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...state that the Rickenbacker automobile was the only one equipped with four-wheel brakes (during its period of production). This is incorrect. The 1921 straight-eight Duesenberg was equipped with "simultaneously acting four-wheel brakes, controlled by a single pedal." Note also that these were hydraulic, not mechanical, brakes...
...models in the show ranged in price (delivered in New York) from $149 for Austin Motor Co.'s pedal-power racer for moppets to $14,780 for a Rolls-Royce town car. Most eye-catching entries were Daimler's linden green five-passenger convertible ($13,025) and a six-passenger black sedan ($7,150) which has collapsible tables for the rear-seat passengers, a cosmetic shelf behind the rear side-window, and a dashboard pushbutton to draw shades across the rear window. Runners-up were the Javelin Jupiter ($2,548) of Jowett Cars, Ltd., a dashing convertible that...
...average speed of 42 miles per hour over the tricky course, save gas by skillful driving (e.g.,-a gentle, steady accelerator pressure), use no trick gadgets. One driver, wearing neither shoes nor socks, had sandpapered the soles of his feet to keep a sensitive control of the gas pedal; others wore special footwear, built up on the right side to give delicate horizontal pressure on the gas pedal instead of a strong downward thrust...
...Manhattan's plush Versailles, Nightclub Satirist Kay Thompson solved a problem to her own fans' satisfaction. She likes to do her act in tailored slacks; some of her admirers demanded that she wear a dress. Her compromise solution: a new outfit she described as "pedal pushers surrounded by a split skirt...
...windows, covering three full city blocks. From its-vast collection of books and reports, U.S. citizens can learn how to run a pants cleaning shop or whether there is a market for hookah pipes in Nicaragua. Its archives contain patents for ornithopters (beating-wing flying machines) and a "pedal calorenticator" (a flexible rubber tube reaching from the nostrils to the inside of the shoes; the wearer can warm his feet merely by exhaling). In its basement is an aquarium left over from the Bureau of Fisheries (now under the Department of the Interior) where catfish, a man-eating piranha...