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Dates: during 1920-1929
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path of the others. The new gun has a vertical range of 15,000 feet, and a horizontal range of 27,000 ft. Its flaming "tracer shots" will serve the added purpose of setting fire to enemy aircraft. Its projectiles will pierce armor plate one inch thick at 12,000 feet. Each weighs about a quarter of a pound...
...most radical mechanical change" is "the widening of the transmission brake band by ⅝ of an inch." The engine remains unchanged. The chassis has been markedly lowered, as in Le Ford Francais - the company's French product...
...driver in the roadster and touring model. The Tudor (two door "coach") and the Fordor (four door sedan) will blossom respectively into "deep channel green" and "rich Windsor maroon." Heretofore all Fords have been black. All but these two models will remain so. Other "radical improvements" are: (1) inch larger steering-wheels on all models; (2) seats 4 inches closer to the ground and more ^ reclining; (3) radiators⅝ of an inch higher, and nickeled in closed models; (4) gas tanks under cowl (instead of the drivers seat) or roadster, touring car and coupe...
...tests already conducted, holes were burned in two-inch steel plates at a distance of one mile. Dead trees have been fired at the same distance and animal life has been snuffed out at distances ranging from two to seven miles. Dummy planes also have been destroyed in air tests. . . . There is no doubt at all that this stroke could be sent in any desired direction for 20 miles...
...hardness, what softness was proper to a tennis-ball, the International Lawn Tennis Federation last week passed a regulation standardizing the resilience of balls in the U. S., England, France and Australia. "Under a pressure of 18 lb., the ball shall not be compressed more than .315 of an inch or less than .290 of an inch...