CAME FROM THE ARTIST
Streamlining in motor-cars was the artist's idea—not the engineer's. It began with the search for more graceful lines, not with the intent to save power. Air resistance didn't mean much when cars were driven at a top speed of around forty-five miles an hour, but at the high speeds prevalent today streamlining is "first aid" to the motor. In the conventional motorcar running at seventy miles an hour, about half the indicated engine output is used to overcome air resistance! Streamlining is no new discovery. It was put to work long before the modern aeroplane brought it to sudden perfection. As early as forty years ago railroads in France and England fitted their locomotives with wind-cleaving devices such as conical boiler fronts and V-shaped cabs, sopie of which have survived. Scientific streamlining, however, only reached the railways within the last five years.
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Evening Post, Volume CXXVII, Issue 1, 3 January 1939, Page 3
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146CAME FROM THE ARTIST Evening Post, Volume CXXVII, Issue 1, 3 January 1939, Page 3
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