| Show WHAT CAR DO YOU LIKE Ag 48 Auto Is Child of Evolution That sleek snake snake hipped hipped automo- automo automotive automotive I tive beauty that you probably are waiting list for is a shiny ex- ex example example on a fit fit- fittest fittest of the survival of the ample in- in industrial industrial operating in the test principle world descendant is the evolutionary It different makes of cars different differ of 2200 the market appeared eared on app appin which have during the 55 alone this country in since the first gasoline pow gasoline pow powered years ered automobile drilled down the pike different manufacturers manufacturers Of those 2200 introduced their prod prod- products SS who the American scene only into tato continue In actual production 21 today cars car In the U. U S. S tion of passenger this car's years year's s 's models Nevertheless much to these enterprising owe manufacturers who failed to sur- sur surI I vive Many of them in the true evolutionary spirit added some some- something something something thing new that was incorporated into the cars we drive today High on the list of of- major engineer engineer- engineering ing contributions by companies no longer in hi production according to the Automobile Manufacturers asso asso- associations association's associations association's associations association's data is the steering col col- column column column control introduced by Pierce in 1904 Brush brought out a car in 1907 with coil springs and in 1909 Hup- Hup mobile caught automotive engi engi- engineers engineers seers by surprise with its single unit power plant engine clutch and transmission The center gear shift shUt control by King in 1910 caused a sensation un un- unequalled unequalled un- un unequalled equalled in the motoring publics public's l L JiG i i o z eye until Pierce-Arrow Pierce put head head- headlights headlights headlights lights in the fenders in 1914 And the Dusenberg's wheel four-wheel hydraulic lic brakes of 1920 were little short of revolutionary When Eddie brought out the car in 1922 he added the to automo automo- automotive automotive automotive tive equipment The Franklin con con- contributed contributed contributed the covered running board to the automobilist with the Pirate Phaeton in 1933 Although all of these companies have disappeared from the field the engineering discoveries they spon spon- sponsored sponsored sponsored live on after them and some of the refinements offered today are based upon improvements which were displayed in bold type in cata cata- catalogues catalogues catalogues published around the turn of ot the century I i jJ i |
