The New York herald., 1921-01-12
MANY BUY CARS
AT MOTOR SHOW
Six Cylinder Car Still Most
Popular Type, Exhibits
Indicate.

The automobile show at the Grand
Central Palace continued to attract
crowds yesterday morning, afternoon
ana evening and the best thing about
the crowds. according to dealers who
have been awaiting this show anXiously
for six months was that they displayed
more than an academic interest in the
r'unabouts, limousines, sedans and tour
ing cars. Sales continued 10 be made
in pleasing numbers.
The crowds who Inspected the cars at
the show noted among other things,
chat the six cylinder car still seems the
favorite with manufacturers. although
fours and eights are wen represented.
One of the features of the 1921 models
is that the cars are more completely
equipped than ever before Manufac-
turers. unable to improve their products
In a dozen different ways. as in the days
when an automobile was crude thing.
are paying more attention to details OF
all sorts
Throughout the show there is noted a
trend toward better cars than the intro
duction of radical designs Refinement in
former models are noticed in most in
stances. These include improved engines
aiming at greater economy of operation
and better performances and refined
body lines of a conservative nature
Chief of the improvements in the engines
IS that of the carburetor systems to cope
with the decreasing grades of fuels.
Carburetion devices have been developed
and manifolds redeslgned to provide pre-
heating of fuel. This has been done in
the interest of fuel economy.
1t w1s announced at the show yester-
day that James Martin. president of the
Martin Tire Corporation, New York city,
one of the exhibitors, had acquired an
interest in the Kelley Tire and Rubber
Company of New Haven. Conn, and that
the name of the latter concern has been
, changed to the Martin Tire and Rubber
Company. The Kelley plant will be
turned over TO The manufacturer Of Mar
tin cord and fabric tires and a line Of
tubes. Heretofore Martin cords have
been manufactured in the Akron district,
but with the facilities provided by the
New Haven factory sufficient production
will be possible to permit operations on
a large scale. Martin is president OF
the new organization.
The annual business meeting Of the
Society of Automotive Engineers, Inc
VIII be held this morning at 10 o'clocl.
in the Engineering Society Building, %
West Thirty-ninth street Committee
reports will be heard and officers will
be elected for the ensuing year. There
tives of the automotive industries.
Tonight in the grand ballroom of the
Hotel Astor the annual S. A. z. carni-
val will take place. This is the yearly
reunion of the S. A. Z. family where the
members, wives and sweethearts make
merry. 1t is the social event Of the
engineers and a record attendance is
promised.
Tomorrow the engineers VIII take up
the question of fuels and highways. Dur
ing the last year there has been a tend
ency to look for motive power for auto
mobiles that would cost less than gaso-
lene now taxes the automobile owner. 1t
is rumored that research has made this
possible and the results of the meetings
Of the automotive engineers should be
of great benefit to the industry in the
future.
At the show this year there has been
a tendency to cater to the women folks.
Cars now have not the intricate machin-
cry that bothered the female sex in the
past. Manufacturers have realized that
women would drive automobiles and
consequently have made the mechanism
of their product simpler. For this rea-
son women are among the biggest at
tendants at the automobile shows and
they prove their knowledge by being
able to talk to the statesmen Of any
motor car in the same manner that men
talked ten years ago.