Home Page American Government Reference Desk Shopping Special Collections About Us Contribute Bluesky



Escort, Inc.


Like what we're doing? Help us do more! Tips can be left (NOT a 501c donation) via PayPal.






GM Icons
By accessing or using The Crittenden Automotive Library™/CarsAndRacingStuff.com, you signify your agreement with the Terms of Use on our Legal Information page. Our Privacy Policy is also available there.
This site is best viewed on a desktop computer with a high resolution monitor.
How Auto Manufacturers View the Trend of Car Development

Publisher: The New York Times
Page Sections: Article Index

Article Index

DateArticleDetails
27 October 1907POPULAR FAMILY CAR.
I believe that the automobile is more popular to-day than it has ever been, and is destined to become the most popular form of individual travel that it has ever been the privilege of the public to enjoy.
Commentary (text)
Publication: The New York Times
Byline: Elwood Haynes
27 October 1907COMMERCIAL CAR'S FUTURE
It needs no wise man to see that the commercial vehicle has come to stay, and to do a large portion of the business now done by horses.
Commentary (text)
Publication: The New York Times
Byline: Edward R. Hewitt
27 October 1907INDUSTRIAL STANDARDS.
The so-called popular car is rapidly resolving itself into a general type, and there is a tendency among the makers to standardize their parts.
Commentary (text)
Publication: The New York Times
Byline: E.P. Chalfant
27 October 1907TWO TYPES FOR POPULAR CAR.
Regarding the so-called popular car resolving itself into a general type...it is our opinion that cars will be largely divided into two classes—the light runabout type, which is sold at a price to meet the popular demand, and the high-priced, high-powered car combining every detail of workmanship, design, and finish that has and which will always meet the ready sale of the wealthier class of motorists.
Commentary (text)
Publication: The New York Times
Byline: J.D. Wilcox
27 October 1907AUTO MEETS ALL NEEDS.
The future of the automobile is somewhat like that of electricity; we cannot appreciate its possibilities.
Commentary (text)
Publication: The New York Times
Byline: J.W. Stoddard
27 October 1907AUTO OUTPUT CAPACITY.
It is conservative to say that there are in the United States over 200,000 persons among physicians, contractors, city salesmen, and collectors in these classes alone who should own an automobile for economical business reasons.
Commentary (text)
Publication: The New York Times
Byline: J.D. Maxwell
27 October 1907NEW MODEL IDEA PASSED.
The time has come when new models brought out from year to year will be the exception rather than the rule.
Commentary (text)
Publication: The New York Times
Byline: John Kane Mills
27 October 1907THE SIX-CYLINDER CAR.
The well-built six-cylinder engine is an exceedingly smooth performer, fully as flexible in handling as a steam car.
Commentary (text)
Publisher:
Byline: S.H. Mora
27 October 1907STANDARD TYPE REACHED.
Purely pleasure cars seem to have reached a general standard type, differing makes varying as a rule only in details and workmanship.
Commentary (text)
Publication: The New York Times
Byline: Frank Briscoe
27 October 1907AUTO PUBLIC EDUCATED.
The automobile public has been evolved from its state of trustfulness in the word of the manufacturer or salesman in the matter of car purchases to that knowing stage wherein it must be “shown.”
Commentary (text)
Publication: The New York Times
Byline: W.A. Woods
27 October 1907INDUSTRY IN INFANCY.
What the steam railroad meant for the stagecoach, the motorcar means for the pleasure carriage.
Commentary (text)
Publication: The New York Times
Byline: W.C. Marmon/td>
27 October 1907AUTOS ARE NECESSITIES.
The power-driven car has become not only a luxury, but a necessity, and this has been well demonstrated the past season by the great number of cars purchases by municipalities for use in an official capacity.
Commentary (text)
Publication: The New York Times
Byline: John L. Dolson
27 October 1907SIX-CYLINDER DIFFICULTIES.
While a few of the automobile manufacturers of the country are to-day building the six-cylinder car, there is grave doubt in the minds of the leading designers and engineers as to whether this new demand for cars of enormous power is not but a passing craze.
Commentary (text)
Publication: The New York Times
Byline: F.B. Stearns
27 October 1907MOTORING AN AID TO HEALTH.
The automobile has saved our Nation from becoming a race of weaklings. Brown-skinned, hardy-fleshed men at desks are the rule to-day. Where do they acquire this health? Motoring.
Commentary (text)
Publisher: The New York Times
Byline: R.A. Palmer
27 October 1907MORE AUTOS ARE NEEDED.
It is my firm belief that the automobile industry in this country is bound to grow to many times its present size and value.
Commentary (text)
Publication: The New York Times
Byline: H.M. Sternbergh
27 October 1907ELECTRIC BUSINESS WAGON.
Has the time come when more serious attention promising financial returns will be given to the commercial motor vehicle?
Commentary (text)
Publication: The New York Times
Byline: Hayden Eames




The Crittenden Automotive Library