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In this prophecy Mr. Kettering shows where motordom's endless changes are leading, just as all of his inventions point the way towards a life filled with gadgets to reduce all effort. But the first era of his automobile's transition from a buggy with an engine inserted under the driver's seat seems completed, for the Royal Family enters 1933 not with the hope of placing more & more cars on the highways but with the pious ambition of halting the seepage of cars off the highway and into dead storage or junk heaps (see below).
*But on March 4 Mr. Chapin plans to return to Hudson and to palatial home at Grosse Pointe Farms, Mich. *Invented in 1910 in the barn of Col. Edward Andrew Deeds, now chairman of National Cash Register Co., and sold to the Lelands who then owned Cadillac. One of their friends had just been killed cranking a car. Named after Dayton Engineering Laboratories Co. which was formed by Mr. Kettering and later became part of GM. **Invented in 1921 after many noxious experiments which filled the laboratories with vile odors. ‡Mr. Kettering's part in the invention of Duco may be much overstated. All the transactions are shrouded in corporate history. Once Mr. Kettering was annoyed by the length of time it took to paint and dry a car. "We might be able to do it in 34 days," he was told. "An hour would be more like it," he snapped back. *Buick's innovation of last year, "Wizard Control," was engineered by the Bragg-Kliesrath division of Bendix Aviation Corp. This year's selling feature, ''No-Draft Ventilation"—panels opening outward like a French window—was done independently by the Fisher Body division. GM's new "starterator"—self starter hitched to accelerator—was brought out by Malcolm Stevenson, oldtime polo player, and John Good. Another GM development for 1933 is a regulator to adjust the spark to the octane-content of gasoline, to ensure complete combustion, avert "knocking." For 1933 there is one development which may assume the importance of 1932's Free-Wheeling: Bendix and Studebaker say, "This is the Power Brake Year."