"ROSE BY ANY OTHER NAME"

NZ Truth, Issue 1080, 12 August 1926, Page 16

"ROSE BY ANY OTHER NAME"

Merry Mix-Up In Motor-car Names

THere are so many different t^pes of bodies for cars on the market at the present time that it jwill, soon be absolutely necessary that some standard- nanies i be adopted ..'for them. V.

'THE most unfortunate name is ■,1 "pleasura car," because it gives a '.", totally wrong impression of the use of the motor-car by 'the ordinary j owner. - : - . ■. ', ■ , • There can be ho doiibt in' the mind ot, those of us who come into constant touch with motorists that the; ; great majority of cars are. used,. ; to some extent at least, to assist' hi the business activities of their owners; 'so that the term "pleasure cars" doe's. not' : give anything like a correct idea- of; their XJsefulness. ..-■ . • .'!,■ ::''\.\'.-y .' : ; -r ■;:■■. $,',' Yet there ,}s?:noVi?theh. nam©^,: j which will^desc'ribe '.thi^'';so.rt of' 'car.--/ ' we meani ! '•■'Touring caW':Cuts. put the -saloon and all other form's of closed car, as well as the twoseater. "Passenger car", includes the char-a : bancs and the- ta>ci. Will somebody give us ;g-- Teal name for the kind of car we mean^- the, sort of car which the ordinary motorist uses for business and pleasure ?••,?, ; .$. . ; ■ Bodies :^^-: 1 : But when we 1 come to 'the/name of the different types of bodies, ;' we are faced with so many names, that it would almost be possible to write^ -i special dictionary of coachwprk-harnes. "Phaeton,v. f or , instaiice, }s' the .fashionable J - ; jvanie -. : ':'f or ■ . a, fiy^seater open tourer,; ■flfm^-a l re--hbw I.'-caH-'.1 .'-caH-'. ing both five and seven-seaters^ phaetons, but the m,ain ideavS,eems A to be to ■ distinguish the, • phaeton : from the larger ear. . • ■ • '. . . . . <j;he name "Brougham" which is how used by several firms, notably Hudson, to signify a five-seater, four-door, saioon, was originally applied to a "type, of car which is nptho>y often seen."; This is the car' like iy : saloon, \l>ut with no protection, oyei- the drivers scat. •:.'.• ' : -:' ":' '• : ' : -_ T-. : - . ' "■.• In NeW Zealand we do hot often blossom forth into chauffeur-driven cars, and when we do it is , not likely that we shall- expect them to sit "out m the', cold," so that the

old form of the brouhgam is Knot likely to trouble us. The mix up. between- the * ; new brougham an,d the : coach,' however, does come within our sphere. , , j,. The "coach" as. it was originally introduced upon this maricet,. ; was a five-sc-ater, closed car with only, two floors, the seatsj folding over to allow, access to the rear seats. . ...-' . / Quite^L large number of makers 1 now call this ' model a' brougham, which gives rise' to a certain -a'mouht of .-confusion.- especially ..when talking about comparisons m pricca;; v ■ '^ Any garage, after pyerhnuUng, say, an American, an. ISnglish and' a Gont'inental car m succession,. Svill be.able to dihite at great .length upon the need for an .Institution of Ihternationai Standards,, m regard to such matters as bolts and nuts, tyre valves; and- so on. . • ;; : ; ■;■•'" '.-'".. ■. . ..■■'■ ''•. ■ '. .;■-*■ If we should eyeK get ■ sufch^ a' valuable institution, r it 4 would riot > bo wasting its time by putting on the list a standard name for automobile'bodywork. -■ ■; ..>■ ■' ■ •