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...stimulating to alert imaginations was a third gem of news, the eighth in the column: Two men dressed in plus fours were seen by a policeman early yesterday morning throwing coathangers over the railings of Battersea Park. When they saw the policeman they jumped into a red saloon motorcar and drove off towards Chelsea. The officer found more than 100 coathangers in the park...
...years of service after which the average automobile retains no great expectation of life. It is estimated that 15% of U. S. families have two automobiles and 8% have three. Exported automobiles totaled 13.7% of production in 1928, should greatly increase in 1929. Thus the demand for the motorcar remains healthy, and Hoover prosperity is expected to provide the purchase price...
Immediate subjects of presidential talk en route to Wiesbaden were, of course, the mechanics of the Opel-G. M. deal. Every German motorcar maker knows that Opel's cheap ($650) standardized car last year controlled exactly half the German market (45,000 cars out of 90,000 total production). Yet G. M. executives, pondering Chevrolet's enormous success in the U.S., talked of scrapping the Opel, offering Germans a still cheaper car. Perhaps it might be the Chevrolet itself. Perhaps it might be a new make, lighter, with only 5 h. p., to sell at 1,800 marks...
Died. David D. Buick, 74, of Detroit, impoverished information clerk, motorcar pioneer; of cancer; in Detroit...
...ordinary motorcar engine, with its 4, 6 or 8 cylinders set in a line, or its 6, 8 or 12 cylinders arranged in a deep V. has much less wind resistance than the radial airplane motor. Cooling by water requires bulk and weight, yet many a large and powerful plane uses Packard and Curtiss water-cooled models...