The Saint Paul globe., 1905-04-16
MANY CARS SHOWN
AT GERMAN EXHIBIT
Berlin Show Was Well Patron.
lied BY Ali Automo-
bile Makers

Special Gable to The Globe
BERLIN, April 15.-In the fourth inter
national automobile exhibition, which re-
Gently closed in this city, there were 800
exhibits shown by 298 firms companies
and individual makers, nearly three times
as many as in the previous show. OF this
number 270 were from Germany. 13 from
France. 5 from Austria. from Great
Britain and from Switzerland. While
this classification designates the national
ity of the exhibitors il does not explain
the nature of their exhibits. many
showed machines, motors. boats. etc,
made in the United States.
Regarding the general character and
significance of the exhibition. experts lay
especial emphasis on two facts. The first
was the large number of vehicles for all
purposes-racing, touring and everyday
city use-which in all essential respects
approached closely the Mercedes type. OF
dozen or more leading German makers.
practically all have adopted the pressed
steel frame, the same arrangement as TO
location of principal working parts the
same measurements for machines of any
given horsepower. and similar models of
bodies and tops. In one display there was
an improved type of the motor droskies,
which have become so common and popu-
far here as TO suggest that the time will
come, and probably at no remote date.
which is now so cheap and serYiceable,
Will be wholly replaced by the cleaner,
more compact and far speedier auto cab.
The second dominant fact was the large.
proportion of vehicles of various types
with hydTo-carbon motors for various in
dustrial, military and business purposes.
Nothing approaching this array of motor
omnibuses, drayS, heavy transport wag
ons and delivery vans had ever been seen
in Germany before. The development in
this direction is peculiarly German. in that
il is devoted to facilitating and cheapen-
ing the transaction OF business. rather
than to luxury or sport. Nothing was
more interesting than TO see the crowds
OF merchants. manufacturers and business
men of all classes around these new
transport vehicles. discussing eagerly their
merits and economies as compared with
horse power.
All the large department stores in Ber-
lin, several bTeweries besides furniture
dealers wine merchants even milk COM
panies now employ delivery wagons, with
steam or benzine motors. while the mu-
nicipal spirit is so earnestly in favor of
cleanliness in the public streets that every
favor and advantage is granted to the
new vehicles.
Among the most noticeable features of
improvement over the show a year ago
was the use of ball bearings wherever
they can be advantageously applied. to
reduce friction in the working parts of
the machine. This was an original Ger
man idea, and was first applied to one
of the early high powered Mercedes cars.
Now all the German machines and all but
the low powered French ones have bali
bearings throughout
Another novel feature was the variety
and ingenuity of the automatic oilers.
Nearly every important motor car builder
had developed some new idea about oilers,
the problem being to devise one which
would do its work quietly, economically
and infallibly, without watching. Among
the new oilers displayed was one which,
instead of pumping the oil in a small,
steady stream, spurted or elected IL inter-
mittently toward the working parts.
whereby, ii is claimed, the fabrication
was made more efficient