El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1916-08-05
LIGHTER CARS, LONGER AND NEAT
BODIES PREDICTED FOR FUTURE
Y Expert Looks for Many New Improvements in Motor
Cars; Number of Cylinders Merely Matter of Choice
But Motor Should Permit Starting or
High" By Pressing Throttle
BY JAMES r. FOUCH.

! action Of the rear wheel absorbers 20
] be controlled from the action Of those
! a. the front Of the carr For instance.
| We have all noticed that the rear or
tonneau Of the car receives Seemin CIV
| the double kick of all crossings and
! bumps traversed- Now suppose in pass
/ Ing over a rough spot in the road the
! front wheels received a heavy jolt.
! THIS would be communicated TO the
=, shock absorber at the rear and would
, change their action or tension to give
, the easiest action over a bump of the
/ intensity as registered by the front
wheels Food for thought with the
reward IN proportion to results OBJ
tanned.
Motive Power.
The kind Of motive power is also
! question; some are free TO predict a
straight electric car which idea IS
However, there is one feature hard 20
deny, and that is that half of the
present gasoline car is electric and
il would be hard to say where the cleo
trio part leaves off and the gasoline
car commences The advent OF the
magnetic transmission almost turns the
tide in favor of the electric, and il
would be pretty hard TO determine
whether TO call ii an electric or a gaso-
line car. The makers call it magne-
tic which still leaves the question IN
settled Probably the best way TO de
eide IS the same as used to determine
I am confident that in the near fII-
ture the owner Of a high class ca
may enter same at a curbstone AMI
by simply depressing his foot throttle
may start away on high using his
starting motor for the initial starr,
the motor taking up its functions i'm
mediately. and being capable of one
mile per hour speed on high should
be able to handle the situation per-
fectly after the car is barely in mo-
ton Speeds of from one TO so Mills
per hour should be had readily When
starting on a hill or when climbing
a hill too steep for the gas motor alOn.,
10 handle, the electric system would
he called upon automatically to supply
additional power to overcome the
grade or speed the car up sufficient.
when the electric motor would o. siu
come to rest and all the drivine uf,.t-
with the gasoline motor.
In threading its way through traf-
fic the engine would stop with the car
and start again when the car was
started. all with one small hand leve-
or foot throttle Plainly then. fuel
would only be used when the car was
actually in motion and at no other
gasoline
Much Lighter.
While this prophecy may seem ex-
treme. let II, be plainly understood
teat the chassis of the future will be
very much lighter than that OF the 1916
car. and probably the draw bar pull
viii he smaller. lighter. more efficient
and, above all more flexible Carbure-
ton will be greatly improved TO make
the future car perfect I'm fact every
piece, part detail and device VIII have
its effect on the car IS whole More
aluminium viii be used. and more hol-
low and tubular parts. and gasoline |
mileage viii go Up maybe as high as 1
20 miles per gallon
And then maybe ~Se price Of gaso-
inc or whatever name may be had :
or fuel in the future may 90 up maybe 7
IS high as 40 cents per gallon.
Come what may, We can rest as
'ured that Judging the future by the
last. and knowing there has certainly /
leen a 500 percent Improvement in
automobiles in the last five years, why
lot 500 percent Improvement in the
leXt five; and that being true. surely
10 miles per gallon and the ultimate !
ar can be expected.