Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1940-10-06
National Unity
To Be Stressed
AtAuto Show
No Foreign Models
To Be Displayed;
Ford Tokes Part
Bv DAVID J. WILKIE,

DETROIT, Oct. 5.-To the auto
mobile minded it's 1.-The greatest
show on earth" to the men
who make motorcars it officially and
formally inaugurates new model
year to those who see signifi-
canoe in everything it presents
tangible evidence OF American in
dustry's productive resources.
It's the 4lst annual automobile show
that opens in New Yorks Grand
Central Palace next Saturday to
continue through October 20.
The show this year is IAN all
American" presentation, no foreign
makes being displayed; with Ford
showing for the first time in IS
years it we'll might be called also a
united industry" show Certainly
it is the showing OF an industry
more closely co-ordinated than at
any time in its history.
There will be no tanks. machine
guns or airplanes on display but the
place of the motorcar industry in
the national defense program will
be the subject of many talks sched-
uled for the various meetings that
make up an annual automobile
show week.
Sounds Keynote.
Max M. Gilman, president OF the
Packard Co. with definite and ten
tative contracts for approximately
$3.50 900 900 worth of Rolls Royce
aircraft motors, sounded the indus
try's keynote recently when he re-
marked:
I'VE have a terrific job to do. all
Of us. 1t can be done. but we must
all work together.
Just how we'll the various units
of the automobile industry have
worked together will become appar-
ent next spring when thousands of
tanks, airplane engines, machine
guns and other implements of de-
Tense begin rolling from assembly
lines in specially designed factories
While the industry's mass pro-
duction methods are being adapted
to the manufacture of these mill
tary machines. the assembling Of
automobiles in large volume is going
on uninterrupted: it can go on with
out interruption. say the motor
manufacturers, regardless of what
demands may be made for the out
put OF war materials.
Approximately 200 passenger cars
and trucks and dozens of gadgets
in addition to approved accessories
will be on display at the show. Eye
appeal.plus has been engineered
into all of the 1s4l models.
Body Changes Made.
For the most part all of them are
longer, lower and wider; running
boards have been eliminated or con-
cealed in many Of them: two-tone
exteriors and hArmonizing color
schemes for interior finishes feature
q number of the new lines.
While engine power has been in
creased materially in nearly all OF
the l94l types relatively little me-
chanical change has been intro
duced. Some of the vehicles have
broader and deeper tenders. Two
competitors are giving renewed en-
phasis to automatic tranSmisSions
Dramatizing the progress the auto
mobiles has made since the Duryea's,
Appersons, Ford and other pioneers
first applied power to small buggies
will be an exhibition of IS or 80
historic vehicles. covering the pc
Rod from 1895 to 1851 what has
been called the "goggle-and-duster'
era of motoring.
Perhaps the most famous of these
old timers will be the Thomas
flyer" of 1906 that won the New
York Times New York-to-Paris
round the world tour; the 1897
Holsman "auto-buggy," and the
Studebaker electric mule" that did
service in 1909 transporting United
States Senators underground be-
tween the Senate Office Building
and the Capitol.
During the model year just ended
the motor industry produced 4,182,-
l43 cars and trucks. Estimates for
the year ahead ventured by makers
enthusiastic over the reception ac-
corded the new models range from
SOC, 900 to 4,85O,OOO