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Double-Decker Transportation Route: Running a Highway atop the Transcontinental Railroad

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 [...]

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Uncanny Invention Startles Motorists, Protects Your Car From Thieves & Puzzles Your Friends!

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 [...]

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Packard “Eighteen” 1909 – The Town Car

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 [...]