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Show DEMONSTRATION OF NEW CRASH ABSORBER r, : Capt. Franzcarl Schleiff, one-armed former ace of the German air foro, pointing out his invention, a crash absorber, after a demonstration. In on test he sped Into a pillar of the Riverside Drive viaduct, Twelfth avenue and One Hundred Thirty-fourth street, New York, at a speed of over thirty mllei an hour. The absorber consists of a 80-lnch bar of solid rubber attached to the chassis by steel claws or scissors, its lateral extension and recoil spending spend-ing the impact to right and left before It reaches the chassis. The absorber may then be restored to its proper shape. This was the first United States demonstration of the device which is being used In Europe. |