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Show Streamlining Furnishes Strength Without Weight Everything is being "streamlined' nowadays, and the automobile was one of the leaders several years ago, yet in the case of the car "strcngthlined" would be the more appropriate term. The smooth lines of the automobile automo-bile are nice to look at, and carry an easy suggestion of frictionless motion, yet in actual fact, the chief purpose of the gentle curves is to furnish strength without weight. The motive is exactly the same as that behind the stupendous swooping swoop-ing lines of the great steel bridges et Brooklyn, New York and San Francisco bay, California. Smoothing the exterior of the auto mobile has little perceptible e'lect on air resistance until very high speeds are attained, and several changes would be made In today's car designs if reduction of wind resistance re-sistance were the primary engineering engineer-ing objective. On the other hand it would take hundreds of pounds of added reinforcement re-inforcement to make a square-built vehicle as strong and rattleproof as the modern car. Keeping the weight down makes the car more efficient and economical at all speeds. |