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...number of truck makers are specialists. Four Wheel Drive Auto Co.'s product is popular with municipalities for road building and snow removal. Marmon-Herrington also makes four-wheel drives, largely for the Army. Hug, another contractors' and municipal truck, is made in Highland, Ill. Few people suspect that Yale & Towne (locks) is a builder of electric trucks...
What motormen do know is that 1935 models gave them a prosperous 1935. Therefore instead of risking untried developments, they polished up this year's cars with refinements and improvements for the 1936 season. There are no major innovations like self-starters, four-wheel brakes, high-compression motors, balloon tires, freewheeling, independent front-wheel suspension. Only notable change was the date of the Show, which was moved ahead from January to November to streamline the curve of production and employment...
...giant electrostatic generator (TIME, March 7, 1932). There they joined newsmen and M. I. T. engineers and miscellaneous scientists. In the gloom loomed the generator- two gleaming 15-ft. hollow aluminum balls, each atop a 25-ft. column of textolite, each column mounted on a massive four-wheel truck. The two trucks were on a single track which ran the length of the hangar and beyond. Small manholes opened into both aluminum balls which were rigged up inside as compact laboratories...
...Union Pacific train will consist of three cars hinged together and seating 116 passengers. Four-wheel trucks will carry the entire train-one under the fore end, one under the rear end and one under each car joint. The whole will be thoroughly streamlined with windows flush and operating gadgets pocketed. Motive power will be electricity generated in the forward car by a gasoline (or butane) motor, otherwise by an oil-driven Diesel. Exulted Chairman Harriman last week: "The train is fully streamlined to a greater extent than has been attempted to date either in this or any foreign country...
Last August Vincent Bendix, industrialist son of a Methodist minister, who starts and stops most of the world's automobiles (Bendix Drive, Mechanical Four-Wheel Brakes), gave to Swedish Explorer Sven Anders Hedin $135,000 with which to proceed to China, draw plans of two ancient Lama temples and buy their trappings. Last week Mr. Bendix was thanked by King Gustaf of Sweden for one of these temples which he had given to Stockholm. It will cost some $65,000, will be erected by Explorer Hedin, who will assemble the other one, also at Bendix expense, in Chicago. Purpose...