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...Buicks, longer and roomier, showed what .has been done since last May by the new manufacturing chief, I. J. Reuter, once with Opel. An automatic clutch and Startex (starter automatic with ignition switch) are standard equipment. Large doors opening flush with the running board add to the low appearance...
Hudson again offered a Super-Six, the first return to larger cylinders since the trend to multiple cylinders began. It has a ventilation-control system, optional automatic clutch control...
...cheaper and better transportation. And prouder than the Royal Family were the Industry's engineers. The Automobile Show is really their show. The new models on display were dissected a thousand times by their prying minds. Dignified men lay prostrate to gaze at the marvels of a new clutch. Nor will the observation of the engineers end in Manhattan. If Chrysler's Fred M. Zeder is curious about the new Pontiac he may have one sent to his plant and placed on his "Belgian Road." a machine which shakes and sways and jolts a car until finally some...
...chauffeur, knowing that Herr Hitler only wanted to ride to the Kaiserhof Hotel 200 yards away, threatened the crowd by racing his engine in neutral, produced an impressive 180 h. p. roar. Gingerly, while police struggled with the cheering crowd, the chauffeur let his clutch part way in. pressed the Mercedes' muzzle against the good-humored crowd which very gradually gave way. The car managed to cover the 200 yards in 15 minutes...
Driving such a car in "high."he British motorist will set his preselector for "second" or "first," knowing that sooner or later a hill or traffic pause must come. When it does he merely throws out his clutch and is shifted by a mechanical thingumbob into the gear which he has "pre-selected...