99Kt' AND WATER iBr mWfc Testa which resulted very sntlsfnc- 99F torlty were recently 'conducted nt 99; San Francisco with an amphibious K motor car constructed by a local con- H? corn. At its debut It was driven oft H the beach Into the bay, where It nav. JmLm lgated nicely at a speed of about 10 K miles an hour for a tlmo and then Jf climbed ashoro without hesitation. B) Tho machlno Is a high rower roadster mm fitted with a boat sloped aluminum K hody and provided at tho stern with 99 n screw propeller and rudder. Tho 9E sears aro shifted to drive the marine M propulsion shaft and the rudder con- H trolled by the steorlng wheel when V the car slips Into tho water and Us jBH driving wheels lose their purchaso on V th0 earth. Tho car Bits well In tho B water and looks much like a blunt H nosed motor boat. This appearanco 99F Is only somewhat modified when It is B propelled over land. The machlno 9K travels easily along averago roads. 199' Tho car Is described and Illustrated B In the February Popular Mechanics 9B Magazine Il ' |