Evening star., 1925-05-31
What About the New Car?
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thing left off it or out Of il because
Of the cheapness. I want them all
want self-starter and self-stopper
and clock and a barometer and hot
and cold water-I mean all the little
things that good cars have up in
front.
In general design like four
wheels, one at each corner AS TO
the number of seats TO have the mat
ter Is difficult one. People who
have a car with two seats find II
terribly annoying when there is an
extra person whom they would like
10 take in; they need the third seat
the worst way. People with cars
with three seats find that they need
fourth seat the worst way People
with cars with four seats find they
need the fifth seat the worst way. 7
know a man who has car with 10
seats; he says that a 10-seated CIR
is all right but the devil Of II Is that
you can't take in an eleventh person.
On the whole, perhaps the fewer
seats the better. The plague of the
extra seats is the necessity that It
brings of Offering lifts TO casual
people. I find myself as I drive down
town with Fred in the morning being
perpetually plagued by having to pick
up odd friends and drop them al
their Offices
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| THINK if I were designing a car
I would meet the difficulty By hay-
| ing a. trap door in the floor of the
car-in the main body Of it, I mean.
| behind where Fred and I sit. Then I
| could with a clear conscience pick
up a friend and take him along: when
he said, Drop me AT the corner OF
| Main street. ! would say, Right
| oh!' press a spring and drop him.
| Now that I think of it, this same
! improvement in design would be in
valuable while driving along country
roads in solving the problem of the
tired pedestrian. Like other owners
! pathy into taking these people up.
1t is a mistake. The man at first
| is grateful and his gratitude is re-
freshing. But he soon grows tire
| some. By the time he says, The mo-
tor is a wonderful convenience after
ALL" 1 do wish l had the trap door.
/ The only other definite improvement
| I could suggest is in regard to the
rate and regulation of speed. The
problem of high speed-how to attain
| it and keep it with perfect security,
is one on which I have reflected deeply
and which l think I may say have
solved
Everybody knows that in reality
the most comfortable rate at which
to travel is about Is miles an hour
whether this is fast or not is a rela-
tive matter. 1t is about the speed of
a runaway horse when described as
''madly tearing through the streets"
| In any case it is a very pleasant rate
at which 10 move in a motor.
The only trouble with it is that IT
doesn't look fast enough on the speed
! indicator. People like to watch the
indicator mounting up from 40 to so
miles an hour and enjoy all the dare
devil feeling that goes with the furi-
Gus pace. So, in my car L should
| like to have an extra little cog wheel
| inserted in the indicator so as to
make it go four to one. At Is miles
an hour If would mark so, and one
would get, by watching the indicator,
the glorious sense Of flight such as
only birds, like myself, can enjoy.
! At times, indeed, have even thought
Of detaChing the indicator and using
it without the car But as that might
be bad for the motor car business
| perhaps ii is as we'll not to suggest
/ il in this place. ] fear that 1 have
suggested enough already for any one
/ layman.
| (Copv-iEht, 1921