The sun., 1916-12-17
TO FEATURE BODIES
AT NATIONAL SHOW
Gigantic Array Of Cars in Pal
ace Will Be Rcplcte with
Features.

Show time Is fast approaching. Amer
ica's greatest exhibition Of motor cars
and accessories Is but three weeks of.
the seventeenth annual automobile show
under the auspices OF the National Auto
mobile Chamber Of Commerce. Inc. open
ing at Grand Central Palace on Saturday
afternoon at 2 O'Clock. January 3. and
continuing for one week. That the forth
coming event will be the best OF its kind
ever held, not only in this country. but
abroad as we'll. is anticipated by s. A.
Miles. who manages the annual shows at
New York and Chicago for the manufac-
turers' organization.
While there have been large shows
held In London. Berlin and Paris in the
years before the war. the exhibition Mt
Grand Central Palace will undoubtedly
eurpass them all In point Of number OF
exhibitors as well as being distinctly and
couprehensively representative of the
nations motor vehicle industry. All Of the
exhibitors will be American manufactur-
ers and they will include those whose
product provides pleasure and recrea-
| ton and the highly important business
! transportation for the man Of moderate
means as well as tho vehicles OF the
companies catering to tho more select
whose purse Limitations are rela lively
more extensive. The show will mark the
Introduction of numper Of new cars.
mostly in the moderate price class. but
the main group OF exhibitors will be COM
| posed OF the companies whose activities
nave been the foundation stones upon
which the industry has been developed
The real pioneers OF the industry whose
vehicles are the sterling OF the autonio
bile world are among the prominent ex-
hibitors
Seldom has a show afforded n prospec
! tive car owner such a wide selection oi
models as will the Forthcoming display
No matter what the price Limitation oi
how distinctive the body design may bs
the man In search OF a vehicle conform
ing with his idea OF construction ant
price without doubt will find 1t among
tho ears on view at the Palace. Their,
il such wide range IN the prices OF the
show cars that It will he possible Z,
satisfy any purse. II is estimated thai
there will he between $50 and 400 car,
and chasses on display. representing
about one hundred makes. and the price,
OF these ears range from 1896 to $4,000
with at least one chassis selling fol
$4,000.
Not only will there be an apprcciabl,
variance in the prices OF the cars. bu
every one Of the sixteen types OF bod,
! rtNl les on the market to-day will be in
cluicl among the exhibits And bodice
will represent one OF the most interest
ing features OF the show TO tho man II
search OF changes In the 1917 model.
over these OF last year. Few companies
have made radical changes I'm the me
chanlcal construction OF their new
models the changes In most cases beins
reflected in the body design and mino,
refincments in the chassis and engine o,
in the equipment
Heretofore there has been a good hea
Of mlsconccption IN regard 10 tho cor.
rect definition Of the various types oi
bodies fitted to plcasure car chaeecs
THE Society of Automobile Engineers ha,
officially defined these bodies SO that the
situation IL now considerably clarified "
this respect. one may now call "A CLOSED