Word: extras
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...jealous pre-War German States. But last week when the last ditch, connecting Brunswick and Magdeburg, was officially opened up, no German raised his voice against it. Fear that Ruhr coal might start moving into markets supplied by Upper Silesia was quelled by a pfennig-per-ton-per-kilometer extra canal fee between Magdeburg and Hanover...
...Since extra features such as the Dragoons have had much to do with the Horse Show's present success, Manager King and the Horse Show's directors have hired the Dragoons to appear at every evening performance and at four matinees during the run of the Show this week. The fact that the Horse Show Association has publicized their presence so widely is one indication of what is happening to the National. The Show is becoming less & less an exhibition, more & more the kind of colorful pageant that the riding academies of oldtime Vienna put on before...
Most significant advance this year is the virtual disappearance of the familiar wobble-stick gearshift lever; almost all 1939 cars will sport some sort of steering-post-mounted gearshift either as standard or extra equipment. While most of these systems are merely conveniently placed substitutes for the old wobble-stick, some use the vacuum energy generated by the engine's air-intake systems to operate automatic clutching and transmission changing. A few 1939 models (with optional equipment) approach this trend's ultimate aim: to relieve the driver of all concern with transmission control, enabling him to give fuller...
...increased visibility through bigger windshield area; sliding sunshine panels in sedan tops; "catwalk-cooling" grilles low-set on the catwalk apron between hood and fenders to scoop up the theoretically cooler air near the ground. Adopted by no manufacturer but approved by the U. S. Patent Office is an extra-special gadget invented by David O. Wilson of Santa Monica, Calif.-at the touch of a button on the dash, this rear-end device waggles a derisive tongue and gives a Bronx cheer to the horntooter behind...
Chrysler. The six-cylinder Royal has been stepped up to 100 h. p., its price to $1,010. The Imperial eights ($1,198) have a new 135-h. p. motor. A "super-finish" on moving parts makes them fit to 2/1,000,000 in. Standard on the Custom job, extra on the others is the "Cruise and Climb" overdrive. Standard on all is a speedometer that sheds an approving green glow up to 30, an amber light through the 30s and 40s, a warning red over...