MODERN INSTRUMENT PANELS
Once upon a time a novel design for a radiator provided the sole inspiration for a new car. To-day the instrument panel is the motif, having designed which, building the car round it is, of course, quite a simple matter (states the ‘Motor’). The importance of the instrument panel is shaking the industry to its foundations. Somebody discovered that to mount the instrumens in a row was utterly out of keeping with modern motoring. With the aid of compasses, set squares, and artist’s celluloid curves, a complicated geometrical pattern was evolved in which the dials overlapped and some were squeezed into odd corners, and people wrote columns of praise about such ingenuity. That started a fashion which threatens to drive managers of service depots into an early grave. For you see, if your oil gets mixed up with the petrol supply, or the water thermometer registers in amps, you cannot take out just one instrument to rectify it, but have to dismantle the lot. And so prolonged board meetings are being held to discover the lost art of mounting them separately once more. Which they have been doing in America for the past 12 months.
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Evening Star, Issue 22461, 5 October 1936, Page 13
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198MODERN INSTRUMENT PANELS Evening Star, Issue 22461, 5 October 1936, Page 13
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