Norwich bulletin., 1915-01-07

Drop stone in pool and the first result IS few large waves. Wait a little and these spread, and not only become more in number but less in from the edges of the pool will meet them and cross them. Still longer and the surface looks pretty much the same as before the disturbance.
 In much the same way new bus inesses affect the sea of public opin- ion. The automobile is a good ex- ample. Aside from a few struggling eXperimenters building a few cars, the first wave of the industry was a steamer wave. Then the gas car came 10 it's own and its waves began to follow each other. Everybody remem- bers the time a. few years back when an automobile had to be painted red, without top, and it's rear portion was much like q box stall with a. rear door. No danger of contamirsating the family in it by contact with the greasy leather coated mechanic on the front seat.
 Happily it's day did not last Iong in this land of equality but other waves followed. The next one had side doors at the rear, but quite forgot the front, which for a, year or two went without. Just how the requirements of beauty or service could be met by such a. combination of doors and no doors is not clear If the driver in front did not need doors why were there doors in the rear? Or if the rear needed protection why not the front? Such questions went unan- swered because style dictated and blindly its followers bought.
 Other but less pronounced changes followed and as the industry widened they became less noticeable. In the main the two passenger front and three passenger rear seat held sway. Occasionally two additional seats were fitted but the general design was all but universal in all family cars. With in the last year or two changes have been creeping in until the great show at Grand Central Palace. Jan. 2-9, will exhibit a goodly number of cars with much different seatings
 The speedster with no doors to its two passenger seat is one of the forms of the last year or two. Flat, low and raCy looking. it will please many who want a business looking vehicle with out gew-gaws. The three door body is also not new but will be seen in greater number this year. But the greatest advance has been in four pas senger bodies. The horse vehicle user stuck to two and four passenger bodies for family use and it is evident that the needs of the family have not greatly changed because of the advent of the auto.
 In the final analysis the two are company but three a crowd will prove as true in auto seats as in horse vehicles. And as the industry gets further away from the first waves of it's ignorance and enthusiasm it will follow the needs of the user more and more. This years styles show this more than ever before.
 One style to be seen is the chair seated vehicle in which portable chairs take the place of seats and can be arranged to suit the passengers or taken out altogether for cleaning or other reasons. Another style is the corridor" body in which the rear seats are close to the front and reached through passage or corridor between the front seats: the front door or doors serving all seats bv this ar rangement.
 Much like this is the body in which one of the front seats drops or folds out of the way, making an ample passage to the rear. The gain in con