Show BODY BODYBUILDING BUILDING TOLD Skeleton ton of Motor Car Oar and andRing's andring's Rings Ring's Coach Much Alike I I Motor body construction which to toi i the eye eyo hoe bu ha chang changed d enormously In ina Ina a a decade In reality has 1188 changed but I butI mUG little In tn several ernt hundred years as ns fir ea as the principles B of body framing and bracing are concerned Methods o of manufacture of ot course have hate vastly Improved and thoroughly modernized In America at lust least to meet the de do de mand mands of ot large scale BOIlle production ap- ap appearance ap appearance has been so 80 altered that beauty durability and utility tor for all types ot of ser sen Ices are well combined but the tho raw frame framo of ot a a motor car bOdy built today and the skeleton ot of ofa ofa II a kings king's coach of the tho middle ages alS Would easily pass pus for tor blood kin In vir- vir vir virtually all details of ot construction This is 18 the statement of ot InV In W V Goodwin consulting engine engineer ot of ot l a Mac well Mai-well well ell Motor corporations corporation's J ody divi dwa return d two months h In Europe during duing which time ho he visited the tha Paris and London au- au automobile au automobile shows and the factories ot of leading motor car manufacturers and coach builders In England France and Belgium He also alo visited the mu- mu museums mu museums Bourns which hold the finest examples ot of coach Work Bork ork In the palace ot of kings In Versailles es Goodwin made a close Inspection ot or a appointed gorgeously appointed vehicle used In inthe Inthe the tho coronation ceremonies of ot French kings in the middle ages and again brought to use by Napoleon upon the occasion of his marriage to Josephine T sold fa carriage is ts ornamented with Ith gold Hand carved figures adorn th the top The harness is or of told fold Genuine tapestry Is used throughout tor for upholstery Paintings are on the side hide panels done by the leading artists of ot the day Yet the frame work ot of this regal affair built centuries ago Is no different than is 19 isto lato to be found In a high grade motor car bOdy ot of approved construction Goodwin states that European builders are not in position to a 1111 themselves of ot the advantages ad of ot larg largo scale production In body building They have bate neither the equipment no noo the manufacturing system They built tOday In about the same specially designed jobs job are manufactured manufactured here here-a here a slow costly system that has hae been made complete in this coun coun- country country country try by modern machinery and methods meth meth- methods methods The present demand tor for cars of the closed type typo In France has not ad- ad advanced ad advanced In n the same proportion that It has In the United States he goes u a I e Open cars care or closed cars of ot the cot cot- collapsible col collapsible type are the most popular The English closed-car closed demand is ln- ln Increasing In Increasing creasing but principally for tor cars of the type In no countr country Goodwin claims are motorists so EO exacting In their de- de demands de demands mands tor for quiet operation as here H relates the story of ot a trip with an English motorist who was driving a 8 large expensive car ear of ot foreign make That car was unusually noisy said Good ln The axle was ling hov-ling and the motor gears gave forth that came and went In crescendos that depended upon the speed of ot the car carI I called the owners owner's attention to th the tact fact that his car seemed to be more than its share of ot noise noise-makin noise I suggested a u little oil Ho lie was angry Ito He felt that ho he needed to express his feelings and did It It with I 1 wouldn't gh give e a snap for one of ot these tool fool Yan Tan Yankee Yank kee kte k e cars that you can caw ca n nl t tell hen ahen the motors motor's running Perhaps he was as as sincere In his statement and perhaps perhaps per perhaps haps that Is why European makes arc not particularly quiet But the fact that Americans demand quiet opera opera- operation operation operation tion has resulted in their getting it We Wo can undoubtedly learn from tit tit-I Eu- Eu Europe rope En rO rope e and It Is b just as ae a true that EUrope Eu- Eu Europe Eu Europe rope can cnn learn from us go 00 |