May, I9gI1 
The Reo “30” five-passenger touring car 
$900 to $1,500. Several examples of such machines are 
illustrated herewith. With these, as with the roadsters, 
powerful four-cylinder motors having magneto ignition are 
regularly employed. The motors are sufficiently powerful 
to take the cars, fully loaded, at a good clip, up fairly steep 
hills, and also to pull them through any bad stretches of 
road that may be encountered. 
While many accessories can hardly be expected to be in- 
cluded in a touring car costing $1,500, there are several 
such machines on the market that are furnished complete 
with a top, horn, and lamps for this figure. In purchasing 
an automobile it is always well to note what accessories go 
with the car, and if the machine is an open touring car, a 
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Cape top should always be fitted. Otherwise one is liable 
to be caught in the rain at some time or other and to re- 
ceive a thorough drenching. 
If the purchaser has anything to say regarding the ac- 
cessories that are furnished with his car—and what buyer 
has not?—he will see to it that electric headlights and 
battery-charging dynamo are fitted by the manufacturer in 
place of the acetylene lamps and gas generator or tank of 
compressed gas that are ordinarily supplied. Several first- 
class electric lighting systems for automobiles are now on 
the market, and while the automobile manufacturers have 
not regularly equipped their cars with them, there is no 
Brush 10-horsepower single-cylinder runabout 
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Hudson 20-horsepower roadster, with rumble seat 
doubt that they will do so if urged by the purchaser, at 
any rate provided the is willing to stand the slight addi- 
tional expense. Electric headlights offer the great advan- 
tages of being instantly available without stopping or slow- 
ing down the car, while the dynamo used with this lighting 
system keeps the common ignition and lighting batteries 
always fully charged. The new tungsten-flament lamps 
give fully as brilliant a light as acetylene. It is whiter and 
has no flicker, nor does it ever smoke or go out because of 
lack of gas. 
Next to the headlights the most useful accessory is an 
odometer, as it is always a good idea to know how far 
you travel each day and what is the total mileage per month 
Four-passenger Hupmobile touring car 
and per year. An odometer can be purchased for two or 
three dollars and mounted beside the front wheel; but if 
one can afford it a combined speedometer-odometer driven 
by a flexible shaft and mounted on the dash-board is, of 
course, preferable. Such an instrument costs from $50 to 
$75 and is an excellent investment giving, as it does, to the 
chauffeur a constant indication of the speed of the car and 
the distance covered. ‘The latter knowledge is essential in 
following the road directions in the Blue Book or other 
route-indicating publications. 
From the above brief account one can see that the au- 
tomobiles of rg11 are better and cheaper than ever before. 
The Maxwell-Briscoe 4-cylinder touring car 
