A Model Six Hundred-Car Garage 



An automobile can get into or out 

 of it in from ten to fifteen seconds 



Each car hab its own stall in the form of an island platform which guides it 

 into or out of the aisle. This eliminates crowding and exasperating delays 



IN the giant garage shown on these two 

 pages, the exasperating delays often 

 encountered in getting cars into or out 

 of the aisle are eliminated, because the 

 garage has no elevators and the cars are 

 automatically spaced on the floors in such 

 a manner that there is sufficient room for 

 each one to run out into the aisle without 

 disturbing the cars next to it. 



Inclined concrete ramps take the place 

 of elevators, each ramp 

 being twenty feet wide. 

 They are arranged so that 

 one line of cars goes up 

 while another line is com- 

 ing down. There is a 

 concrete curb in the cen- 

 ter of each ramp, to 

 restrict the lines of cars to 

 separate paths, so as to 

 prevent collisions between 

 cars passing in opposite 

 directions. Besides being 

 a great convenience to the 

 individual automobile 

 owner, these two-way 

 ramps will effect a saving 

 of approximately $18,250 

 in annual overhead ex- 

 pense for the garage-own- 

 er. The ramps from floor 

 to floor of the four-story 

 structure take up the 

 same amount of room as 

 elevators, but the cost of 

 building them is the only 

 expense connected with 



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them. It costs 

 nothing to oper- 

 ate them when 

 once built. The 

 designer of the 

 garage, H. B. 

 Mulliken,ofNew 

 York city, has 

 calculated that 

 the cost of each 

 trip of an eleva- 

 tor is ten cents 

 and that the 

 average daily 

 number of cars 

 going up and 

 down in the six hundred-car structure 

 would be two hundred and fifty, making 

 five hundred trips in all. 



The delays incident to backing a car into 

 its stall between two other cars whose 

 positions are only approximated by white- 

 wash lines on the floor or numbers on the 

 walls, have been eliminated by the use of 

 island location platforms much the same 



With a capacity for six 

 hundred cars the new 



