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HAVE YOU PAID YOUR DUES ??? John O’Halloran Dedicated to Preserving the Great Cars Built by Hudson OFFICIAL PUBLICATION OF THE HUDSON ESSEX TERRAPLANE CLUB, INC., CHICAGO-MILWAUKEE CHAPTER. Volume 40, Issue 1 January 2011 Story by: HAVE YOU PAID YOUR DUES ??? John O’Halloran HEY !!! That’s not a Hudson !!! Cover Picture: Terry Johannes and his 35 at the 2010 Central Regional Meet. That’s Rick Nell in the passenger Seat. INSIDE THIS ISSUE: Smoke on the Hudson, Page: 7 ICAG H O From the Editor, Page: 1 Member Submissions, Page: 7 - 8 C Rollin’ Down the River, Page: 1 - 3 Hudson Fun Facts, Page: 8 M E I Two Weeks’ Punishment, Page: 4 2011 Central Regional Info, Page: 9 L E W Hudson Terraplane, Page: 5 - 7 For Sale and Chapter Information, Page: 10 A U K Responding for the second time to a call of "man FROM THE EDITOR trapped in car in river", emergency workers treated Well, it’s January and things are a little on the slow this as a bit of a headache. Covered by Wichita side for Chicago-Milwaukee chapter. We have a Eagle reporter Jerry Abejo and forwarded to us by fairly big break between John Otto’s Tech Session Eagle automotive editor Mike Berry, the story meet and the next meet in April. If you’re anything mentions Wichita resident Moses as admitting to like me, you’re hiding inside where it’s warm and having launched his German-built Amphicar "...at dreaming of things to come this summer – first and least twenty-five time previously" in the silty brown foremost – warmer weather. Arkansas River. Cheri sent out an email notice recently covering the Listed as one of the two hundred runable survivors; issue of dues. Here is an excerpt from Cheri’s email; of the 3,878 built, Moses' Fjord Green convertible is registered as both boat and automobile. Capable of Cheri: 70 mph on land, the twin screws are capable of propelling the little car through the water at 7 knots. I've just spoken with our Treasurer, Doug Novak and as of today only 51 of you have paid your Novel by today's standards, Moses' Amphicar is by 2011 dues--that is less than half our no means the first car either built as an amphibian or membership!! We plan to include a membership with a propeller, or with a river in mind. In a July roster in the March Hud-Nut News. If you want to 1912 periodical, a single seat, bodiless automobile be included in that roster, from the French firm Charron was shown wading YOU NEED TO GET YOUR $15 TO DOUG NOW!! through a low spot of the Seine River. The magneto, wires and carburetor were tightly covered and We don't want to lose any of you! sealed, the intake and exhaust equipped with snorkel Cheri pipes. The builder described it as a car for 'the colonies', but failed to explain that water over the driver's head might pose a problem. In this issue you will find something a little different, something not quite Hudson related. I can just hear it know – NOT HUDSON RELATED !!!!, Well, John O’Halloran submitted this article several months back. I wanted to put it in an issue of the Hud-Nut News were it could be the main article. John really writes some great stories and this one is no exception. John’s article also touches on aviation (my favorite subject) so I took the opportunity to add some pictures to his piece. I hope you enjoy it. That’s all for now, Dave Miller Rollin' Down the River This 1960 photo of the prototype Amphicar exiting a river in Germany where the car was constructed By: John O’Halloran Searching for an American sales outlet; the Amphicar Company approached the Willys Motors WHILE POLICE, FIRE and rescue crews stood on Product Development division in June that year. the shore, the lights on their emergency vehicles Fearing the expensive car would not be a good fit flashing, Scott Moses slowly drove his 1964 with their products, the Willys sales force declined Amphicar up the boat ramp in downtown Wichita, the invitation. 1 THE HUD-NUT NEWS: January 2011 Ten years later, famed front drive race car designer twenty seconds, registering just under a mile minute. Walter Christie covered this problem when he presented a six wheel amphibious tank for U.S. Army Citing the above effort, Chicago automobilist B. testing. Powered by a transversely mounted 665 Harrison Howe proposed to the editors of a March cubic inch four cylinder gasoline engine, the tank 1912 automobile trade journal what he considered could be driven as a six wheel truck for road use, or the 'ideal car for 1913'. "The construction of such car fitted with crawler tracks for off road use. In the should be of extreme lightness and strength. Wire water, Christie's tank utilized twin 26" diameter wheels with an aluminum body are used in the propellers. Tested at the Dyckman Street ferry n the construction as far as possible." Harrison Howe Hudson River, the tank was able to climb a 40 illustrated his remarks with a plan showing a degree slope. torpedo-shaped body, four wheels on half elliptical springs. "...It would be extremely dangerous to take Preceding the Christie tank by six years was another curves at high speed on account of skidding," the interesting project for the U.S. Army, conducted by writer thoughtfully opines, "I have helped to eliminate engineers from the Packard Motor Company in this by placing a vertical fin in the rear to keep it in a Detroit. Mounted on the flatbed of a Packard five- ton straight course." Had he added a second vertical fin, truck, a Packard Liberty V12 aircraft engine swinging maybe Howe could have sold the idea to Cadillac. a wooden stub propeller was fired up and pushed the truck around an icy, frozen path at the test grounds. A Clair Vance of Logansport, Indiana built another 'Wind Wagon' five years after the Baumhofer-Jeffries In a trick learned from our friends at Rolls-Royce, example, in 1915. Photographed with Vance at the this particular Packard Liberty engine had NO wheel, he exclaimed the car to have an Eighty inch gaskets. All mating surfaces were lapped by hand for wheelbase, 36-inch tread, modeled along the lines of greater "Simplicity of assembly". Had the experiment the then-stylish cycle car. With a motorcycle engine proven a success, wings could have been mounted pushing a diminutive 40" prop at the rear, designer to the truck, an ample supply of provisions secured Vance stated twenty-five miles per hour could be to the flatbed, and the unit flown across the Atlantic attained with " ...very quick getaway." to provide both trucks and spare aircraft engines for our AEF force’s. NOT to be confused with the above efforts, one much earlier 'Wind Wagon' was pioneered by ex- No less successful than the Liberty-powered truck seafaring captain Edward T. Smith (perhaps related and also sharing the flight characteristics of a Dodo to the previously introduced Guy L. Smith?) who was a propellered Essex Four parade car, built by departed his berth on the briny to sail the rolling Omaha resident Guy L. Smith along the lines of an waves of golden grain on the south central plains of Army single engine bomber airplane. NOT intended Arkansas. E.T. Smiths' early wagon, of a kind usually to intentionally leave the ground, Smith's Essex harnessed to four legged power, hoisted sail-on- biplane drew a huge crowd whenever it was 'flown'. mast to draw the frequent Kansas gale. Not in the Smith may have gotten the idea from a propeller-less least bit successful, Captain Smiths' pioneering Apperson model, the 'Roadaplane', available in 1917 attempts are commemorated each year in downtown fob Kokomo at $1750 for the six cylinder model, and Wichita during River Festival. $2,OOO for the eight. As functionally ill-favored as our Captain Smith's Likely a bit faster than the Christie tank, though endeavor was a 1916 offering from the Robbins & slower than a Liberty-engined Packard truck, an Meyers Company of Springfield, Ohio. This Overland powered 'Wind Wagon' driven by Carl establishment presented a spinning radiator Baumhofer and Cleve Jeffries raced in a ornament; the base covered with a glossy black demonstration at the Indianapolis Speedway during enamel finish, the four blades available in nickel or the summer of 1910. A wooden propeller with and polished brass. The $1.50 add-on was touted to spin eight foot 'bite' pushed the light-weight roadster rapidly even at slow speeds, with rotation increasing around a five mile course in just five minutes and quickly upon acceleration. Had our friends at THE HUD-NUT NEWS: January 2011 2 Robbins & Meyers invested forethought to hitching may recall frequent their windmill to a generator, they might today have articles on the an asterisk in the book of Great American Green subject. Molt Taylor, Inventors. Too bad! of Longview Washington built Occupying the other end of the automobile-propeller probably the most, spectrum was pioneer aviator, stunt pilot, aircraft with a series of post- builder Waldo Dean Waterman. An (early friend of Aerocar - Photo by Dave Miller war 'Aerocars'. Glenn Curtiss while Curtiss was building his Roadable, Roadplane, and Convaircar are three eponymously-named float planes in San Diego, other propellered flying automobiles from the post- Waterman earned his wings while still a teen. war era. Perhaps the most infamous flying Through his friendship with Curtiss, Waterman met automobile was the 'Aircar' from California, based on and befriended Detroit auto maker Roy Chapin and the Ford Pinto (what his lovely bride, Inez, and later approached the WERE they couple with plans for a flying automobile.
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