The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-01-09
1921 AUTO SHOW
 BIGGEST OF ALL
400 Exhibitors Reserve Space for Grand Central Pal
 ace Display

Motordoms biggest yearly event, the national automobile show, will open in Grand Central Palace, New York city, 20 shows that have gone perore. Not only will the twenty-first annual dis play break all records but 1t VIII also be the most comprehensive automo- bile show ever held in the world. The first auto display was held in Mad son Square Garden in >1900, and had a total of only 66 exhibitors. There will be nearly 100 exhibitors at this years exposition. which will be held under the auspices of the National Au- tcmobile Chamber of Commerce. or this total SS concerns. will display pas senger cars. No motor trucks will bo displayed
 $. A. Miles, general manager of the national shows, both in New York and Chicago, has selected green and red the predominant colors of the decora- tons this year In the Palace the scores of pillars on the main floor will be hidden up to a height of 12 feet by trellis box arrangement, which will be entwined with vines and leaves. Exhibitors signs, and there will be hundreds of these, will be of raised white letters with a solid green back ground.
 NeW l Ofk ClLy VIII De the mecca or automobile enthusiasts during the next week.
 There will be no radical changes mo- ticed among the several hundred car models that will be housed in the Pal ace. Manufacturers are tending to conservatism in betterments, and the most pronounced change will be found in the straight stream lines that now extend from the hood clear back to the tonneau in some makes. Engines have been improved in many cases. but the four and six types still predominate
 In the accessory exhibits there viii be found everything that goes to aid the comfort of the motorist, whether he be going on a tour, or only a short trip. In fact, the show this year will be the most complete that has evcf been staged, and the entire motoring world is looking forward to it with keen expectation.
 Automobiles have gone far beyond the stage when they were called T luxury, only for, the wealthy, and when to own one meant the height of afluence. President-elect Warren G. Harding in a recent speech said:
 The tendency to supplement our present transportation facilities by a much more extended use Of improved highways and motor vehicles is so apparent that it cannot be denied that III LuluTe We VIII more ana more rely on this method of transportation" And it is safe to say that 50,00O, 900 Ameri- cans agree with the next chief execu- tive.
 Among the cars to be exnIprted this year are: Allen, American, Anderson Apperson, Auburn, Briscoe, Buick. Cad lilac, Case, Chalmers Chandler, Chev- ro1et, Cleveland, Cole, Columbia, Com nlonwealth, Crow Elkhart, Davis, De- troit Electric, Dixie Flyer, Dodge, Dor ris Dort. DuPont, Elcar Elgin, Fer gus, Fiat, Franklin, Friend, Grant Hanson, Hatfield, Haynes, Holmes, Hudson, Hupp. Jackson, Jordan Kissel Kar, Kline, Lafayette, Lexington, Lib erty, Lincoln, Locomobile, Lorraine, McFarln, Maibohm, Marmon, Maxwell, Mercer Milburn Electric, Mitchell, Monroe Moon, Nash National, Noma Oakland, Oldsmobile, Packard Peer less Piedmont, Pierce Arrow, Pilot Premier, Rauch & Land Electric, Reo Roamer, R. & B. Knight, Saxon, Savers Six, Scripps- Booth, Standard, Stanley Stearns, Stephens. Stephens Duryea. Studebaker, Stutz, Templar Velie Westcott and Willys Knight
 The cars being exhibited at the New York show for the first, time are the DuPont, Friend, Hanson, Hatfield. La Fayette, Lincoln, Lorraine, Noma and Piedmont