The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-08-06

lean-to on the rear to hold some of the hat teries and another on front to look like ccw- catcher. He cramped tho seats and the leg room between-for long wheel base had not yet been invented either.
 THIS PIONEER DESIGNER of ours found both the dash and whip-socket there when his eyes first opened in a carriage factory He stopped to consider that, there being no horse in front, the need of dash had also vanished. Nor had it ever occurred to him how the whip socket came there originay-so he left them both on
 would have been the standard design up to now flor we find many features in electrics that are just as illogical-just archaic and just useless that
 TAKE THE HOOD FOR EXAMPLE-why should it be any electric? No reason on earth save that some designers don't think. ON A GASOLINE CAR it has use-therefore it is right. Handsome is as handsome does It covers the motor But do you know we in this country used to be ashamed of motor-tried for years to conceal it beneath the seat; till one day one of Gran'pa Dainler's cars came over from Germany-and forthwith we all i'm itated the Mercede hood and will probably con- tinue to it for the hundred years whether we need it or not. We are such an original people! NOW THERE IS ANOTHER DANGER-the danger of copying without knowing what or why you copy. Education, training, experience travel are requisite if would copy intelli- gently-artistcally
 COLONEL INGERSOLL USED TO SAY I'm agination cannot go beyond the range of ex- perence. No describe an animal he has He may describe one with the horn of rhinosceros, the mane of lion, the trunk of an elephant and the wings of an eagle. But that is not an anmal-it is monstrosity composed of various things he has or dreamed of"-a farccal. phantasmagorical. phe- nom, it
 NEXT TIME YOU SEE AN ELECTRIC on the street just stor and look it Don't laugh it might offend the lady inside And it is not her fault. She needed an electric, and bought the only thing she could find, though she will tell you her sense of the artistic and the beau tiful were offended by every line. She doesn't think it SO ugly now-one gets used to any thing in time.
 DON'T LAUGH-Though you will see several features .ft over from buggy design coupled with others from gasoline automobiles that are as funny--or as ridiculous-as was that whip socket on the dash of the earlier electric or Ingersolls composite quadruped. THE FLANDERS ELECTRIC is consistent in every detail-the graceful body curves, the dig nihed, though pronounced stripping, the flowing leather fcndsrs-even to the colonial lamps which especially designed for this car riage by Mir F. E. Castle
 II EXPECTED SOMETHING DIFFERENT" exclaimed prominent dealer when his eyes first rested on this carriage, but frankly. did not expect to see anything so beautiful and in such excellent taste this. Rumor said that you making electric that would create sensation. l feared it might verge on the bizarre-and for that class of trade of course that wouldn't do at all But ths--it is fautless exquisite There is not radical feature-not discordant note. It is true to every conven- tion--and it is the easiest riding car l have ever seen'
 NOT A "WHIP-SOCKET". ANYWHERE-not superluous feature-not even hood to i'm itate a gasoline and occupy room that should be devoted to passenger capacity