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Last week when the Italian troops at length arrived they were equipped with three squadrons of motor cars, bearing machine guns and 350 supply cars carrying rations and sufficient water for a month's campaign, since it was feared that the Senussites would poison their own wells rather than submit...
...sprawled upon the road. The other horses snorted, plunged, backed, tangled up the harness. Aghast at the possible consequences to their aged master, the other postilions quieted the horses as soon as possible, rushed to assist the white-haired Victorian statesman from his carriage, bundled him safely into a motor, sighed with relief at the news that he seemed "none the worse for being badly shaken...
Among vanishing Sunday morning pastimes is that of "working on the car." No blue law, but increasing familiarity with cars and extension of garage service, have brought the motor owner out from beneath his crankcase to stand and watch or sit at home waiting while a garage man fills the grease cups, tightens nuts, adjusts brakes, oils squeaks...
Working with the bankers of National Garages, Inc. are Roy D. Chapin and Howard E. Coffin of the Hudson Motor Co., Alvan Macauley of Packard and W. Ledyard Mitchell of the Chrysler corporation. They realize that better garages, like the good roads for which Mr. Chapin has long fought, encourage Mr. Consumer to buy an automobile...
...last week by Henry J. Fuller, Chairman, of the Board and President of Rolls-Royce of America, Inc., the concern will go out for a greater share of the U. S. high-priced-car market. On Jan. 1 it acquired Brewster & Co., famed Long Island City makers of fine motor bodies, which gives the combined firms a payroll of 1,600 employes. These will expand to 5,000 or 6,000 in 1926, President Fuller confidently expects...