The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1939-10-19
Every Auto Its Own Showcase By 1915
Plastic Bodies In Sight For Car OF Future

Lighter Engines
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are coming part way 10 meet shs
| composition cf riAssass with sheir
new plastic safety Kisss that VII
b~ used this year. This KiaHs VIII
bend and not break II hit hard
BErrER 0As
IN PROSPECT :.
Another new development VIZ
Ia In motor fuels. Al least one
| natinn-wlds chain Of filiing sta.
lions already Ia at up 10 handle :
90 ocians gasoline within The next
IA months.
on company engineers are work
| ing with car engineers toward an
| ginss Designed for ITO cotans rat
Inn gasoline. Thsy will hs stAn'
dard, Il u expected here. by isss
The thing u practically o.
schedule. three years from now
ruling stations may handle nothing
but 100 and ITO ootans gasoline
The present car snginss viii use
the new fuel satisfactorily. but the
new engines win havs much
higher economy and sfficisncy.
Those isls engines win gel 10
miles per gallon Of gas.
That engine win b much
smaller, and lighter. with higher
compression. They win have TO
20 back 10 the cadmium bearings
OF four or five years ago. OIL com
pany engineers now are running
exhaustive tests with the new ITO
octane fuels and with engines
equipped with the new bearings
that are necessary TO Withstand
the extra force and pounding az
erted by the new gas.
LIGHTER ENGINES
OPEN WAY TO CHANGE
These lighter and smaller en-
gines Of possibly three years
hence are what II Will take to
make the rear-engined car prac-
ticable. So. give the car manu-
facturers an additional two years
after the introduction Of the
smaller engine and the new fuel
to perfect the first resr-sngined
large-scale production car That
should be about 1o4o.
To get closer home and the 1910
cars. Many cars viii have the new
plastic safety glass.
Biggest innovation will be the
new sealed hcadlamps. which the
industry has gone for 100 per cent.
G. e. developed II In cooperation
with the car engineers. They have
been working on II over three
years.
In the c.. Il. lamp the reflector
and lens are sealed tight and form
the lamp bulb in which a vacuum
Is created and In which the fila
ment ls placed. There Ia no other
bulb.
other lamp manufacturers viii
use regular bulb, but their re-
Electors and lenses will be sealed
tight. All units Of all different