a aeries In of the of English patents. Intended mark the history automobile. taring. It provided for “the com- COLD HELP TO CARS nearest for application to horse-drawn ve- It constitute* the approach bination with an engine of an electrlo List of Exhibitors and in the nineteenth cen- to a patent on the automobile as a motor with hicles, early circuit connection* for « Spaces Remedied U. S. ROAD FUNDS GAS TAX AVERAGE Cultch Brag la by tury. whole. starting said engine; of means for the brief of the Weather Conditions, Is Report. Faced Many Difficulties. Throughout history coupling the engine and starting de- at Automobile Show automobile ideas have been The middle of the nineteenth cen- Industry vice together; an operating member Assigned Believe It or not. cold weather is a as the need for them arose for tury found America and Europe hun- patented controlling said coupling means; to cars from clutch help suffering for keen with the developing market for cars, electrically operated means for con- at the Seven- 1GJSC PER GALLON gry power and speed. Many with and spaces designated, drag. The drop In temperature has the in and List of exhibitors, products minds in England, France, Austria, improvements highways necting and disconnecting the said op- the effect of drawing the plates away fuels, the demands for greater com- erating member and said teenth Annual Automobile Show, now being held this entire week at Calvert Germany and the United States were coupling from each other and of contracting and It still and playing with the idea of an automo- fort, simplicity security. means; electrical connections be- 2701 Calvert street, opposite the Shoreham Hotel: World Cost to Consumer their facings. If the gears have been a recent for ex- Federal Tax Paid Here Is Hall, tive vehicle. The most obvious line is rather memory, tween said electrically operated means a little hard to get into during the _ _ when a tire de- and said electric ft V la V .f.oall. of thought was toward an improve- ample, puncture motor for giving said i tnrvroiri the chances are that this 36.6c—Price in U. S. Summer, manded a hard, dirty, time-consum- motor a slow initial starting move- Cited as Reason for David 8. Inc. ment of the steam engine so that it Addison Chevrolet Sales, Inc. Hendrick, will be less noticeable In Winter. But much so that it took much ment.” might be adapted to propelling a car- ing Job—so Barry Pate Motor Co. Williams Sc Baker, Inc. cold weather Is not a cure for this The Reported Lowest. of the pleasure out of motoring. The name of Inclusion. Inc. riage on ordinary roads. There were Henry Ford first ap- Donohoe Chevrolet, trouble. Have the clutch attended to basic patent on the demountable rim, 11 Chrysler world's retail of major difficulties in the way, the pears in the Patent Office records In Lustine Nicholson Motor Co. The average price at the first opportunity. which has made this nuisance a thing BY THOMAS J. KEEFE. Motor Co. greatest of which was that of weight. 1898. when he was awarded a patent Sales Co. Bell-Wirgman 20 cents a but of the was in 1913 to General Manager American Motorist*’ Mandell Chevrolet gasoline is only gallon, Roads could not stand under the past, granted for a “carburetor,” and in 1901 he Association. Coast-In-Auto Sales, Inc. up Ourisman Chevrolet Sales Co., Inc. of Louis H. Perlman of New York. District Motor Co., Inc. the consumer must pay an average weight of steam locomotives. obtained a patent on a “motor car- After extensive examination of the Owens Motor Co., Inc. Oardner-Stuart Motors, Inc. 16.6 cents In taxes and In the early days of motoring a riage,” dealing chiefly with the axles. Stohlman Chevrolet Sales Co. per gallon Auto Show It was obvious that the successful the Keystone Automobile Club Inc. driver took his life in his hands when These subject Sales Co. Hicks-Paul, tariffs, making the total average cost automobile must have a lighter power basic patents, of course, pro- Sullivan Chevrolet he ventured on or streets. of which is an. affiliate H. B. Leary, Jr., Sc Bros. As as icy muddy vide only the bare skeleton of Washington, 36.6 cents, according to a survey made system. early 1865, according the (Continued From First Page ! Without the tire chain, use of the of the American Motorists’ Association 1 Dodge Skinker Motor Co. to recent findings, Slgfrled Marcus, an present-day motor car. The patents by the United States Department of automobile in Winter in the North Adams Brooks, Inc. Smoot Motor Co. Austrian inventor, drove a carriage in body design alone run into the and a large portion of the would be largely The basic represents Motor Co. Tom’s Auto Service. the Interior. ing their old files for the original a benrine In Impossible. thousands. every of owners Duke & Otey propelled by engine Practically part public-minded motor vehicle on the motor car and patent on “armor for pneumatic the 1937 Kaplan & Crawford, Inc. On the basis of these figures, a "basic patents” Vienna. In 1879 Gottlieb Daimler of automobile represent* the of the District of Columbia, is per- with those on tires’’ was granted to Harry Parsons Leo Inc. 12 Sc 13 Lincoln—Lincoln Zephyr. made the American Petro- its accessories, together Germany ran the first successful sifting and culmination of scores of for Rocca, study by of London in 1903. as the suaded there is full justification some of their most notable Simple ideas. The Trew Motor Co. Anacostia Motor Co. luem Institute's Department of Statis- improve- gasoline-propelled vehicle. But little , the inclusion of the District in future idea seems, it was by no means ob- Capitol Motors, Inc. tics and published in the institute’s ments. Dr nothing was known of such de- Often one hears the naive question; Federal aid highway legislation. vious and noted engineers had puz- t Plymouth Chemer Motor Co. October Quarterly, reveals the re- Some of the most notable ideas in- velopments In the United States. The Who invented the automobile? One zled over the problem without reach- By reason of the Federal tax on au- Adams Brooks, Inc. Handley Motor Co., Inc. influence exerted upon ex- corporated in the modern car, of American Inventors pondered inde- might as well ask; Who In- straining ing a solution. almost tomobiles, gasoline, tires, tubes, lubri- Bell-Wirgman Motor Co. Hill Sc Tibbitts, Inc. tension of the use of motor vehicles, course, antedate the automobile Itself. pendently over the problem and out vented houses? oils, accessories, etc.. District Coast-In-Auto Inc. Motor Co. were derived from Df their fertile brains were born some The basic patent on sliding gear cating Sales, Logan highway development, and individual Essential principles In the final sifting perhaps the best fantastic Such was the transmission, one of the truly original motorists paid into the Federal Treas- District Motor Co., Inc. Nolan Motor Co. and national welfare by high taxes the bicycle, which, during the last ideas. pro- claim rests with Uncle Ideas In the Sam—that is, ury $2,117,544 for the fiscal year ended Duke & Otey Motor Co. Northeast Motor Co., Inc. tariffs on motor fuel. two decades of the nineteenth posal of one F. H. C. Mey of Buffalo, incorporated automobile, and century, the mass mind of the American peo- Inc. almost the status of the who on is one Issued on September 11, 1900, June 30, 1936. Evans-Palmer, Inc. Parkway Motor Co., The indicates that those con- occupied auto- N. Y., September 17, 1870, ob- study to Leonard ple—although it must be admitted Motor Inc. mobile of today for pleasure riding. tained a patent on a two-dog-power H. Dyer of Washington, The actual receipts to the Treasury Gardner-Stuart Motors, Inc. Steuart Co., tinents having, as a whole, the highest that even he adapted some of the the for the three- D. C. It specified “in an automobile Hicks-Paul, Inc. Triangle Motor Co. low- Ideas for making bicycling more com- velocipede,” power most fundamental from from the 1-cent-per-gallon-of-gasoline standards of living, also have the the wheels there- principles Warfield Motor Co. fortable could be applied to make wheeled vehicle being provided by vehicle, supporting tax in the District for the fiscal year H. B. Leary, Jr., & Bro6. est gasoline prices and total costs. abroad. more comfortable. At one two in a treadmill. for, a countershaft connected there- walking —■ motoring dogs -- ended June were Kaplan & Crawford, Inc. North America has the lowest average — 30, 1936, $1,178,934. with and two or more fast Inc. Cadillac—La Salle time the examination of bicycle carrying The Federal excise taxes for the same Leo Rocca, 14 cost per gallon, 21 cents, which in- pat- Nine years later a remarkable ap- ents was one of the of the pulleys thereon, a driving engine elas- Ran Auto Co. Capitol Cadillac Co. and In South big jobs plication was filed by George B. Selden Gunpowder Engine. fiscal year of 1936 amounted to $938,- Mid-City cludes taxes tariffs. said Patent Office; automobile patents were tically supported upon wheels, Gunpowder was one of the 610. Nick Bombard, Inc. America the average is 22.5 cents; in Df Rochester, N. Y. Six years later earliest a of the exam- the driving shaft of said motor carry- fuels Rosen Motor Co. 15 Oldsmobile 29.3 in 42 merely subsidiary Job It was granted. used for propelling the Internal Oceania, cents, Europe, two or more fast or The Bureau of Public Roads, United Co. iners in this section. ing pulleys, two combustion A Semmes Sales, Inc. Capitol Cadillac cents; in Asia, 44.3 cents, and in Af- Selden's was broad. It engine. patent cover- States of re- patent very more endless slack belts connecting Department Agriculture, Lustine Nicholson Motor Co. For consider one of the ing the use of such fuel for this Skinker Motor Co. rica, 46.5 cents. example, was, in brief, the combination of a pur- ports that the District has 73 miles of the pulleys to the two shafts, a single Smoot Motor Co. Pohanka Service newest auto improvements—knee-ac- pose was granted to George Medhurst The In the United States the average "liquid hydro-carbon engine of the means for Federal aid highway routes. L. P. Steuart, Inc, tion wheel mounting. the independent jockey pulley, in 1800 at London. Tom’s Auto Service. on was Probably compression type" with a of these connect with or lead price of gasoline April 10, 1936, carriage. engaging the said jockey pulley with majority Wisconsin Motors, me. basic American 1s one for a The Trew Motor Co. found be 13 8 cents patent It covered the basic of the to Federal and State routes of Mary- to per gallon, plus concept any of the said belts and a body 16 Pierce-Arrow "spring-axle for vehicles,” granted to automobile. The weakness an average of 5.4 cents for taxes. Gas- lay in the elastically supported upon said wheels land and Virginia. The District occu- ( De Soto Lee D. Butler, Inc. James and John McTurk of Crystal, oline costs elsewhere ranged as high fact that the inventor was quite independently of the motor." pies an area serving as the main Evans-Palmer, Inc. Iowa, in 1897. It contains a clear as $1.19 per gallon in Italy, a war- vague in his specifications for his connecting link between the Northern Auto Co. Studebaker statement of the knee-action Invention of Self-Starter. o Mid-City 17 time charge; 90 cents in Ethiopia; 77.5 principle, ‘liquid hydro-carbon engine,” stating and Southern States. It has approxi- Nick Bombard. Inc. Alber Sc McNeil. Inc. but was intended for horse-drawn Probably nothing has added more cents in Turkey' 59.3 cents in Nether- naively that "any form may be em- | to the mately 1,200 miles of opened and Motor Co. D. Inc. vehicles. As as 1883 a practicability and comfort of Rosen Lee Butler, lands 56 cents in Germany; long ago patent ployed in my improved road-locomo- NEW LOCATION i addition India; motoring than the self-starter. Twen- traveled thoroughfares. In Semmes Sales, Inc. Norris, Inc. on a somewhat similar principle was tive.” l and 52.4 cents in France. for thereto about 400 miles of streets and 18 & i9 Hudson—Terraplane granted in England to William John ty years ago cranking, especially 5019 individual welfare are Left to Others. i) Conn Ave. o highways remain to be opened. 5 Motorola Motor Sales, Inc. National and Brewer. Glory an amateur in cold weather, was little Columbia /) We are ditcontinuinc Packards f) Simon Co. definitely reflected in automobile own- Upon this basic patent might well short of torture and tor- The District is the only political sub- Distributing Fleming Motor Corp. The first American ill-requited V on Jtth St. V reveals. Standards patent for a have been raised the whole structure w'ithin Sales ership, the survey ture at that. Unless this difficulty PRY division the continental United Hudson Sc Terraplane Corp. demountable wheel was granted in 0 MOTOR CAR CO. States not in the S Packard of living are indicated by per capita >f the American automotive industry. had been overcome, It would have 0 participating appor- New York Avenue Motor Co. 1877 to Charles Packard Motor Car Co. of motor owner- W. Helden of Flor- Selden tionment of funds to be Washington Sales, Inc. ownership vehicles, very likely could have built a constituted a definite setback for the highway Potomac Motor ence, Ala. It was Intended for ap- ship of proximity to sources of crude workable road carriage according to motor car. Many minds puzzled over matched as provided for under the Rice Motor Co. to 1 Pontiac taxes. Tar- plication horse-drawn vehicles, but his own if he had tried, the Sales, Inc. petroleum, and gasoline specifications, problem, but the basic patent— permanent legislation of the Federal Pontiac Co. Washington Motor was an Important factor In Arcade iffs are more important factors in gas- making rhe fact remains that he did not. one of the most important in the de- Government. On the other hand, we 20 Covered Wagon Trailers the automobile Flood Motor Co. oline prices than total volume of mo- practicable. ind left to others the glory of actual velopment of the automobile—was for find that two political subdivisions W. S. Domer Co. o Prei< L. P. Steuart, Inc. tor vehicles in operation in a coun- The basic ideas for the steering iccomplishment. Nevertheless the an “engine starting device" awarded 0 without the continental United States U«ed Car*, 1527 14th St. f try importing gasoline. wheel and its attachments go back to Selden patent is an land- on August 17, 1915, to Charles F. Ket- 0 are participating in these funds—the 5 Buirk 21 Electrical Refrigeration & Oil important Territory of Hawaii and the island of Emerson & Orme. Burners Puerto Rico. Stanley H. Horner, Inc. National Electrical Supply Co. 22 Radio Broadcasting } Ford Two-Wheel Brakes Approved. Anacostia Motor Co. 23 Automotive Equipment Contrary to general opinion, two- Capitol Motors, Inc. Standard Automotive Supply Co. Wheel brakes are not barred by States Cherner Motor Co. requiring periodic inspection of motor Handley Motor Co., Inc. 24 Silent May Oil Burners Vehicles. So long as these brakes are Hill & Tibbitts, Inc. Columbia Specialty Co., Inc. capable of bringing the car to a halt Logan Motor Co. Within the required distance, and are Nolan Motor Co. 25 Batteries & Automotive equalized, they will pass muster. All Northeast Motor Co.. Inc. Equipment the regulations, however, require that Parkway Motor Co., Inc. L. S. Julian, Inc. M cars Steuart Motor Co. 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