ULTRA-MODERN CAR.
Designers all over the world are experimenting with features which they consider to be desirable. These include independent springing, already adopted by some British manufacturers for the front wheels and by certain Continental firms on all four wheels; rear engines, again something which is not entirely new; air cooling, a type of engine from which the Franklin Company has never departed; distortionless frames, a problem tackled by most designers by stiffening existing designs; streamlining, a question which has been left mainly toi the body designer; passenger load within the wheel centres. All these things have been done, but very few designs incorporate all of these ideals.
A manufacturer to be instanced as having steadily pursued a policy of building cars entirely different in such important matters as frame construction, suspension, and body outline, is Tatra, a Czecho-Slovakian firm with works at Prague. The latest model from these works does embody all the points enumerated.
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Ellesmere Guardian, Volume LVI, Issue 40, 21 May 1935, Page 2
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