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How Auto Manufacturers View the Trend of Car Development Publisher: The New York Times Page Sections: Article Index |
Date | Article | Details |
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27 October 1907 | POPULAR 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 1907 | COMMERCIAL 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 1907 | INDUSTRIAL 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 1907 | TWO 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 1907 | AUTO 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 1907 | AUTO 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 1907 | NEW 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 1907 | THE 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 1907 | STANDARD 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 1907 | AUTO 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 1907 | INDUSTRY 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 1907 | AUTOS 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 1907 | SIX-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 1907 | MOTORING 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 1907 | MORE 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 1907 | ELECTRIC 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 |