New-York tribune., 1920-11-14
Salon
Opens Tonight at
The Commodore
Sunday Opening of Motor
Car Show of Foreign and
American Autos Novelty
in Exhibition of This Sort

A novelty in the operation OF auto
mobile shows is the Sunday opening
(to- night Of the automobile salon IN
the Hotel Commodore. This display
which used to consist exclusively OF
foreign cars, has associated with 1T
,, great many of the higher priced Amer
lean makes, some of them shown be-
cause of the body work thereon by
coach builders.
Twenty marques are displayed. The
makes of chassis on exhibition are
Brewster. Collins. Cunningham. Dan
chester. Locomobile, Meteor, Minerva.
Napier, Packard. panhard, Pierce-Ar-
row, Porter, Renault, Rolls Royce, Sui
beam and Winton. Special custom
coachwork exhibits are by Aircraft,
Brooks Ostruk, Fleetwood, Healey, Hol-
brook, c. F. kimball, Locke, Leon Ru-
bay and United. In addition, two fa-
nous aeronautical engines will be
shown, the Rolls Royce Eagle, with
two transatlantic flights to its credit,
and the Wright t-Hispano.
Cars new to this country are the
English Manchester, and others that
are making a temperance after long
absence are the Napier, the Minerva,
of Belgium, and the Panhard, of France.
Particular interest attaches to the
display made by Rolls Royce, because
of the establishment in this country Of
a manufacturing plant for this we'll
known British make. Four cars and d
| chassis are exhibited in addition to
the aeronautical engine. Barker, Of
London, is the maker of a cabrolet Of
the Salamanca design, painted light
blue and upholstered in Bedford cord.
Another cabriolet is the American in
terpretation of the Salamanca by Wood,
OF New York. 1t is painted blue. A
four ur-passenger open touring model,
with cushions and seat backs in blue
whipcord and the rest of the body fin
ished in leather, has top in English
Burbank The fourth exhibit is lin
CUISINE brougham in maroon, with black
panels trimmed in Bedford cord.
Meteor, among the American cars,
of the foreign makes, will attract par
ticular attention. The exhibition runs
for week.
The Brooks -Ostruk exhibit at the
salon includes thEee cars, Rolls
Royce Salamanca cabriolet, four
passenger sporting trap on Delage
and town limousine on a Sunbeam.
The novelty is the sporting trap, as
the other two body equipments are on
StanQard BrOOkS-OStruk lines.
One of the novel types of equip
ment built by the Brooks Ostruk
Company is called the "sedan elite"
which is the medium size Enclosed body
with brougham seats in both com
partments. The division front window
may be lowered, completely covering
the interior of the body to resemble
sedan of the more or less stand
ard type.
The exhibit OF Resta Motors CON
ssts of four Sunbeam cars as follows:
four-passenger coupe, a Salamanca
cabriolet, a four-passenger sporting
trap and very smart brougham. The
lines of these four bodies are .distinc-
tive and original to a degree, the up
holstery, mountings and colors being
selected with the greatest care SO
as to harmonize perfectly.
One of the interesting exhibits in
the automobile salon will be the new
Minerva cars, six cylinders and with
an entirely new system Of spring sus-
pension The body equipment exhib-
tied at the automobile salon will be a
aix-passenger sedan constructed by
Brooks Ostruk