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...Wolfe noticed the large popular interest in motor boating and reflected that a standardized motor boat, built on a mass-production motor car basis, could be sold at a price within the reach of the moderately well-to-do. From this idea, with amazing rapidity, resulted the Meteor Runabout, a 27-footer which seats ten persons, makes 30 m. p. h. and sells...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business & Finance: Motor Boats | 2/4/1929 | See Source »

Speed. Motor boats grow yearly more speedy. Most of the runabouts and outboard models will now do around 30 m. p. h. Called the "World's Fastest Stock Runabout" is the Baby Gar "50," built by famed Speeder Gar Wood. The "50'' will do 50 m. p. h.; the "55" (the same boat with a more powerful engine) will make 55. Swift, too, are Chris-Craft runabouts, the Chris-Craft Sport Hydroplane also reaching the 55 m. p. h. mark...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business & Finance: Motor Boats | 2/4/1929 | See Source »

...ones in great advertisements that its $25-h. p. Cyclone is built for the great air lines and heavy-duty express planes, its 3OO-h. p. Whirlwind for multi-motored passenger carriers, its 225-h. p. Whirlwind for medium-sized passenger planes, its 150-h. p. Whirlwind for small runabout planes. Topping those advertisements, Wright's then announced that they would manufacture the loo-h. p. De Haviland Gypsy, a four-cylinder-in-line air-cooled engine (the other Wrights are radial air-cooled) for small gadabouts.† Usufructs of this astute advertising: people have bought twice as many...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Chicago Show | 12/17/1928 | See Source »

Rich brokers pored over faster runabouts or the flat snouted, roomy sea sleds. Small watermen gazed knowingly at single and two cylinder power plants for staunch waterfront wanderers. Children chattered over the countless, bright colored flat backed outboard boats, dragged parents by the coat tails begging them to come buy. The famed Fantail racing runabout which made such astounding speeds in the late autumn was a continuous curiosity. At an easy angle under her stern projected a bronze colored tail, raising her out of water, reducing hull resistance. Miss America V, world's record holding hydroplane, arrived...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Show Boat | 1/30/1928 | See Source »

...respite today, permitting the squad to accept the invitation of J. Pierpont Morgan '89 to spend the day aboard his palatial steam yacht, Corsair. Yale's first and second crews are also inactive, taking an excursion as the guests of General W. W. Skiddy on his trim power cruiser, Runabout...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: UNIVERSITY EIGHT MAKES FLASHY TRIAL | 6/13/1927 | See Source »

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