The Washington times., 1923-01-21
PREDICTS
NEW AUTO DESIGN
Canadian Expert Sees Super
Car in 1943 After Viewing
Paris Shows

A certain car manufacturer who
should know better has stultified
himself by advertising his current
model ais the ultimate model. The
ultimate model is not yet as the
vernacular has it, by long shot.
Indeed In the profession of automo-
tive tengineers you will find many
among those who have won their
laurels and speak with authority,
who will aver that the car of twenty
years hence will resemble the car Of
today as little or less than the con-
temporary conventional car resem-
bles it's progenitor of the closing
years of last century,. says Warren
Basil Hastings, M. S. A. E., in Ca
madam Motorist."
Today on this continent there are
experimental cars running that,
though their engines are choked
with carbon accumulated by over
sixty thousand miles of running, cam
not be made to give carbon KNOCK,
thanks to superchargers cars that,
though as large as a Packard single
six, weigh less than q Ford owing
to the fact that they are completely
made OF new aluminium alloys; cars
that are propelled by Diesel and
semi-Diesel types of engines Peugeot
at the Paris show introduced a semi.
Diesel engined model; cars with air.
cooled motors of new design (the
General Motors copper" cooled is
an example) that approximate in ef
ficiency the water-cooled Jobs Din
into the labs" and you will find
strange things in various stages of
experimentation.
For moment let us turn our at.
tentlon to England and Europe.
Here are many skies" with less than
tWo-thirds the piston displacement
of Ford. Here are "fours" with
equilibrators that maintain a con-
stant center of gravity and thus over
come the inherent fault of the -four"
Here Gni England Rolls.Royce is
producing a new and lighter model
with overhead valve motor ari semi
elliptic springs all around. Here lin
italy that great designer, Lancia,
has produced a 122-inch wheelbase
car with a four-cylinder valve in
head motor, cylinders in pairs. V
type to the extent of 20 degrees
though cast mOnobloc-a car without
a frame, with sprung front axle
front springs spiral type with built
in shock absorbers and snubbersl
that does over thirty miles to the
gallon of gasoline and, i'm speed, Is
miles per hour with remarkable road.
ability and absence of sway. Mark
this: 1t weighs approx 'mately half
as much as any car of it's size in
production in Canada or the United
States and the Lancia for years has
been known as the Rolls Royce of
Italy.
The Fiat light skies that won the
French Grand Prix and the Italian
Grand PriX were equipped with en-
gines having about two-thirds the
volumetric capacity of the Ford en-
zine. these eagine4 Gid better than
900 r. p. m. yet it is hut few
short years ago that 5000 +. p. m.
were deemed about the limit for. in
ternal combustion engines.
Rumpler startled the motor world
at the Berli n show a year ago by in
Producing a car without a visible
radiator or hood-a car in which the
engine was mounted directly over the
rear axle and concealed under the
body. 1t is very likely that in the
car of a score of years hence the en-
CINE will be as inconspicuous as the
motors in an electric trolley car and
that the control will he as simple rs
operating the lighting sw tches: lu-
IRRIGATION will be automatic through
ont. carbon knocks and the na ioritV
of other trourI $ 10 which cars are
now n prey will hc unheard OF ana
punctlres and blOwoutS no more
He would be a hardy prognosti-