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HOUSANDS of bathers at a famous beach near San Francisco were recently astonished to see a rakish-looking automobile drive down the beach and into the water. Instead of immediately disappearing beneath the waves, the automobleautomobile [sic] rode high over the swells, and still moving rapidly, took a short cruise around the harbor, after which it came ashore and disappeared as suddenly as it had appeared.

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 rudder instead of the front wheels.

Water is prevented from entering the body at the points where the axles pro-