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Show I RADIO AND AUTO, TWIN BROTHERS IN DEVELOPMENT I ACTOMnnrLEs AND RADIO LEFT, ABOVE.'. DRIVER AS RADIO OPERATOR OF WOE BELOW, RIGHT, ABOVE, TOURING AUTO WITH RADIO BET; BELOW, "HOME-MADE" AUTO AND RADIO. I Two of the latent achievements o( mankind have Joined hands! Automobiles and radio. Henceforth, there children will ,trow up together, almost as twins, for their own Increased benefit and pleasure Signs of their progress come from ail parts of the I'nlted States. Automobiles Auto-mobiles are going on tours, hand-in-hand with younger brother radio. Even uutomobile buses have met en radio along for the pleasure of the 1 ,K occupants. Running out of Oakland, Calif., to neighboring t itles, one of a fleet of motor buses entertains Its passengers passen-gers with radio concerts picked up from the city. The chauffeur Is radio operator also. Highways throughout the country I will encounter the novel stunt of radio-equipped louring automobiles. A Denver enthusiast bus rigged up his machine with a complete radio receiving set so as to keep in touch with the city when-ver he may be. Mis aerial takes the form of a flat-top, lG-wlrc type. The receiver ; has a vacuum tube detector and three stages of amplification connected con-nected to a loud speaker. Tho auto- mobile's storage battery t'urninshes the filament current, and a radio "B" battery Is under the back scat for plate current. Another motor enthusiast has ' shown an equal Interest In radio by 'hulldlnir his own automobile and ; rudlo set. He Is K. E. Leppert, Jr , 17, of Harrison. X. Y. Young Ieppert designed and built j both machine and radio set complete. com-plete. Noa he takes his sister Verai i for a spin In the country, where thoy slop occasionally to tune In on a radio concert from a distant broad- I casting station. |