Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 25 May 1939 — Page 17

THURSDAY, MAY 25, 1939

"Automobile News

Proposed Dual Lane Road From

City to Greenwood Called Ideal

Stoops Terms It Route of Future; North-South Highway Planned.

The new dual lane highway planned between Indianapolis and Greenwood will be the ideal road of the future, according to Todd | Stoops, Hoosier Motor Club secretary The highway, which will be started soon, will have a grass plot running down its center. The oldtime four-lane highways are dangerous because of the likelihood of headon collisions, Mr. Stoops declared. “The increased width of the fourlane road,” he said, "has lessened the danger to some extent, but has | not eliminated it. The four-lane] highway is almost as dangerous as| the three-lane road.” Plan North-South Road A proposed North-South through highway system, to run from Macki- | naw City, Mich. to Key West, Fla. over U. S. 31 through Indianapolis, is to be constructed. on the improved dual lane plan, Mr. Stoops said Although ostensibly to pass through Indianapolis, Mr. Stoops explained the road would go around the City because of the great amount of traffic it would carry. “It will circle the City, probably to the west,” he said. "One or perhaps two ‘cloverleafs’ will have to be built to provide egress from the road and still not interfere with the traflic. ‘Cloverleaf’ Explained “A ‘cloverleaf’ is the name for the new type of overhead crossing of through highways. The danger of collision between auto on the crossroads is brought to a minimum by the use of this crossing. “There will also need to be an overhead at the crossing of Read 40 and the new highway,” he added. The new highway will be built by funds contributed by the states through which the highway travels and augmented by Federal grants-in-aid Kentucky already has be-! gun to improve the part of the road that goes through its territory. In some parts of the country, where it is almost impossible to widen the present strip and make a dual lane highway, two roads will be built parallel to one another, Mr. Stoops said. Kentucky did this in the case of 41E and 41W. The newest idea is to separate the road and

allow only one way traffic on each: ®

road. Approved by U. S. The U. S. War Department has approved way see, Alabama and Florida. Mr. Stoops said the building of the proposed highway would be a very slow process. “It might be five or even 10 years before the entire stretch of dual lane highway is an accomplished fact,” he declared.

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1g lot probably will be readv for use within the next four weeks at the northwest corner of Virginia Ave. and Delaware St. Fletcher Trust Co. officials said today Acting as trustees for the estate of Noble Brandon Judah, they have granted a court order permitthem to tear down a threebrick building at that loca-

A new parki

been ting story tion Company officials said thev were sure when the razing would be1 but that it would be soon and that the complete job should not take more than a week or 10 days.

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! pitch is specified. Maroon is a taboo color in Egypt, | royal color and reserved for King Farouk and his family.

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Foreign Customs and Conditions Present Manufacturers In U. S. With Some Special Problems.

UTOs built in America for export necessitate unusual equipment. Cars for Algeria and the Sudan must have wider tires for sand duty. Because garages are hundreds of miles apart in Africa’s interior, a special hole must be drilled through the radiator grille to accommodate a crank to be used when the battery goes dead. One manufacturer makes alterations affecting a total of 1500 parts |

| so the driver may sit on the right instead of the left.

When the driver sits on the left and the car is driven on the left side of the road, as in Panama and the Virgin Islands,

cars must be equipped with reversed headlights te throw the beam away from the eyes of oncoming drivers.

In Cuba, dual horns are prohibited, but in Argentina a certain

The new Chevrolet “station wagon.”

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Charles E. Underwood, who operated an auto agency many years now holds a new Studebaker dealership. The | appointment was made by Clayton Lewis, Studebaker Corp. district | Mr. Underwood is using the English Ave. showrooms, com=- |

at 2401 English Ave,

manager pletely redecorated.

(left) and Mr. YFewis talk things over. =

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TREAMLINING has very little effect on wind resistance until high speeds are reached, an Automobile Manufacturers Association bulletin said today. Several changes would be made, the bulletin said, if reduction of wind resistance were the main objective. The principal

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VISIONS PLASTIC

Chrysler Officer Describes Attitude of Builders Toward Plan.

Times Special | BALTIMORE, May 25.—An auto- | mobile designer's dream-—a plastic motor car molded or pressed out lin one piece—was envisioned this ‘week by Gordon Saunders, staff | officer of the Chrysler Corp. | Speaking before the American | Chemical Society, Mr. Saunders pointed out that the automobile industry as yet appears skeptical of the fact that plastics can take the | place of steel in fundamental and | structural parts of a car. “Designers for a long time have

THE INDIANAPOLIS TIMES.

ONE-PIECE CAR| Car Colors, Experts Say

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As Business Goes, So Go

DETROIT, May 25 (U. P.).—Color exparts have decided that the more prosperous is business the gayer the hues on automobiles. A survey during the past 20 years has shown that during periods of business depression, black and other somber colors predominated. As conditions tend to improve, however, brighter hues are more in demand, and so it appears to some experts the country is about to enjoy an era of prosperity. A survey of purchases over the past few months by one manufac-|

turer showed that of 40,000 cars|Ped toward grayer tones. built, black, which had been domi-| In 1934 the curve started upward

nant. was specified in only 24 r| again toward lighter and brighter cent of the Soe The er he |colors. The curve got slightly off its such as “sandbar, cascade blue, | course in 1938 but indications are nd dove gray” were [thus far this year that it has retravelers green a gray” ¥ | sumed a definite course pointing to the brighter shades.

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| intensity started to increase gradu{ally until 1929 or 1930 when it dip-

built. Color authorities say that even the colors usually classified as|

“dark” lately have started to assume a richer, more brilliant appearance and increase in intensity. A particular shade of maroon, for instance,

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now is much higher in chromatic

{dreamed of a motor vehicle which]

‘could be molded or pressed out of |a composite material which would {have high strength, toughness and | resistance durable finish,” Mr. Saunders said. “Plastic resins could fit this description if they were only improved,” he stated.

to shock, and smooth |

iin color value.

value than previous maroons. A New car buyers in Indiana or shade of gray and one of blue, while! out about $1,370,000 in taxes the! not high chromatically speaking, | first quarter of the year, a Natend toward gayness from a psycho-|tjonal Consumers Tax Commission logical standpoint because of certain | report said today. highlights they make possible. The report showed 18,228 new The correlation between colors|car registrations in the first three] and business conditions is seen in/months of 1939 as compared to the fact that following the World| 14.115 in the same period last year. War auto buyers started to specify] On these new cars, buyers paid “monochromatic” combinations low! 206 direct and indirect taxes, acHowever, the color ' cording to the report.

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