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Automobile Body That Packs Within 

 Chassis Space 



YOU have seen the advertisement pic- 

 tures of knock-down bungalows and 

 small cruising 

 launches? The 



various parts are 

 first put together, 

 then marked, taken 

 down, and finally 

 packed one inside 

 the other for ship- 

 ment. 



The same idea 

 has been applied to 

 reduce the cost of 

 shipping automo- 

 bile bodies by pack- 

 ing them in fifty 

 per cent of their 

 usual space. What 

 is more a body can 

 be converted into a 

 two-seater, a four- 

 seater or a delivery 

 car with a small 

 load-carrying box 

 at the rear. 



In brief, the body 

 consists of two side 



sills which are mounted directly on the 

 car frame when assembled, and separate 

 cab side portions, floor-boards, doors, 

 rear, side, and end parts, the vertical and 

 horizontal parts of seats, and even parts 

 of the cowl and engine hood sides and 

 top. 



The various parts into which a body 

 may be divided are shown in the accom- 

 panying sketch. When put together, the 

 various parts are rigidly 

 held in place by means of 

 small bolts with counter- 

 sunk heads, so that the en- 

 tire body is a homogeneous 

 unit which can be painted 

 and varnished according 

 to the individual taste of 

 the purchaser. The con- 

 vertible feature of the body 

 is made i)Ossihle by leaving 

 off some jjarts and inserting 

 others in their places to 

 give two or four seats or a 

 panel or box tyj)e delivery 

 body as shown. 



Sectional automobile body which can be 

 assembled by the purchaser or dealer 



Use Fruit Trees Instead of Shade 

 Trees or Even Ivy 



A CONSERVATION of land space 

 movement, in Germany, some time 

 ago, resulted in the 

 utilization of dwarf 

 varieties of fruit 

 trees instead of 

 much of the shrub- 

 bery planted merely 

 for ornamental pur- 

 poses, and in the 

 planting of small 

 trees close against 

 the walls of brick or 

 stone houses so that 

 the branches could 

 be trained 

 over the walls 

 in the man- 

 ner of ivy. 

 The a c- 

 companying photo- 

 graph shows pear 

 trees, pruned care- 

 fully and trained to 

 spread out over the 

 walls just like vines. 

 The practice is now 

 common in hard- 

 pressed Germany and is likely to find 

 favor in this country. Pear, plum, and 

 other fruit trees are thus trained over 

 housewalls, fences and garden partitions 

 so that not an inch of ground is wasted. 

 In this way, too, the trees are prevented 

 from throwing too much shade over other 

 growing things in their vicinity, and 

 the appearance of the houses is, in addi- 

 tion, very considerably enhanced. 



Pear trees trained to spread out over the walls of a 

 house like ivy vines both for pleasure and for profit 



