.SWEDISH SAAB 93
Good-looking two-door car holds four people and has limited amount of trunk space. Three-cylinder engine has 80-mph top speed.
Dashboard is simple and unadorned. Engine was designed in Germany but is built in Sweden. Gas-oil mixture operates vehicle.
.Know Your War Planes
The engines push instead of pull—
Three wheels for short alighting;
Two cannon and machine guns too,
Keep Airacuda fighting!
.Travel in your Home
This deluxe home on wheels contains every convenience of the modern home—and some not found even there.
THE French inventor, Loubet, who holds a record number of patents on practical sporting and traveling equipment, has recently demonstrated the latest of his constructions for the benefit of people who like to travel and take their homes with them.
.THE CHANCE OF A LIFETIME!
WORLD CRUISE
FOR AS LOW AS $1325 including shore trips, visiting 140 world-renowned cities and places SHARE in the world’s wonders. Burma—Bali—Borneo—Bangkok: All regular ‘Round-the-World features and many unusual places that give added distinction.
I’m not really sure I’d put Newark, NJ on a list of the nation’s greatest cities…
.SUPERHIGHWAY JOINS TWO BIG AMERICAN CITIES
A thirteen-mile superhighway linking two of the nation’s greatest cities has just been opened between New York City and Newark, N. J. Starting at the New Jersey end of the Holland vehicular tunnel, its steel-and-concrete viaduct soars across rivers, marshes and crossroads to permit high-speed motor traffic.
.Spherical Drive Wheel Propels Odd Vehicle
Propelled by a spinning, motor-driven half globe at its rear, a strange three-wheeled vehicle recently made its appearance on the streets of Paris, France. The fantastic machine serves as an experimental model to test the inventor’s idea of a new gearless transmission, the speed of the vehicle being varied by tilting the hemisphere.
.AUTO “STAGE” DEPOT HAS COMFORTS OF BIG HOTEL
To provide comfortable waiting rooms for patrons, and furnish employes with proper quarters, an automobile transport company in the west has built a depot with accommodations that rival those found in modern hotels.
So, apparently in 1931, tuning a car radio was even more dangerous than texting is today. Also, Google Chrome, even with enhanced Google suggestion based spell checking, does not understand the word “texting“.
.NEW RADIO SET WORKS IN YOUR CAR OR HOME
A radio set that can be carried about like a suit case is designed for the convenience of fans who do not want to miss favorite programs while motoring.
If it began to leak then the ball wasn’t exactly air-tight…
Also, with its tethers attached the capsule looks a lot like one of the tripods from War of the Worlds.
.Ten Miles High in an AIR-TIGHT BALL
A HUGE yellow balloon soared skyward, a few weeks ago, from Augsberg, -Germany. Instead of a basket, it trailed an air-tight black-and-silver aluminum ball. Within Prof. Auguste Piccard, physicist, and Charles Kipfer aimed to explore the air 50,000 feet up.
While it makes a certain sense for the president of a company that makes hearses to drive a station wagon I really wish he’d drove a tricked out hearse.
.There’s Lots of Station Wagon in this 21-foot, 12-passenger job in which rear-seat occupants ride sitting backwards. Seats and walls are covered with two-tone leather. The carpeting is inch-thick, turquoise wool chenille. The car is air-conditioned, and recessed in one wall is a completely fitted beverage cabinet.
