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...matter of routine, County Coroner John Clarence Dingman performed an autopsy. In Supreme Court at New City, N. Y. last week Charles Lewis' father sued Coroner Dingman for $10,000, claiming he had suffered that much mental anguish because his son's brain and spinal cord, which he said the coroner had removed, had not been buried with the rest of his remains...
...Cord Group was led by four huge Duesenbergs with a combined value of about $55,000. Duesenberg, controlled by Cord Corp., is reported to be planning a new line but the exhibits last week were the famed custom models, some with exposed exhausts, all priced above $13,500. Reaching down below the $1,000 class were Auburns, not much changed from last year. But Auburn's trump was the new front-wheel drive Cord, the only completely new car at the Show...
Front-wheel drive is no novelty. Cords with forward driving axles were introduced in 1929, discontinued in 1932. What made the new Cord exciting was that it incorporated front-wheel drive in a completely new design. The body is low and sleek with a rounded rectangular one-piece hood that opens from the front and is banded with vane-like "Venetian" (blind) louvers. Water and oil caps are under a cowl lid on the right, matching a cowl ventilator on the left. Front lights are retractable like an airplane's landing gear, disappearing into the fenders when little cranks...
Front-wheel drive is a safer method of power application than rear drive because the vehicle is pulled around corners, not pushed. Another advantage is reduction in below-the-springs weight, prime factor in riding quality. Unsprung weight in the Cord is about 300 lb. less than it would have been with rear drive. The cumbersome gear lever that protruded from the dash on the old Cords has been replaced with pneumatic shifter controlled from the steering column...
...completely new car from the Lincoln plants, it was named the Lincoln-Zephyr. Powered with a V12 engine, it is currently made in only two models, a two-door sedan at $1,275 and a four-door at $1,320. Its body construction, like that of the closed Cord models, stems straight from Walter P. Chrysler's adventures in aerodynamics: like the Airflow Chryslers and De Sotos, the Zephyr has no conventional frame; wheels, engine and running gear are mounted directly on the rigid, trussed, steel body...