BETTER AND CHEAPER AUTOMOBILES
Post-War Prediction
Better and cheaper auto vehicles will revolutionise highway transportation after the war, William J. Cumming, vehicle maintenance director of the Office of Defence Transportation, predicted in an address to the Society of Automotive Engineers in New York rerently.
Tire forced lessons of wartime maintenance of motor vehicles will result in postwar machines designed primarily for efficient function, rather than smart appearance, Mr Cumming said. “A new technology will have been born to parallel that of the metallurgists, designers and production men,” he said. Future automobiles and trucks will be safer, easier to drive and maintain more comfortable and upkeep cost less, Mr Cumming predicted. He added that tyres would be improved and betterfuel produced. P. E. Friend of the Wilkening Manufacturing Co., Philadelphia, told the engineers that new expander type piston rings had been developed which would double the operating life of vehicular engines and halve oil consumption.
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Timaru Herald, Volume CLIII, Issue 22478, 13 January 1943, Page 3
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154BETTER AND CHEAPER AUTOMOBILES Timaru Herald, Volume CLIII, Issue 22478, 13 January 1943, Page 3
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