| Show NEW TIRE IS PREDICTED Says They Will Be of Doughnut Type In Future Doughnut automobile lle tires eliminating the th wheel i four tour four brakes es and ind smaller smILlie motors win will mke make up the car CIU of ottto Ina 0 care ear according to the prediction n of ot CApt D n V Rick Rick- RIck ker famous u II an exponent r of advanced engineering Ideas as on nn engineering authority us ns well a as director of Ies of ot his has haj an unusual viewpoint as aa to the he de- de demand de demands mand mands v of the public due duo to hl hla unusual opportunities to 0 see wh what Is developing In Europe as well as America Two years ago affo ho he forecast designs na which are rapIdly rapid becoming standard His Hta statements os as to what mn may be t expected In tho coiling comins- tn two 0 ears are aro Thera Thero Is no Closer student of tho the trend trent of design American like to 6 Infer that they the aro are not l by Faris styles said nC Yet th the Hie f fashions re lIy do still ori Inato In Paris Farts Paralleling It the Europeans no mat mat- matter matter matter ter how strongly rte tte 0 disagree do SIOW show the tho way nay In most engineer We W it of t course leadIn lead leadIn In standardized manufacture ot of automobile In q quantities Practically Individual car made In Europe Europa Is to original and In r reality an nn experiment experiment ment In this manner m they create an and In America this I 11 i not po o true Our tendency Is to fix on a 11 standard type typo and anil then make malte va Quantities of o them That's s how we Jh tho bueSO timer huer so must muc for his hl money Wo We are always reluctant to pioneer or lead the tho way U in han an attempt to educate educato the t public tl toa II a new development no matter how logical It may seem Beem American buyers buers are skeptical of new things thinea Improved road conditions In the United States now approximate the delightful European Europe road condi condi- conditions conditions condi- condi conditions As a result we wo have come cometo cometo to vac use US a n flat Oat spring Instead of ot the radical cambre formerly necessary Another nother development wo VI we are re soon to see sea as a a result of this is the Doughnut tire which soon mill III b be ready for the market It Is call called oJ Doughnut because It has bas the th ap- ap appearance ap of o the tho old fashioned old small cruller email hole holo well wel well well-i 1 J 1 I putty puffy I circumference It rides a car ar on 20 pounds ponds of air pressure per square Inch Instead of 80 and absorbs bumps bump and jolts oter OHr a l two four of lumber lumbers s unnoticeable with the pew tire It Is 10 elastic It absorbs the tm- tm m ct althin Itself The new tire III practically eliminate th thi i r heel The large larye tiro be pl placed eed PU the hub and brake rim which will pro probably n lY bo be integral Stcl wheels If It the remnant teat t at lit III IIII I remain can be called a wheel wheel- wheel of the tYPe t pe which wll wit come como wits wit's wll the new tire tiro will be universally used I say ay this tJ type e of tire tiro will wm come if experiments now being made c prole proe all tho the claims made for tor It by some tire experts V type motors will soon slon be ba ob-I ob ob- ob obsolete ob obsolete solete according to who ho contends that the standard l power plants i pill be of four tour six or eight cylinders all In line With one or cc two conspicuous exception 1 the he engineers ers of continental Europe ha hue hate always frowned on I the thc V typo motor This TIlls Is remark remark- remarkable remarkable remarkable able when It Is le realized that the Item of or cost Is of no consideration iii European manufacture Their nim Is 3 for balance efficiency and at any price wheel brakes braes will be de- de demanded de demanded b by American buyers rs cs the they nero v sero ero Insisted upon by the Europeans Another development All closed cars carrying carr cam ing ing- ingmore more moro than four passengers will hay have four doors Tho The t two door door o-door type t pe po has al- al leidy al-leidy I dy c run Its Ita course Even Its c cheapness did not justify It nos nOI compensate tor for Its Inconvenience The Increased cost of gasoline and the tho danger of ot a steady increase In- In InC In Increase C crease through wasteful consumption consumption tion undoubtedly will bring brine about ta tac laws taws which will result In a demand for smaller and more more e- e motors Small errs cira of to today day I y with big cylinders and low e ef- ef efficiency ef efficiency unnecessarily waste naste fuel tae must go |
