SAFER AND BETTER

Evening Post, Volume CXXVI, Issue 156, 30 December 1938, Page 14

SAFER AND BETTER

CHEAPER TO RUIN

THE PRIVATE CAR OF TODAY

Many of tho most significant changes made in the design of motor-cars may be traced to traffic requirements; engineers are constantly studying the problem of increased flexibility and I owe* operating costs. By tar the greater number ot driving miles covered by motor vehicles are through.the traffic-ourdened streets and highways in and about great population centres, and the average rate if speed at which the vehicles are driven has been constantly upward, with the number oi vehicles themselves steadily mounting also. The redesigning of streets to meet the position has proved quite impracticable, and so in the main the motor industry has had to meet the situation itself and provide vehicles suitable to it So far as cars are concerned the need is for something easy to park, flexible to handle, and equipped with devices necess ry to safe driving Wonderful flexibility has been achieved in the engine, despite the trend away from larger units expensive to operate The power unit now is compact requiring nothing like th<? space once necessary in front to accomn.odate it besides which is the fact that ii is mounted well torward and that the driving compartment has been cleared of a mass of gear once neces