Delia the Motor Duck 



THOUSANDS of bathers 

 at a famous beach near 

 San Francisco were re- 

 centl}^ astonished to see a rakish- 

 looking automobile drive down 

 the beach and into the water. 

 Instead of immediately disap- 

 pearing beneath the waves, the 

 automoble rode high 

 over the swells, and still 

 moving rapidly, took a 

 short cruise around the 

 harbor, after which it 

 came ashore and disap- 

 peared as suddenly as it 

 had appeared. 



If you owned "Delia" and you came to a stream 

 you would plunge boldly in and swim with the aid 

 of the propeller to the opposite shore. Then you 

 would climb the bank and ride on wheels over 

 roads again 



A closer inspection of this remarkable 

 machine reveals the fact that it has a 

 boat body, through which project the 

 automobile wheels. When used as a 

 boat the power is transferred from the 

 driving wheels to a propeller in the stern, 

 and the steering wheel actuates the rud- 

 der instead of the front wheels. 



AA^'ater is prevented from entering the 

 body at the points where the axles pro- 



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