Changes in Design

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LXIV, Issue 19337, 29 May 1937, Page 9

Changes in Design

TT is well known that mot or cur designers would like to ninko some drastic cluutges in tlte design of tlieir productions by uttering the positions of the important units, such as the engine, 1 >ut. have been deterred from doing so by their fear of adverse public opinion. Such considerations do not affect; them in designing public utility vehicles, such :ts motor conches and buses, and, in eonsecpienee, some interesting designs have been seen in Great I’ritairi and the U.S.A. It is important, with these vehicles that every inch of room possible should be made available for passengers and their luggage, so the tendency is to place the engine low down ill lilt! rear, or in the side of the vehicle. lit one or two coses, a tint design of engine with opposed cylinders lying horizontally lias been developed which lies in the centre of the frame beneath the floor boards. Though accessible enough, if leaves the whole of the frame length available ior passenger accomniodat ion.

These departures from the orthodox have also enabled some most, attractive streamline body designs to ,bo developed, and it is said that the new

vehicles are far more handsome than the old.