THE CLOSED CAR.
The trend of automobile design of recent years has been toward the closed model, there now being in. use more of
this kind than of open models. The problem of ventilating closed cars has been given a great deal of attention by designers, due to the fact that a few cases of death by monoxide gas poisoning have accurred because of lack of proper ventilation. Besides this, it is a well-known fact that the air within a closed car during the winter months is not as free has it might, be. A very good rear window ventilator has been invented recently in U.S.A., which consists of a metal frame mounted in the rear of automobile bodies to take the place of the fixed window glass which is ordinarily used. In this metal frame there are two plates of glass, the upper one being supported by a metal flange which extends across the top and sides, and the lower one being supported by metal flanges on each side. These two are adjustable very much in the same manner as are ordinary windscreens. Adjustment is effected by means of a rod which is raised or lowered to tilt the glass plates outward or to close them.
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Manawatu Times, Volume LIV, Issue 7061, 8 November 1929, Page 12
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207THE CLOSED CAR. Manawatu Times, Volume LIV, Issue 7061, 8 November 1929, Page 12
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