Battlewagons for Today’s Fire Fighters
1. New American-LaFrance-Foamite aerial truck illustrates compact power of postwar fire engines (See “Here Come the New Fire Engines,” p. 66). Unlike old-style articulated trucks, it is a single unit and needs no rear-wheel tillerman. Steel extension ladder is 100 feet long—15 feet more than prewar type—and holds eight men when it is supported at the top.
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This doesn’t seem like such a good idea.
PEDAL LETS YOU STEER CAR BY FOOT
A device recently placed on the market by a Los Angeles, Calif., manufacturing firm enables auto drivers to steer by foot pressure for short distances. Pressing a foot pedal causes an arm to spring up and engage a spoke of the steering wheel. Then the car can be guided by a side-to-side movement of the pedal.
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Electricity May Supplant Nets in Taking Fish
Catching fish by shocking them with electricity is an experiment being tried by the Australian State Fishery Station, at Sydney Bay. A fishing boat has been fitted with charged electrical grids or electrodes of copper that are submerged in the water. Powerful electric generators force a current through the water between the electrodes, shocking all near-by fish, which then float to the surface and are picked up alive in large nets.
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Meet the new FORD “Country Squire” Station Wagon
The “Double Duty” Dandy of them all!
Carries 8 big people in comfort… handles half a ton of freight with ease, thanks to “Stowaway” center seat and “Flat-Deck,” one level cargo space.
Just Look…
1. It’s got more flat carrying area than any other station wagon in its class. Simply remove rear seat—no tools required.
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Galaxy of Huge Bridges for San Francisco - Oakland
CALIFORNIA’S native sons boast of many tilings, such as invigorating climate, variegated scenery, soil fertility, and now they are to have another item added to their list—a bridge with the world’s largest suspension span.
This will be the Golden Gate suspension bridge, now under construction, anil but part of a galaxy of huge bridges which will facilitate the movement of vehicular traffic in the western seaports.
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Novel Rowing Car Provides Good Sport
What this country needs is an exercising’ machine that will provide good sport as well as build up muscles and tear down excess avoirdupois. At least that is the belief of the New York manufacturer of the novel whirligig car shown above.
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New Cars for Old!
YEARS ago, a joke was very popular, concerning a very popular car. In brief, it ran that the would-be owner of a Model Zee had torn down an old shed and, reading that the manufacturer of his car was a large purchaser of scrap iron, shipped him a large crate of corrugated roofing, to apply on the price of a new shivver. A few days passed, and he received a letter from the service department of the factory: “Dear Sir. We are unable to tell what kind of accident your car met with, but we will repair it, as good as new, for $49.98.”
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