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Show I NEW NUMBERING MAY PREVENT THIEVERY 1 I Because the automobile thief first changes the engine number to destroy the identity of tho car, the Society of Automotive Engineers have recommended recom-mended that the engine identification number be placed ne.ir the top of the right-hand side of the 1 rankcaae proper, prop-er, in a position in which It can bo read ea-sily Tho numbers would be between two vortical ribs or beads one-o,uarter Inch wide, one-eighth of an inch high, three Inches long and throe Inches apart, the surface of the casting between the ribs to be left rough a cast and unpainted even on the finished oar. |