Popular Science Monthly 



103 



top if allowed to accumulate. The water 

 drains off the eave trough through pipes to 

 the ground. 



Another feature of the turtle back is a 

 tire-carrier directly under the top compart- 

 ment. The carrier is made of two semi- 

 circular halves mounted on a 

 central shaft so that one half forms 

 a curved door to provide a closed 

 cylindrical box when shut and pro- 

 vides access to two 

 horizontal shelves, 

 each of which car- 

 ries a tire, when 

 open. This ar- 

 rangement is 

 especially con- 

 venient because it 

 eliminates lifting 

 and strapping the 

 tires upon a con- 

 ventional carrier. 



The automatic 

 top differs from 

 that j ust described 

 not only in that it 

 is raised and low- 

 ered by the power 

 of the vehicle engine instead of by hand but 

 that it is stowed away out of sight in the 

 extended rear end of the body without any 

 turtle back. When not in use. the top is 

 wound around a horizontal crosswise roller 

 in the rear compartment. The front end of 

 the top is drawn forward to the windshield 

 by means of two steel cables which extend 

 down through the hollow windshield side 

 posts to a small spool drum revolved 

 through a friction gear from the engine fly- 

 wheel. The operation of drawing the top 

 forward out of its compartment and wind- 

 ing the two cables around the drum is 

 controlled by a small lever manipulated by 

 the driver. 

 The winding 

 drum is re- 

 v o 1 v e d 

 through a set 

 of gears and a 

 clutch under 

 the floor of 

 the cab. The 

 top compart- 

 ment is closed 

 by a door re- 

 strained by 

 springs and 

 so arranged 

 that a push 



on a small button by the driver automatically 

 opens it. The manipulation of the| drum 

 lever draws the top forward in ten seconds. 

 It is automatically stopped when it reaches 

 the windshield. 



To lower the top the operations are 

 reversed, the 

 cables being dis- 

 connected at the 

 windshield and 

 the top drawn 

 back by a spring- 

 reel at the rear. 

 The free ends of 

 the cables are laid 

 in small grooves in 

 the body sides in 

 the way of the, 

 rear seat where 

 they are easily 

 reached by the 

 driver. When up, 

 the top is pre- 

 vented from sag- 

 ging by means of 

 three thin strips 

 of spring steel 

 wound with it 

 around the roller. The spare tires are 

 carried in a horizontal position beneath the 

 top roller in the rear compartment. 



A separate compartment to carry extra wheels, a 

 feature which distinguishes this car from all others 



Raising the top after removing it from its hidden position in 

 the turtle - backed carrier at the extreme rear of the car 



A Vast Fortune Is Chewed Up 

 Every Year 



LOUD and long are the complaints of the 

 / stringency of the times and the wails 

 concerning the tightness of money; but 

 these laments are not coming from the 

 manufacturers of chewing gum. Neither 

 the war nor any other calamity has affected 

 the output of this great necessity. The 

 annual im- 

 ports of chew- 

 in g gum 

 average about 

 7,000,000 

 pounds, al- 

 though in 

 1913 the av- 

 erage reached 

 nearly 14,000,- 

 000 pounds. 

 Thus it is esti- 

 mated that 

 $13,000,000 

 are chewed up 

 annually. 



