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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Many a distinction exists, however, between G. M. and Opel for G. M., began as a motor car producer, is only 20 years old. But Adam Opel began making sewing machines in Russelheim when Yankee volunteers retreated from Bull Run. Early in the 80's Founder Adam bought an English bicycle for his son, and in 1886 added a bicycle factory to the Opel works! Clever merchandizer, he knew selfconscious Germans would hesitate to appear ridiculous. Accordingly, he provided Opel halls where amateurs might learn to ride Opel bicycles. The Opel cycle factory is today the largest...
Latest and most spectacular of all Opel experiments is the low, winged rocket car. Inventor Valier, Builder Sanders, tried it secretly last April over the Opel tracks in Munich. But in June, young Fritz von Opel, sporting son of a gruff Geheimrat, sent it at a speed of 156 miles per hour over railroad tracks near Hanover. Nine-foot streaks of flame from the exploding rockets trailed its deafening roar. A solitary cat, its only passenger, trembled. Suddenly it skipped the track; the remaining rockets blew up; cat and car burst into a thousand blazing fragments. Spectators cried, "Devil Car...
After manufacturing 5,000,000 Chevrolets, General Motors turned its back on the four-cylinder motor car. Last week saw the beginning of production of a "Bigger and Better" Chevrolet-"A Six in the Price Range of the Four." Dealers will get the six-cylinder Chevrolet on and after Dec. 15. First deliveries to the public will be made...
...will bear supporters of the Crimson to within inconvenient walking distance from the Bowl, the prospective passengers are concealed by the bustle of more picturesque travellers. Dull indeed are the ears that have not registered the consternation attendant on the phrase "he isn't sure he can get the car". In fact the less conscientious eavesdropper has found that genuine football pilgrims are characterized by an almost universal lack of assurance...
Coupled on ahead of even the Tenno's private car was that which bore the Sacred Mirror of the Sun Goddess, a divine, holy and potent relic comparable to a Crown. In one legendary instance the Mirror was nefariously buried and concealed; but the Sun Goddess at once caused it to project upwards from the ground a radiance so transcendant that impious beholders were blinded and driven mad. Since then prudent Japanese have taken no liberties with the Divine Mirror, originally inherited by the first Tenno Jimmu from his great-great-grandmother, Sun Goddess Omaterosu O-Mikami, who established...