The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1922-04-08
Standardization Of Automobile Body
 Names Big Accomplishment Of Year

nv An an,d Irish ri eosehman Of days sST gone Bradley has gone to take a ride in his fine handsome jaun1ing car. Wait pectfn' MT. Brown this morning, but as he won't be here for some time, I'll just go down town in the interim. And with that he got into what I al ways called his buggy and off he drove They do be havin strange names flor things these days
 And although Irish coachmen and buggies are no more. the strange names have been perpetuated with singular persistency by those who have to do with the making, selling and using of autom obfles.
 In the Illustrated handb ooks issued in connection with the national auto mobile shows from 1909 to 1921. a collection of automobiles calculated to turn the brain of the ablest lexi- cographer may be found.
 Some of the Old Ones-
 In the 1909 handbook are these, which make quite fair foundation for the later additions: Touring car, runabout, limousine, landaulet, broug- ham, speed-car, tourabout. baby ton neau, sportalb out, toy tonneau, fly about, country broughaIn.
 In 1910 other terms came into vogue, such as pony tonneau, minia- ture tonneau, runabout tonneau, abandonment, taxicab, speedster. town car, victoria, phaetOn (meaning small touring car without top( tor pedo, surrey. The 1911 handbook added coupe and the scoubb ody, while 1912 went in strongly for com pound words and offered the torpedo roadster, berline-lim cuisine and the suburban landau.
 In the 1918 book appeared as names not previously listed, torpedo-phae- ton, vestibule surburban. One lone newcomer appeared in the 1914 hand book. the 1andau-roaster- In 1915 we were introduced to the cOupelet, lam daulet-coupe. sedan, coupe-runabout, landaulet, the Riviera and the ca;brio- coupe brougham,' appeared in 1916. while tSurcoupe and tOursedan were reserved for the 1917 issue But the end is not yet. for in 1918 came along foursome, French sedane, all-season sedan, the sport-tour, cIubster, bull dog special, the flyer. sportster, sport marine. etc.
 So numerous. so freakish and so given to the different types of motor bodies that an expert body engineer. to say nothing of the rest of human, ity has about as small a chance of Identifying a body type by it's trade name as the college professors have of understanding the Einstein theory of relativity.
 Standard Names Reputed.
 Realizing that it would be advan- tageous to autom obile owners, dealers and manufacturers if automobile body names were definitely determined upon, so that when a certain name is mentioned or seen in print it will not be necessary to guess whether the word represents a bird, beast. or a. new kind of breakfast food, the Society of Automobile Engineers ap- pointed a committee to draft a tenta- tive accommodation for a. more sta ble and scientific nomenclature for -autom obile body types.
 The committee report recomme end ed the adoption standard of the following body names: Roadster. coupe, phaeton, sedan, berhne, linn cuisine, brougham, landaulet, cabrio- let, sedan-landaulet. rberline-landau- let, coupe landaulet, Imousine-aan- dau1et and brougham landaulet. Another type is included in the pro- posed nomec1ature. but the name will not be decided upon until the consen- sus of opinion of automobile and dealer advertising managers shah haveb cen determined. The name will, however, be descriptive of an enclosed single-compar1tment body with two fixed cross seats for four or five passengers. The principal req son for using the term ''phaeton" tn- stead of the term touring is that the latter has lost all of it's signif1-