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...size of this year's orchestra may necessitate the transfer of rehearsals from Paine Hall, enlarged last year to accommodate the then large aggregation of 65, to the roomier stage in Sanders Theatre...
...abuilding is Lockheed's parallel to the DC-3- the S-14, an eleven-passenger luxury version of the Electra. Last week Lockheed announced that the first eight S-14s had been ordered by Northwest Airlines, which bought the first Electra. In June the bigger, roomier S-14s will replace Northwest's present Electras on its 2,000-mi. run from Chicago to Seattle, give it the fastest fleet in the world-cruising at 224 m.p.h., with top speed...
Manufactured by General Motors, the new busses are chiefly notable in having their motors in the rear. This allows the driver to sit far forward, gives more room, makes the busses look almost the same at each end. They carry 36 passengers, three more than before, have roomier seats, indirect lighting. To eliminate "wheel seats" (seats over the wheel housing), the passenger deck is raised nearly 2 ft. so that passengers step up from the centre aisle. Made of aluminum, each coach is 5,000 lb. lighter than the old style, is rakishly painted to give an effect of graceful...
...race President Coyle entered two lines of Chevrolets, the Standard and Master De Luxe. The Masters have "knee-action" front wheels, new all-steel "turret" tops by Fisher Bodies, are longer, roomier, more streamlined. The Standards have conventional springs, conventional steel bodies. But while the Masters are priced at last year's levels, the Standards have been cut $10 on almost all models, putting them as much as $25 below Ford's standard line. In the past year Chevrolet sold about 100,000 of the lower-priced Standards, will push them strongly in 1935 as a good transportation...
Plymouth this year eliminated its lower-priced line to concentrate on the longer wheelbase. It abandoned independent front wheel springing but developed a new type of spring steel and, like Ford, moved the motor forward to improve the ride. Bodies are longer, roomier and pleasantly bulbous. Refinements in the motor are claimed to have increased economy...