Emmons County record. [volume] (Williamsport, D.T. [i.e. N.D.]) 1884-current, 1918-07-11
MOTOR CAROF 1851
Push-Button Control and No
Steering Wheel Predicted.
TO ELIMINATE. Ugly ANGLES
There Are No WaII-Like Windshields
and No obtruding Fcnders-5rakes
Are Applied Automatically
No Pedals.

Let me show you the motor car or
1851, Waldemur Kaempffert writes In
McClure's. First of all you are struck
with its sheer beauty Of line. There
are no abrupt, ugly angles. Curve
melts into curve within II grace that
you associate with the form of a swan.
There is no wall-like windshield; there
are no obtruding tenders. BY 1912 the
designer of airplanes had discovered
that u large, correctly designed bulk
! is more easily moved through the air
than mass composed of projecting
wires, stays, wheels, arms and legs
that each projection, however slight,
rakes the air and leaves an invisible
wake behind 1t.
Els work was not lost upon the mo-
/! tor-car designer. The streamllke body,
as 1t is called. made Its appearance
about 1915. BY 1851 not only will 1t
have been generally adopted, but it
will be far more refined than anything
which we can now display. 1t will
part the air as gently, as smoothly as
q pike slips through the waters Of a
lake.
What We May Expect.
We may expect in the motor car of
1851 something akin to push.button
control. The guiding Of q motor car
or truck In these days Of the motor
cars infancy Is no mean physical per-
formance. Arms and legs play far
too important part In motoring. II a
locomotive engineer were thus depend
ent on his muscles there would he no
4 7O-car freight trains. NO 20-hOur trnIn
between New York and Chicago. Think
! of the physical demands now made up
ON you and then ask yourself II you
| have not the right to demand that by
! 1861 inventors will have tossed gear
shift levers and brake pedals upon the
4 scrip hemp.
The ideal motor car Of the future
! viii have Just one controlling lever,
md no more. See, as pull or push
| the lever, turn the power on or OF.
| Did you notice how the engine slowed
1 down and how the brakes were auto
matically applied as the car slackeas
In speed? There are no pedals to op-
ernte. The speed Of the engine de
termines how hard the brakes shnll be
applled-in other words, in what dis
4 tance the car shnll be brought to q full
stop.
Abolish Steering Wheel.
In q country threaded with superb.
" smooth thoroughfares the steering
waeel will be abolished With little
handle you will guide the car OF 1851
to the right or to the left. No tense
muscles will ne called upon TO avoid
collisions. Steamships have long had
ders that weigh many tons. The steer
ing engine Is controlled By the whee'
on the bridge. SO in this car Of 1851
the little steering handle causes mo
tor to turn the front wheels to ths
right or to the left.
We do 1t in 1917, but 1t Is wrong
egregiously wrong to drive a vehicle
from the rear. Why? Becnuse it I.
easier tc pull than to push. The tu,
boat pulls las barges; the locomotive
pulls Its coaches; the freight handler
on our wharves pulls his hand-truek
Nature seemed to have discovered lonf
ago that pulling is easier than push
ing. Unlike the car of 1917, the motol
car of 1851 will therefore be pulled By
; It's motor.
And the motor itself-how differen
from the engine Of 1917! Gasoline
will cease to be motor-car fuel in 1880
There will not be enough oil In th'
world from which enough gasoline cal
be distilled. The alcohol and electric
motor will take the place OF the gaso
Line engine.
%. E. RURGE SELLS LEASE AMI