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Show STEa AGAINST 100 ID WIRE Pressed steel wheels will supersede) wood and wire wheels in Europe be i fere vorj long, In the opinion of Ben ( famin Briscoe, of BliscQC and Stahl, , Detroit, designers of and purchasers ; for cars to be manufactured in France from materials secured in America,! an i in pan from material of French manufacture. Mr. Btiscoe recently returned re-turned from the Paris automobile show. His reports to Rodolphe Stall!, Ibis partner, lead Mr Siahl to make the ) j prediction thai pressed steel wheels ' would ultimately seen on American 'cars as generally as are wire wheels land woo. i wheels 'today. "I can see it coming," aid Mr. Stahl 'In the old days we felt that wood wheels were the only thing because all makers used them. Then came the wire wheel and I at ihe outset (here were many who predicted that they would not be popu liar, But they are. Now comes the ' pressed steel wheel, and Mr. Briscoe 'says ihat makers abroad manufacture them there at a lower figure than ia 1 possible in America. Pressed steel I wheels will be general!) used abroad within a year and will grow in popu larity in America as the days go by. ! Wood is growing scarcer and scarcer 1 toi wheel makingr. Wire whpels ac-1 , cumulate dirr and are hard lo keep looking neat. Pressed steel wheels fill the bill They look strange today j as dil wire wheels when they first I I became popular after a long lapse.' 1 There was really as much need to use , wood wheel 8 as existed in ihe days of i the bicycle and the wood wheels or i bicycles create! as much amusement, !as any thing that was seen jn the days of the bicycle, one manufacturer specializing spe-cializing in ihat class-of a cycle. |