Word: windshield
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Smith & Carter. Two hours after the Army plane had left Oakland, two civilians-Pilot Ernest L. Smith and Navigator Charles H. Carter-set out to race it to Hawaii in a little Travelair plane. An unusual accident, the breaking of the navigator's windshield, caused the Travelair to return to Oakland in ten minute...
Rumored Specifications. With what purported to be bona fide information, Detroit newspapers last week described the new motor car to be produced by the Ford Motor Co. as having for standard equipment a self-starter, five wire wheels, speedometer, windshield wiper, gasoline gauge, oil gauge, dash light, Houdaille shock absorbers and four-wheel brakes; 34-h.p. engine; gearshift transmission; 104-inch wheel base; selling-price from $450 for the touring model, to $490 for the Fordor sedan and coup...
...20th Century Limited from Albany to New York in 1925. They are 33 feet long. They go 55 miles an hour. They are equipped with big Gar Wood Super Marine Engines, 12 cylinders, 500 horse power. Three men can sit abreast on the driver's seat behind the windshield. The most powerful Gar Wood costs...
...Zahler car approached, its gears whining softly, rain coursing down the windshield. At the bandit cry of "Halt!" Mrs. Zahler, nimble-fingered, tore off her jewels and slipped them under the seat...
...power, 23% faster accelerator, new instrument board. Oakland. "The rubber-silenced chassis"; new bodies, new Duco colors. Star offers "more power and superior quality . . . new body lines, new colors, new mechanical refinements." Studebaker stresses "The President"; "custom car without custom car cost." Stutz. Safety glass in all windows and windshield, with no extra cost; new braking system built by Timken; free "indemnity against loss of use resulting from theft." Fred E. Moskovicz, active, able president of Stutz Motor Car Co., returned from Europe last week. His weightiest statement was that his French consulting engineer and agent, Signor Bugatti, "the greatest...