Self-Expanding Trailer Becomes Camp Home
EVERY YEAR the nation’s camping-trailer manufacturers go a bit further in their contest to see which can cram the most possible living and sleeping space into the smallest folded package. A new trailer expands electrically from the neat, low-slung package in the top photo to the full size 15-foot trailer at left below. Read the rest of this entry »
Sideways rocket makes crosswind
A rocket engine mounted on the side of a new car shows GM research engineers how it will react to any kind of crosswind.
The rocket’s thrust, from 50 to 200 pounds, can be accurately controlled, and the rocket can be mounted anywhere on the car. Instruments in the back seat record effect. Formerly, engineers drove a car through a blast from a propeller, but the quick passage was disadvantageous.
Cadillac 70
Add a lot of luxury to your leisure. Behind the wheel of the 1970 Fleetwood Eldorado, you’ll enjoy a whole new dimension in motoring pleasure. Performance as brilliant as its bold styling. The only luxury car with front-wheel drive, variable-ratio power steering and Automatic Level Control, Eldorado expresses the spirit of the seventies most vividly with its exclusive new 8.2 litre V-8 engine. Together they respond to your driving demands with the vitality, the precision and the smoothness you’d expect Cadillac to build into the world’s finest personal car. Leisure was never so excitingly luxurious.
New Fashions in Motor Cars
IF THIS depression has clone nothing else for the country, it has at least given lis finer motor cars. Displays of the 1932 models at recent auto shows in all parts of the country have shown many improvements and innovations in the popular-priced cars, while the more expensive models have become positively luxurious.
Refinements in construction and improvements in streamlining effects vie with the latest in snappy custom built bodies to attract the dollars of those who have them.
The ladies have come in for special attention with a built-in boudoir and a back seat driver’s instrument board.
new on the road
Parking Gage sounds a buzzer when you back too close to the curb. Hub caps and tire walls are protected by two, six-inch springs which close circuit when they touch curb.
Puncture-Proof Tire has nails, ice picks and a chisel driven into it to prove its toughness. Chicago police also riddled it with bullets with no effect. This tire can take it.
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New Car Streamlined Sidewise
TO do something new was the idea of William B. Stout, designer of cars and aircraft. Since a car follows the road, regardless of the direction of the wind, it is not necessary merely to consider the air resistance dead ahead. In this machine, easier steering against cross winds have been attained by the peculiar shape; as well as a much greater amount of space for the convenience of the occupants. Read the rest of this entry »
I’m pretty sure this is the EM-50 Urban Assault Vehicle from Stripes. I wonder if flame throwers come standard.
“Make it beautiful, craft it lovingly, and offer a variety of styles. People will love it.”
A simple philosophy. But most effective.
With it, we’ve made the GMC MotorHome something that captures the imagination.
We made it sleek. We made it low. We made it so it would slip through the air easily and handle responsively. We gave it front wheel drive. And tandem rear wheels. And air suspension.
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Mechanical Flying GOOSE Decorates Radiator Cap
For novelty in radiator ornaments, you’ll have to go a long way to beat this mechanical flying goose. As you speed along in your car, an ingenious arrangement of mechanism in the bird causes it to straighten out and flap its wings to simulate a real live goose in flight.
WHILE your car is standing still this wild goose isn’t so wild. He perches sedately upon the radiator cap surveying the world with a glassy eye. But as soon as you start up and shift into high he flattens out his tail, stretches his neck forward and begins to flap his wings as if he were going somewhere, and going there in a hurry. Read the rest of this entry »
Unique Portable Bed Rolls Back Into Automobile Trunk
THE latest in compact camping equipment for the touring motorist is a steel trunk which can be carried on the side or back of any automobile and opened at camp to divulge a rolled up bed, spring and braces. It weighs 100 pounds and carries a mattress, four blankets, two pillows and spring. The bed can be made up for use in three minutes according to G. A. Mayer, the California inventor. All of the frame parts are of the knock down variety and stow in the bottom of the trunk while the spring, mattress and bedding are rolled back into the trunk. The roller is operated with a detachable crank.
STREET SCENE, TOKYO STYLE
By Elliot H. McCleary
TRAFFIC IN TOKYO, the world’s largest city (population: 10 million), is, to put it mildly, dense, wild, fast, and furious.
The very diversity of vehicles, as well as their number, is startling. There are automobiles of varying shapes and sizes— Japanese, French, German, an occasional, looming Chevy or Plymouth.
Coveys of goggled motorcyclists thunder their motors at intersections, roar away in blue smoke when the light changes. There are three-wheeled trucks guided inside by handle bars. Read the rest of this entry »
CHILD SAVER
SEAT BELTS, if used in every car, could save at least 5,000 lives a year … reduce injuries by one-third, according to the National Safety Council. Many of those saved from injury or death would be youngsters—for drivers kill and cripple more children than any disease. Protect your children . . . drive with loving care. Give them the security of seat belts.
Published as a public service in cooperation with The Advertising Council
YOUR VICTORY CAR
By Brooks Stevens – Industrial Designer
THE American civilian is recovering gradually from the shock of his country’s complete entry into the greatest war in history and its necessary sacrifices. Production of passenger cars ceased months ago, and the public is getting used to the idea that the family auto must last for the duration, possibly longer.
It is not premature to talk of the postwar possibilities in this field of manufacture, for certainly it is one of the country’s largest, and one upon which the people are definitely dependent. Read the rest of this entry »
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