WHISTLE STARTS CAR

Sun (Auckland), Volume III, Issue 744, 17 August 1929, Page 30

WHISTLE STARTS CAR

VIBRATION SECRET USED BY BIRD MAN ULTRA-HIGH NOTES In the old days, Charles Kellogg, famous Western entertainer, used to start his vehicle by clucking at the horses. In these motorised days Mr. Kellogg starts his new motor-car by whistling at it! He whistles when he wants the refrigerator plant in his car to get cold, and he whistles when he wants his electric stove to get hot, writes a Californian correspondent. There is no need for a lock on Mr. Kellogg's car, because nobody can imitate his peculiar high notes. Mr. Kellogg is widely known as a bird man and naturalist, and has made entertainment appearances throughout the United States and Canada. During his experiments in bird imitation, he developed certain ultra-high bird notes. The vibration of one of these notes is capable of extinguishing a candle flame in the same room. To prove it is not trickery, Mr. Kellogg has whistled this peculiar toue into a microphone, extinguishing the flame of a candle placed in front of a small loud-speaker! Mr. Kellogg has just recovered from a long illness that nearly cost his life. For further recreation, the bird man plans a motor-car tour of the world. The motor-car, built to order, costs £2.000, and includes complete living quarters, a laboratory for his experiments and a comprehensive system of storage batteries and generating plants that provide for electrical operation of interior lights, cooking apparatus and refrigerator. Special mechanism has been installed in each piece of electrical apparatus so that it will react to the vibration of a particular note whistled by Mr. Kellogg.