Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-03-11
AUTO !
HAS SIX WHEELS
Replica of American Gen.
erals Car Feature of I
Motor Show Here
81 VARIETIES EXHIBITED
War Babies" With "Non-
Skid" Pocketbooks Com
ing in Big Numbers 7

a replica OF the automobile that car
ried General Pershing from front 10
front in France. complete in every de-
tain. even TO the four-silver star in
sigma Of fun general on tho wind
shield, is on exhibition at the annual
show OF the Philadelphia Automobiie
Trade Association in the Commercial
Museum.
The overseas special" as it is
called, is muddy gray in color ana
combines the strength and durability
needed for such work with the sim
pliclty and beauty of design desired in a
car carrying a parsonage of such i'm
portance. Even the glass-enclosed top is
designed with the idea of strength
The machine has six wheels. Two
are combined on each rear side for bet
ter traction. The installation is similar
TO the double-wheeled heavy trucks A
puncture or blowout in any one of the
four rear wheels would not materially
hamper the progress of the machine.
The car is the constant center OF an
interested group of spectators. all Of
whom are anxious to hear OF the work
OF the automobile OF which the one at
the local show IL n reproduction. A sales
man of the firm with the car on exhl-
bition Is kept busy explaining the func-
tions of the machine.
Go Forward Decision
A. T. Maltby who heads the show
committee of the Philadelphia Automo-
bile Trade Association. sponsors for the
show, said today that this years ex-
hibition .crystallzes all the seeming un-
certaintes that have prevailed since
the armisticc was signed into a definite
decision on the part of manufacturers,
dealers and purchasers to go forward.
and there is now one great overwhelm-
ing faith in the automobile world.
"Of course, the show finds the in
dustry in r. position unparalleled in the
past In the first place. there is an
unprecedented buying capacity on the
part Of the public, and the show had
not advanced many hours before It was
realized that there il greater demand
for automobiles than ever before. The
CHASING of passenger cars a. luxuries
and wartime Dropa ganda for saving has
no standing AT this years snow--they
are bugaboos OF the sorry past"
Fifty-seven Varieties Exhibited
Fifty-seven varieties OF happiness are
on exhibition. for that is the number
of makes of pleasure cars that are
being exhibited. But TO the man who
was behind the counter. so TO speak.
there is one big outstanding reason why
this seasons opening was a rare. splcn-
did event. II was not that the museum
had been carefully whitewashed and
furbelowed for the gala occasion. II
was not that real oranges nestled among
real ferns. that gave the center OF the
auditorium the appearance OF a Cali
fornia elysum. 1t was not that the
cars, new immaculate and up TO the
minute shone with sheen respondent.
II was none of these.
II was the fas. that tie war babies"
we're coming out in numbers to select
the sort Of carriage in which they would
ride during the 1919 season. In other
words. the persons who Wanted 10 buy
a car, or those who would buy car,
or those who were going to buy a car,
entered the exhibition hall with nom
skid pocketbooks that didn't swerve and
rum away when they heard the price.