Los Angeles herald., 1910-01-02
MODERATE PRICED CAR
DOMINATES TODAY
LONDON MOTOR SHOW IS AN
ALYZED BY AUTHORITY
Car of Moderate Size, Moderate Power
and Moderate Price Is Leading
Type of Today in For
eign Show

That the recent automobile show in
London was in many respects the
greatest ever held anywhere is tho
opinion of Walter c. White, second
vice president of the White company,
who returned to the foreign Office of
his company, and has just given out a
general interview of his views on the
European situation. These views, by
the way, are of general interest as
showing the tendency of the motor car
industry over there.
'Inasmuch as Paris and Berlin did
not hold shows this winter says Mr.
White, the London show in Olympic
palace had no competition as the great
international exhibit of the leading
makes of the world. More automobiles
We're shown in Olympia than have ever
before been brought together in
single exhibition. To be specific, in
last months London show, there were
597 complete cars and chassis, against
$50 mt the 1908 Paris show and 3S1 at
the last Chicago show. In past years,
some of the continental makers have
not exhibited their products at London
and on the other hand some of the
English makers have not taken their
machines over to Paris, with the re-
suit that one really had to see both
y
year at Olympia the worlds greatest
cars were all shown on one floor under
one roof, and unequaled opportunt-
ties We're afforded the critical visitor
to study the latest tendencies in motor
car construction.
"The car of moderate SIZE moderate
power and moderate price was su-
preme. 1t is hardly an axaggeration
to say that the leading car of every
exhibitor was of that type. As re-
CARDS details Of construction, there
was, of course, the widest possible di-
vergence just as there is at any show
owing to the fact that different makers
stand pat at different points along
the path of progress. But as soon as
the visitor to Olympia limited his
study only to the cars of rld-Widc
reputation which have from year to
year practically set the pace i'm de
sign. the resemblance was so startling
as to demonstration that the leading
designers, in their striving for the ideal
car, have all been led by the logic Of
the situation toward a certain STAN
dard.
1.-THE block engine construction-the
casting Of the four cylinders in one
piece-has been adopted by every for
eign maker who has brought QUE a
newly designed car in the last two
years and the same applies to the long
stroke engine, as the advantage of these
features have been thoroughly de-
mcnstrated With the adoption of the
block engine, there is a we'll defined
tendency to simplify the engine by
reducing the amount of piping, wiring
and other outside appurtenances. Those
makers who have made the most
progress along these lines have ELI
minated all external manifolds and
! have included the intake and exhaust
passage within the engine casting. BY
| this construction, they have gained
the further important advantage OF
| heating the intake gases and water
cooling the exhaust gases, thus making
a great stride forward in economy ol
| fuel, besides increasing the amount OF
power abtainable from cylinder of q
/ given size. AS regards ignition, the
majority of the leading makers de-
pend entirely upon the magnetic An
other feature which has become prac-
/ tically standard construction is the
use Of four-speed transmission in the
| high grade car of moderate power.
1T was naturally a source of much
| qualification to me that our new gaso-
line car was ranked with the five or six
leading foreign makes as being OF the
most advanced design and that oui
steam car is maintaining Its position