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...that at the Show a whole floor was devoted to specialties. It would take a car a block long to carry everything that was offered to refine the pleasure of motoring. There were windproof matches, cigaret lighters, electric clocks, radio outlets, pneumatic foot rests, fancy metal tire covers, heated windshield wipers, sunvisors. There was an ejector spring that opens the door at a touch on the handle. More costly was a shock absorber system operated from the dash which lets the driver adjust his car to the roughness of the road (called "ride control," featured on Buick, Graham-Paige, Oldsmobile...
...plus $25,000 cash to pay for liquidation, plus an unstated sum for some of the Triplex inventory. The large Triplex plant at Clifton, N. J., will be resold to Pittsburgh Plate Glass Co. which will be given manufacturing licenses, will share Triplex's big Ford windshield contract with Libbey-Owens-Ford. Triplex agreed to remain out of the flat-and laminated-glass field for five years, retains the right to keep any damages that might be awarded to Triplex if its suits for patent infringement against Pittsburgh Plate Glass should...
Last week such an inventor started suit against Ford Motor Co. The inventor was Arthur L. Banker of Banker Windshield Co. In 1907 he applied for a patent on a clear-vision windshield in which the glass was held by clamps on the ends instead of by the usual crossbar. Four years later the patent was obtained, manufacturing begun. According to Mr. Banker, Henry Ford came to see the windshield, in 1913, soon used it on his cars. Between 1925 and 1928 (when the Banker patent expired), Inventor Banker claims Mr. Ford caused him $6,000,000 actual damages...
Inventor Banker's company still makes windshields, but mostly for replacements since the newer one-piece windshield is now generally used. He is at present working on non-shatterable glass for doors and windshields. As is true of many a man in the motor industry, Inventor Banker was once a famed bicycle racer. Henry Ford never did like Bankers...
...carburetion by adding a combination "suction silencer and cold-air intake with seasonal adjustment," discarded rod brake-controls for cable controls. Price not announced. Reo introduced two new eights-"Flying Cloud" and "Reo Royale"-as well as the old "Flying Cloud" six. Bodies are French-designed, with a slanting windshield. Prices on "Flying Clouds": $1,595 up. Price of "Reo Royale...