Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1911-08-06

WE CAN'T CLAIM ORIGINALITY either We
go farther back than that fellow who invented
the dash. The earliest ancestor Of the Colonial
carriage was the sedan chair--Enost luxurious as
well as most artistic conveyance ever devised
Then came the Colonial carriase-swung on
leathern straps This was the carriage Of kings
and OF our torefathers
IF YOU'VE BEEN TO EUROPE. you have Wis
ited the various palaces and museums there
versailles, TOR example. There you saw Ma
pofeon's Coronation Coach At Munich YOU saw
that of Ludwig and Macmillan. TIL, Sc mag
innocent equipages were of this design. 1t was
this fact that the French gentleman had in mind
Who when paying US visit the other day. saw
the Flanders Colonial Electric and exclaimed
"UH sesifdgs digne 6En ,oi" (Freely translated
carriage worthy of king)
LET US SUPPOSE YOU KNOW NOTHING
about art-yet you could not pass a Corot or
Millet unimprested. You are not versed in
architectural lore-but sit you down in a eathe-
oral OF pure Gothic and you would be over
Whelned by even though you could not ex-
press IN words, your emotions. Nor can you
listen to Beethoven sonata without being pro-
foundry moved by the marvellous melody
much as you may protest you like rag time"
better.
NO; ONE NEED NOT BE AN ARTIST to ap
preeiate the truly beautiful-thst instinct is in
herent in all of US. Art but caters to our de-
sires-only we are not always conscious of that
fact.
WV w IOO &OmHAKE the FLANDERS
Colonial Electric with others, you may not be
able to analyze the difference Only designer
could do that But you will feel, even more
than you viii see, that here is art-there It's
antithesis Here beauty, chaste, harmonious
there a nondeseript half AZ mobile half
buggy. ard all discordsnt-
WE HAVE TALKED OF BEAUTY to the ex-
elusion of every other consideration. Do not
think, however, that any other factor has been
neglected in this car. We believe beauty is the
hrs IL
them are driven by ladies and arc much used
for dress oeeasions-as well as trips through
the park, shopping. theatre, clubs, etc.
BESIDES THERE ISN'T MUCH ROOM for
improvement in efficiency in this type Of car
Electrical science was some years since brought
to very high degree of accuracy Despite the
foolish statements you read in some advertise
ments there is nothing really new under the
sun either in motor batteries. Both are
known quantities and the knowledge is free 70
any who will seek il.
ANY GOOD ELECTRIC will go as fast and as
far as you viii ever want to go. Besides-
digest this-sn electric vehicle can be made 10
60 faster or tarther-either, but not both
than any other type of seh-PropeIled vehicle.
And the how" is no secret either Let US send
you our little booklet-"Wse and Foolish
Statements About Eiectrics.@
WE DON'T PRESUME TO KNOW more abou,
electricity than Steinnetz or Edison or Tim
norman. So we DIDN'T try to revoludonize that
soience-we proclaim no woodworking i'm
provements innovations. Instead we have
embodied in this vehicle only standard cleo
trical practice-up-to-th minute in every i'm
provement of course-but accepted, tried and
proven standards
THERE WERE THREE WAYS however. by
which our skilled engineers saw they could
obtain greater efficiency than others less skilled
by reducing wind resistance weight and fric-
ton to the last possible degree. We have done
that-the Flanders Coupe sets twelve inches
lower-2o% less wind resistance; weighs ESQ