Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1912-10-19
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II will be staged. like its two Atlanta
predecessors. in the Atlanta Audito-
rum Armory.
But it will be a new and transformed
Auditorium Armory. Exactly SIG, 900 in
real money viii be spent on the decora-
tons. The auto show is not paying for
it all. il is true. The same decorations
will be used for another show which
comes early in December. But that
makes no difference to the exhibitors or
the spectators al the automobile show.
They will get the full benefit Of the
handsomest lighting and decorating
that has been ever known in the South
for an affair Of this sort
More floor space has been provided
this year than ever before. This has
been done by leveling off the stage. by
decorating below the seats and by util-
izing carefully every inch of available
space.
The show itself will be one that has
r 'er been equalled in the South and
BIS a few times outside the three big
aut&nob!le centers Of the United states.
The greatest variety of cars will be
exhibited at the coming show. From
the very cheapest to the very highest
price, they viii all be there
Perhaps the most interesting side of
the exhibition will be the now vastly
improved cheap and medium priced
cars, now offered in such vast and at
tractive profusion.
Machines Perfect Now.
These new pleasure cars will largely
go into the hands of families making
their first motor purchases They will
he the families of the farming areas,
of the Wel-to-do fairly prosperous
communities of cities and towns scat
tered all over the United States. one
need only look at the occupants of cars
ON Peachtree street or Roswell road
the park drives and county roads on
any sunday to be convinced that the
mere possession of an automobile is no
badge of great wealth Notice how fire.
quently one sees d young father and
mother. with the children. starting out
for Sunday pleasure drive from their
unpretentious home-often modest
fiat.
What a change since the days of the
first automobile show in Madison
Square Garden, when running track
was provided so that manufacturers
could demonstrate to doubling Thorn
asses that the wheels would really go
round, and that the engine and car
could be started and stopped at will!
Those were the days when argument
was heated over the merits of vertical
and horizontal engines; of craftsmanship
over air or water cooling systems, dis
putes as to shaft or chain drive, stor-
age and dry cell batteries, all-steel
frames or laminated wood when the
electric systems on even the best cars
were installed about as crudely as the
average open circuit electric doorbell
IN a house, and nowhere near as relia-
BILE; when radiators were mostly tubes
with funny fins when the carburetor
was not much of an improvement over
an ordinary cologne atomizer, and the
lsa trto
gun.
Those machines. however. served to
demonstrate the feasibility of the auto
mobile. The bright minds of American
inventors. engineers and mechanics
have produced the fiawless. dependable
almost indestructible car of todsy-and
in a decade
improvements Came Fast.
improvements came almost faster
than one could keep track of them.
One by one the horizontal engines in
pleasure cars disappeared; the prob
lens of transmission and ignition were
solved for all time; carburetors be-
came models of reliability and eficien-
cy Engineers learned how to get
tougher metals. to design the moving
parts so that they became almost noise
less in operation. and various little re
fnements were added to make auto
mobile driving pleasanter, safer and
cheaper.
But Improvement did not stop there
With machines as reliable as watch
sri fey o.,