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...Automobile is longer, roomier, sleeker, faster and, with a few exceptions, it is more expensive (5% to 10% above last year). Nearly every model has felt the hand of the aerodynamics engineer. The mechanical benefits of streamlining-higher speed (against reduced air resistance) at less cost-have led every motormaker directly to the practical problem of increased riding comfort. The new streamlined car had to offer smoother transportation at 70 m.p.h. than the old high-bodied model did at 50 m.p.h. This necessity resulted in the major mechanical innovation of the year-independent front wheel suspension. Heretofore front springs...
Prices of popular British cars average ?10 ($45) higher at the Show this year than last, with roomier bodies and self-changing gears as the excuse for upping. Still supreme was the stately Daimler, picked as the King-Emperor's personal equipage by Edward VII and used exclusively by George V. Ready for the road a Daimler "Double-Six" weighs over three tons, costs over $8,500, represents the supreme peacetime achievement of its militant makers the B. S. A. (Birmingham Small Arms) munitions trust (Lee-Enfield rifles) who also make popular priced cars called simply...
...Buicks, longer and roomier, showed what .has been done since last May by the new manufacturing chief, I. J. Reuter, once with Opel. An automatic clutch and Startex (starter automatic with ignition switch) are standard equipment. Large doors opening flush with the running board add to the low appearance...
Many new features are incorporated in both lines. All cars will all be equipped with shutter-proof glass, rear gas tanks, automatic shock-absorbers, silent transmissions, and roomier bodies...
...Morton has two rooms and a kitchen in a converted hotel which are roomier and cheaper than the former quarters of the family in Liverpool. Food costs less than in England, school and doctors cost about the same, and clothes she buys through a 'cooperative' at not much above the English prices...