New-York tribune., 1910-12-22
AUTO NEWS Of THE DAY
importers Salon to Furnish a
Striking Exhibition.
TO RACE AT GUTTENBURG
David Bruce Brown, Winner of
Grand Prize. Will Pilot
His Car.


Grand Prize. Will Pilot
His Car.
The Importers Automobile Salon. which
VIII be held ct the Hotel Astor January
20 Z, will be one OF the most striking ex-
hibitions Of automobiles to be held IA New
York during the show season.
The admission price has been made high
With the purpose OF excluding those who
merely come as curious sightseers- The
show will be more or less of social func-
ton. No attempt Will he made to crowd
rs many cars as possible into the space
allotted
The exhibition will be limited TO pas
senger automobiles There will be no ex-
hibit of motor accessories. SO that the
souvenir hunter will be in the minority
and he viii not hinder the seeker after
real Information concerning the latest for
eien models.
Mus5 of the cars have been on view at
tfae Olympia show in London. or at the
Paris Automobile Salon. They viii reach
this country within the next week or ten
Gays.
Space has been reserved for fifteen or
the best known European cars. and nearly
seyenty different vehicles win be shown,
She selling price OF which viii approach
the haif million mark. France will have
the largest representation, with the Re
Hault De Dion-Bouton, DarracQ, Panhard,
C. G. y. Peugeot. S p O., Vinot. and
Zedel. Italy viii be represented by the
rtaia Isotta-F -Fraschini and S. P a The
English cars will De the English Daimler
ana Napier. Germany will be represented
by the Benz which won the Automobile
Club O. Americas Grand Prize soid cup
iast Inorth.
Examples O. the best European and
.Anerican coacn work viii be shown, In
GLIDING bodies made by Bellevalette.
Million & .Jiuet. a 7. Demarest Co,
Eener Fills. Burr & Co. Moore & Mum
ger, J IL Quinby & Co. Rothsehild &
Co. and Holbrook. a big orchestra will
give regular concerts both afternoon and
evening. and plenty OF seats viii be pro-
Sf5ed tor Visitors.
Another automobile meet viii be held at
she GUtte,lburg track On January . David
7. BrUce-f Brown. who won the Grand Prize
race, viii compete in the Benz car which
he pilote. 10 victory ar Savannah. This
ssnce since the big fixture. The races viii
.xtart at lo:S1 O'clock IN the morning.
announcement was made yesterday by
.she Association Of Licensed Automobile
lrIa1ufa cturers that space has already been
assigned TO as6 different exhibitors for the
Part period of the eleventh national auto
mobile show in Madison Square Garden.
from january : 70 q. These concerns will
have their displays IN the great show
building from Monday, January 16, until
Saturday, January q. The Part l period,
from January 10 L. will be devoted ex-
cIusively TO gasolene pleasure vehicles and
accessories.
On the main floor there Will be twenty
one different makes OF gasolene and cleo
fric business or freight carrying vehicles,
: and fourteen other makes are to be dis
piave6 il prominent spaces on the elevated
platform.
The elevated platform also viii have six
ry-r2irls. EXHIBITS OF tires and accessories:
forty-eight accessory exhibits viii be 10
Gated in The balcony. sixteen accessory ex-
hibits win be shown in the concert hall,
rine in yne second tier and Roonn-7, eighty
one viii be located in the basement and
1wenty-eig}t exhibits OF motorcycle acces-
Eories viii be in the balcony.
While II IS generally acknowledged that
rhe hrst torpedo car ever built in this coun-
Try was turned out by the SeIden Motor
Vehicle Company OF Rochester, IT is known
cnlX by q few Just how the idea originated
II IS really the result Of a shooting ex-
redirios by George 3. jr.. and Henry r.,
CONS Of George 3. Selden, the inventor Of
rhe gasalene autonobi!e- As was their an
rual custom, the tEo young men were pre-
pairing FOR q weeks shooting at Conesus
Lake in the fan OF 1905. As the car was
SO bt used during the entire week Of shoot
ing. they realized the necessity Of having
some protection from the elements. They
were travelling without top because it
was easier 70 get about in the woods with
OH on= than with one Just before start
sng they had the trimming department Of
The company Et up the sides OF the car
with patent leather doors. which gave the
touring car very much The appearance Of
.the present Gay torpedo.
The leather sides were made straight
from the sides OF the front seat 10 the
dash. carrying the straight line appearance
eight through
During The vreek OF shooting this proved
SO successful that the idea Of : completely
closed car suggested ftself To General Man
sssr =. Il Salrons Of the company.
The engineering department studied the
matter carefully on the return Of the two
SeI6e1 boys. and Immediately went TO work
OF lines suggested by this way the car was
s5tted during The outing.
IS q result several bodies or these lines
were bGlilt in the fall OF 1909 by the SeIden
Eoror Vehicle Company, 9ir.. Salnaons
named the car torpedo.