Evening star., 1933-10-15


are made. This, however. according to
Mr.. Van Duzer, has been corrected by
new shipment and the tags will be
ready on time.
The 1894 Auto Vocabulary.
One Of the interesting con1ectures IN
connection with the impending intro
duction of new models by motor car
manufacturers has to do with what
they will add to the vocabulary OF the
average motorist. according to an Asso-
ciated Press report.
New words and phrases have been
added to the motorists language al
most as fast as mechanical advances
have appeared in the product Of the
automobile industry. To the foreign
visitor interested in motor cars the
average American motorist appears
truly to speak another language IN more
ways than one.
When the automobile first assumed
importance as commercial product. 1t
| was little more than motorized buggy
and the terms and phrases used to de-
scribe its various parts were more COM
i mon to the pioneer makers of the We
hicle than they were to the prospective
purchasers. In the early days of the in
dustry too. the producer often was his
own salesman and he depended more
upon a demonstration of the driving
| and riding qualities Of his product than
he did upon his ability to describe 1t in
inspiring technical terms.
AS the early "horseless carriage" be-
came an automobile in fact, however,
and owners undertook to be their own
mechanics. more general, II rudimen-
tary, understanding Of gasoline engines,
compression, gear shifts, tranSmissions,
torque tubes, differentials, throttles and
spark plugs developed.
In the more modern era of the motor
car such phrases as octane rating and
"tetra-ethyl' as applied to gasoline
quality have been more or less common
in the conversation Of the average
motorist.
With the passing of the old style
high pressure tires and the appearance
meaning Of gear ratios" in the steering
wheel assemblies has become more ap-
parent to the owner or driver Of the
current type Of automobiles.
Foreign Words Once.
Oil filters, fuel pumps. high COM
preston engines, tensile strength" of
metals, down draft and dual carbure-
tion, "dished" front wheels, cam
shafts. fender wells, AUTOMATIC neat
control, three-point frame suspension,
free wheeling, synchro-mesh transmits
sion, torsion balance, straight eights
and Weights, and twin skies, and other
terms descriptive OF the integral parts,
accessories or styles of the modern
motor car constitute only q few OF the
words and phrases that quarter of q
century ago were foreign to the speech
OF the average American citizen.
Because each years new models
have added at least a few new de-
scriptive words to the motorists Ian
guage, there is every likelihood the
Forthcoming 1884 types Will prove no
exception.
Not very long ago silent second" as
an all-inclusive expression, made its ap-
pearance as the automobile engineers
discovered how to eliminate the grind
ing noise Of the intermediate speed of
the motor car. Subsequently came "air
intake silencers" and Temperature
control"
Already there is being heard for the
coming models not a little about "in-
dependent springing," but those who
have watched motor cars and vocab-
ularies develop say there will be more
than this one new phrase to be added
n the rnOfOriSt'S fund of words