Comedy motion-picture producers go to great expense to evolve new and absurd situations in which the cast perform, and the elongated automobile shown in the accompanying photograph is a late instance of this. An old car of well-known make has been transformed into an imitation motor bus, whose excessive length of wheelbase and the sagging, [...]
Employing an automobile for sleeping purposes is possible with a machine now found on the English market. The car, a small runabout or roadster model, has a removable seat and back. These are so arranged that the occupant lies in a comfortable position, his head near the dashboard and feet extending to the rear of [...]
An automobile funeral car with a compartment that will seat 36 people, in addition to space for the casket and flowers, is attracting much attention in Cleveland, Ohio. The car has been used for a number of funerals and takes the place of nine closed carriages and a hearse. In bad weather it can be [...]
One of the fastest automobiles in the world is here shown with its inventor, Walter Christy, at the wheel. The machine has been driven around a circular track at the rate of one mile in 57 seconds, although it is claimed that it has never yet been driven at its fastest speed because it becomes [...]
To settle a wager, a Los Angeles man sent his small, chain-driven automobile over the hurdles recently with as much ease as his opponent took the barriers on a spirited jumper. Car and horse raced down a field side by side, the auto taking the leap over the barrier after running up a short platform [...]
A cowboy owner of an automobile, Waddington by name, claiming Cisco, Tex., as his home, has saddled the “pesky critter” to make it seem more like the kind of mounts he is used to. The saddle is strapped over the bonnet of the automobile, and his friends say the way he can rope a steer [...]
The aerial-propeller driven automobile of Bertrand de Lesseps, a brother of the well-known airman, has shown itself particularly efficient, due, according to the inventor, to the peculiar shape of the propeller, which is called a “rotary-wing.” The shape and curve of the propeller are based on those of a bird’s wing. The first long trip [...]
Ingenious plans whereby a smooth concrete auto road may be run for 33 miles through a difficult pass of the Sierra Nevada Mountains, and a great transcontinental railroad may acquire, at the same time, a system of permanent concrete snowsheds, have been completed by a western engineer. The design for the new snowsheds provides them [...]
With a view to rendering a service which all attract patronage, a number of conveniences, including a rest room for women customers, have been included in each of numerous automobile service stations now being erected in various cities. The structures are of pleasing design and stand in the midst of grounds that are well cared [...]
A unique motor car recently was exhibited at Atlantic City, New Jersey, which also can be used as a boat. The motor is capable of making a speed of sixty miles an hour on land. When the driver wishes, it can be driven into a body of water, by manipulating a clutch, which throws the [...]
An Up-to-Date “Strong-Man” Trick. The illustration shows a novel “strong-man” trick which interested many people in German cities where the performances were given. Two strong-men, lying on their backs, hold up upon the bottoms of their feet a runway over which a large automobile, in which five persons are riding, is driven. Image/Copy credit.
Here is something incredibly new and revolutionary. More mysterious than anything since the first discoveries of radio! As uncanny as electricity itself! Actually more useful and valuable than the self-starter on your car! As easily controlled as your headlights! Inexpensive! No wonder it has turned the motor world topsy-turvy overnight! Imagine having a car that [...]
A subterranean passage, somewhat resembling the secret underground exits of medieval castles, differing only in the fact that it is more commodious, is traveled by up-to-date conveyances, and is not secret, is the latest acquisition of the United States Senate. It leads from below the senate wing in the Capitol to the new senatorial office [...]
An automobile equipped with a wireless telegraph apparatus was recently shown at a Brussels exhibition, and although the tall mast fitted on top of the limousine would doubtless be an unsurmountable inconvenience to touring, such an equipment is now being used in army operations and is found to be satisfactory. A number of armored automobiles, [...]
The Packard Motor Car Company, of Detroit, is making the first deliveries of the new Packard “Eighteen” town car. This new Packard is exactly like the 1909 Packard “Thirty” in design and construction, but has smaller proportions to adapt it especially to the requirements of city and suburban driving of all kinds. It is furnished [...]
An animated cartoon about Mr. Nobody Holme, who warms up his sluggish automobile with the assistance of a stick of dynamite. Story by Tom E. Powers and animated by Leon Searl. Includes a piano score composed and performed by Philip Carli. These short satires of contemporary life are based on Tom Powerss newspaper comics. The [...]
