Mt. Pleasant Pyramid | 1925-11-20 | Page 8 | Clutch on Modern Auto Makes Shifting Easier

Clutch on Modern Auto Makes Shifting Easier One of the most notable advances made by modern cars has been in the direction of easier and more quiet operation. The prevalence of women and even children in their upper teens as drivers of cars is perhaps the best testimonial of the great strides that have been made by automobile engineers engi-neers along these lines. Not so many years ago It was necessary neces-sary to have a good strong arm to crank a car an ordeal, incidentally, often performed In mud or puddles of water. Another essential was the possession posses-sion of a box of matches to light the gas lamps at night. There was also the inconvenience of gear shifting, with the clutch pedal requiring considerable con-siderable pressure and levers hard to manipulate. In short, driving a car was strictly a man's job. Electric garters and lights, instrument instru-ment boards, cord tires and, particularly, particu-larly, easy gear shifting revolutionized things, until today it is not only the usual tiling to see a woman at the wheel of a car, but women have become be-come actually as proficient as men in driving automobiles.