Evening star., 1933-05-28
~ HICAGO'S World Fair, A Cen
tury of Progress, opened yes
terday. News of this great ma
tional event is of twofold In
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tury of Progress, opened yes
terday. News of this great ma
tional event is OF twofold III
terest to motorists.
First. the attraction itself Is heralded
rs the greatest automobile show in the
history of the automotive industry.
Second, trip to Chicago can pro-
vide a very pleasant motor trip. The
distance is approximately ITO miles and
can be made without discomfort in two
DAYS There are various routes, OF
which two are better known.
One, the more southerly one, leads
from Washington to Winchester. Clarks-
burg. Marietta, Columbus, Lima and
Fort WAYNE into Chicago.
The other one leads through Fred
erick, Hagerstown, Uniontown. East
Liverpool. Canton, Mansfield. Delphos
and Fort Wayne, where the Southern
route joins.
Great Attendance Assured.
Automobile exhibits at the fair are
assured the greatest attendance ever
attracted by motordom. The duration
of the exposition, from May 81 to No
vember /, gives the industry five
months in which to display the very
latest improvements to a vast public.
The two largest automobile shows in
the country last only a week.
With the industry well along on the
upgrade to its former prosperity. the
fair comes at an opportune time to add
further impetus to motordom's fresh
start
Of the thousands of motorists who
will tour to Chicago, many will travel
in cars which they would have dis
carded long ago but for the fears born
of the now fading depression The
World Fairs great automobile show will
display everything that is new in motor
vehicles, thus furnishing a stimulus
needed to loosen thousands of tight
ened purse strings-to start the motor
ing public to buying new cars.
The wheels of scores of other indus
tries will hum again when the motor
industry is fairly launched on its way
to a successful revival. There are
scores of other industries which provide
the auto makers with the hundreds of
materials andsfnished products that go
into the modern car.
Three Special Structures.
At least three large special struc-
lures will house individual automobiles
at the exposition. The General Motors
Corporation, Chrysler Sales Corporation
and the Firestone Tire & Rubber Co.
will each have its own building.
Besides these accessory manufac-
turers will have separate exhibits near
by on the exposition grounds.
General Motors plans to put 81 ,200,-
600 into its exhibits at the fair. In
cluded in its display will be a COM
plete assembly plant, where visitors
can see motor cars put together piece
by piece and then driven on a special
concourse.
In one section of the Chrysler Build
ing, visitors to the fair will see cars
subjected to every possible physical
test by device known as the Belgian
roll. Here, too, visitors will be per-
mitted to drive cars on rollers through
O covered passageway.
The exhibits of other members of
motor industry will be displayed in the
Travel and Transport Building, the
famous structure with the breathing
dome" In this huge structure the
Standard Oil Co. will have a unique ex-
hibit, in which the evolution of oil
from its pumping from Mother Earth
to the finished product that goes into
the automobile.
The International Harvester Co. will
exhibit its numerous styles of tractors
and other automotiye equipment In the
Travel and Transport Building.
Other Big Exhibitors.
The American La France Fire En-
gine Co. will have on display here its
latest models in fire fighting equipment.
Other big exhibitors In the auto
motive industry are the Cord Corpora
ton with its five units, Nash Motor
Co., Packard Co., Studebaker- White
Co., Waukesha Motors and others
Other oil companies to have exhibits
in connection with the automotive in
dustry will be the Texas Co., Alemite,