The Washington times., 1911-08-05

FIX THE FORM IN YOUR EYE-the artistic
lines, the graceful eurves-hx it in your mind
for this is the design Of the future for al high
grade electrics. Within a year-wfthin six
months-this Flanders design viii be copied by
half the other makers
1T is THE LOGICAL as we'll as the most beau
tiful form for an electric carriage-and when
you think of it it is the only logical we'll
it is the only really artistic electric yet designed
rides LIKE A HAMMOCK" was the way
lady expressed it-and a glance at the
curved frame and the long. graceful springs
with axles set well in front and of body
convinces you that the riding qualities of this
are superior to those of any other.
WHEEL BASE IS 100 INCHES and step is just
10 inches above the pavement when is
loaded. Car seats adults iberally-3 m
and in front-and will seat persons
comfortably. Compare this with the ordi-
nary. high perched eectrics with short wheel
base that rock like slia in sea on slightly
wavy asphalt and pitch and toss dangerously
bad piece of block pavement.
OR COMPARE 1T WITH THOSE imitation
automobiles in which valuable room is taken
up by a hood and the four passengers are
cramped in-two seated fairly comfortably and
the other two on half width folding seat so
low only a child can occupy it Ia comfort.
JUST LISTEN TO THIS-it is interestins-it
explains something you have wondered about
why electrics have been ugly, SO cramped
for room inside, and unstable because of
their short wheel base and highly perched con-
struction
THE FIRST ELECTRIC built in this country
had whip-socket on the dashi Now don;t
taught that is absolute fact. And II s sig
nihcant if 1t is humorous-it shows how
devoid of thought the designing of this type of
car has been up to now.
WHY IN THE NAME OF REASON was that
whip socket there7 Tell you why Originality
is the rarest human quality. Only one man in
million can think independently.
HOWE LOST A LOT OF TIME when he first
tried to invent the sewing machine He thought
it ought to like lady-and surely no
self-respecting needle could have eye any
where but in the head 1t took him a long time
to decide that he dare put the eye in the point
of the needle-when he had done that he had
invented the sewing machine.
NEVER THOUGHT OF THAT BEFORE
did you? Most likely not Most people don't
look below the surface of things-rnost de-
signers of electrics are that way
NOW THAT FELLOW who put the whip-soch.
ct on the dash of his electric car not only com
mitted one foolish act-he guilty of two
the dash had business there either But
that simple idea had never occurred to him.
THOUSAND YEARS BEFORE he was born
some genius had added to his two-wheeled cart
piece of bark to prevent the nag kicking mud
in the face of the lady he was trying to pro-
pose to:
THAT WAS GOING SOME in inventon-and
it was several hundred years later that another
bright youth bethought him of socket to hold
the "gad"-whips were invented later-so he
could have one hand free to hold the lady On
the insecure seat
THEN CAME ELEcTR1cITY-or rather the
harnessing of it-and an electrically propelled
carriage for Milady became possible He tried
to design one. That was the first and only
lucid idea he ever hadi And all he did was to
unhitch the horse, lay away the shafts. build