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���The old Dutch wooden shoe as an adver- tising device on wheels

A Quaint Advertising Automobile

DESIGNED to resemble a wooden shoe, such as the peasants of Hol- land wear, the automobile pictured is curious enough. The lines of the sabot are correctly followed, and even the ap- pearance of wood is secured by artistic graining. It is a most attention-com- pelling bit of advertising on wheels.

Gravity-Flow Gasoline Supply Station

THE owner of an automobile gaso- line supply station installed a tank with a glass gage. The tank is much above the fuel tank of any automobile, so that the gasoline flows by gravity, the quantity being controlled by the pur- chaser at his machine. The tank has

���been accurately calibrated and checked by an official. This insures no shortage from leaky valves. This apparatus is less expensive and easier to operate than an ordinar\- pump.

A Portable Wrecking-Truck

A SMALL light-weight wrecking- truck, which can be carried with ease in a relief car, has been designed by a Danville (111.) man, and has been useful in his business. When called from his garage to tow in a WTecked car with a smashed wheel, he does not have

���Why not let gasoline run down into

your fuel-tank instead of pumping it up

by armpower?

��Is it not better to tow a wrecked

automobile in this way than with the usual

awkward timber drag?

to drag in the wreck on a four-by-four timber, set under the axle of the missing wheel, but slips the truck in place instead and tows the car home without difficulty. It fits under the front or rear axles with a few minutes' work, and the caster-like arrangement of the wheels makes it easy to steer.

An Oil-Proof Cement

A CEMENT which will not be af- fected by oil is made by mixing glvcerine and litharge to the consistency of a thick paste. This will be found very handv in repairing cracked oil-reservoirs or in making an oil-tight joint between two metal plates. The cement should be applied as soon as it is mixed, since it hardens very quickly.

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