Tops and Covers and Canopies.

Progress, Volume II, Issue 5, 1 March 1907, Page 174

Tops and Covers and Canopies.

Ohio, makes a speciality of tops of which they have many varieties Of these perhaps the best is the top covered with rubber duck and lined. Sometimes they use 3-ply whipcord in gray or khaki colours or imitation leather, with of couise adjustable hood Ihere is a vast variety of fionts, of which the pick is the metal plate glass folding fiont, or wind shield it is run very close, however, by the patent adjustable front. In the matter oi covers, leather looks splendid, and for that reason many prefer it But in frost} weather leather may not be folded under penalty of cracking, a consummation every owner aura's s deques to escape, if he can possibly manage it Imitation leather is even worse

In the besrmmncf the motor was made foi the rain to fall on the just and the unjust alike, tot

the winds to blow un tempered on the shorn lamblike chauffeur, for the fiosts and heats to work their wicked wills on the unpiotected tourist These neglected beings first began by devising costumes, and for awhile they swaggered m them attracting the attention of the übiquitous photographer, and the comic aitist Enveloped in the motor dress everybody looked like everybody else This proved unpleasing to the ladies This is perhaps the reason why the motor makers took to devising protection shields, and coveis, and canopies No one can imagine why the obvious necessity was so long ignored any more than any one can deny that when the remedies came they found a grateful world Nevertheless, when they did come they had to submit to developments before they could be allowed to stay Th° main difficulty was to find a bow socket strong enough for the work. Hoods were often collapsing on the road, therefore, and it was a rare thing to see them fold up in the manner which delights the eye tiained to neatness In this respect Colonel Spiague of the famous factory made himself a public benefactor at an eaily stage of the march of progress, by overcoming the main difficulty He did so by the use of a strong drop steel foiging welded to a large heavy double or laminated steel tube It is the bend which under this system is made of the forged steel This obviates the bending and fracturing of the steel socket, for when you bend a steel bow you crj stal Use the steel and that is why the common carnage bow is always liable to break on the slightest strain Moreover, in the new laminated double steel bows the wood extends to the bottom of the bow thus giving two thicknesses of steel in combination with a regular solid ash bow Result, the tops alwa\s fold neatly back as they ought to, and keep place The same firm Sprague Umbrella Company of