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BODY SIDE 

 STAKES 



BODY TRANSVERoE THREL- SPEED FOOT BRAKE ON 



SUPPORTS PROGRESSIVE GEARSET DRIVINO SHAFT 



CHANGE -GEAR 

 LEVER 



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. FRAME. 



REAR 



SPRING 



VvORM GEAR 



WORPFWHEe., 



CASING 



WORM WHEEL 



RADIUS 

 ROD 

 TORQUE ARM / ROD 

 tEAR AXLE FRONT SUPPORT 



RADIUS ROD & TORQUE ARM 



% 

 CLUTCH 

 PLDAL 

 AND BRAKL LEVER i 



STEER! NG- 

 KNUCKLE 



If you took a huge knife capable of cutting hardened and heat-treated steel and slashed it down 

 through the center of a modern motor-truck from one end to the other, the result would be 

 something like this picture, in which all the vital parts of the vehicle are exposed to view. 

 Note how compactly the internal parts are arranged despite the long wheelbase of the vehicle, 

 and how few rods are exposed to the wear and tear of travel. Another significant feature revealed 



A Pushmobile De Luxe for the 

 Youthful Speedster 



A THREE-WHEELED vehicle built for 

 boys and girls from eight to fifteen 

 years of age is the latest addition to the 

 pushmobile family. It is operated by hand 

 by means of a forward and backward lever 

 and rack movement. As shown in the 

 accompanying illustration, it is made of 

 bicycle parts and is steered with the feet. 

 The front and rear wheels are 

 placed far apart to prevent 

 overturning. It is equipped 

 with a bucket seat of the rac- 

 ing car type, 

 and other up- 

 to-date para- 

 phernalia. 



The latest thing in pushmobiles. It is operated by means of a 

 lever and rack movement and is equipped with all the pushmo- 

 bile refinements including a hand-horn and an electric searchlight 



Where Is the Automobile Seemingly 

 Most Popular? 



TWENTY years ago the horseless car- 

 riage was in its earliest experimental 

 stages. To-day there are more than two- 

 and a half million motor cars in the United 

 States — a car to every forty-one persons! 

 In sixteen years the revenue derived from 

 automobile licenses alone has grown from 

 less than a thousand dollars to more than 

 eighteen millions in the year 1916. Ninety 

 per cent of this amount was spent on road 

 and highway improvements. But perhaps 

 the most interesting facts in the automo- 

 bile industry relate to the car-per-pop- 

 ulation figures. Iowa, for instance, has 

 a car to every fifteen persons, 

 while New York, our richest 

 State, has a car to every thirty- 

 nine persons. In other words, 

 Iowa, in proportion to her 

 population, has twice 

 as many cars as New 

 York, and twenty 

 times as many as 

 Tennessee. 



The Southern 

 States have the lowest 

 averages of automo- 

 biles a c c o rd i n g to 

 population, while the 

 Western States have 

 the largest. 



