Word: carly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...first U. S. passenger car with a front-wheel drive...
...Monday about dark," he confessed, "I told him we would go down on Water Street in East Macon and lay for a liquor car. He went along all right, thinking we were going to hijack somebody...
...Henry used the trolley cars to go to the factory leaving the sedan for Aurelia. Almost every morning she drove down town, left the car in a hired parking space, and walked to a department store, taking note of her reflection in all the plate glass show windows on the way. In the store she might spend an hour pricing things and perhaps matching a shred of silk, buying a pair of stockings, a small vial of perfume or a box of scented powder. Then she would hurry to keep an engagement to lunch indigestibly with Stella Greeley...
...inches closer to the ground than the average car...
...salient facts concerning the new "mystery" automobile, now definitely in production and soon to be offered to the motoring public. From an engineering standpoint, the distinctive feature of the Ruxton (named for W. V. C. Ruxton, partner of Spencer Trask Co., bankers, and a director in New Era Motor Car Co., Ruxton builders) is the front-wheel drive, previously used in only a few trucks and racing cars.* Sponsors of the Ruxton maintain that the pull of the front-wheel drive is a more efficient application of power than the push of the conventional rear-wheel drive. More apparent...