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Grey River Argus, 3 February 1917, Page 5

«t™t h ° U * h h \ s n °w' clear that -the tank is purely a British invention it is interesting to note that a. San Francisco paper published on May 17 .008 contained a full-pase illustraN ed article descriptive of "the aifto that lumps fences and other strange phases of motoring- passion." The wrfir says: "Here's the last cry of the 2 t^ century— the fox-hunting auto It will rise in the air. take a fence or <a ditch, a brook, or a hurdle with the same ease that ''it skims along the highway or whisks over the country^ roads. Much has been done for thl automobile within the year. The hurdler isn't the only one. There is the traction automobile that goes ahead without roads, up hill and down date through- sand and mud. over brooks and swamps, just as if roads had been builtfor it. Then there is the new machine planned by Henry Farrrian the maji whp^von the Deutsch prize the other day in Paris for- his flying mach ]" c - He puts wina-s to his aiito— * he will fly over the ground. R'eallv nobody can guess where the 20th century automobile will stop. There seems f o be no limit to what men will do '