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AUTOMOBILE EXHIBITS

Nash Motors

This parking tower is eighty feet tall, and it carries sixteen cars, each car in a pocket, its full height. Colored lights bathe the tower, and Nash cars pass up and down in continuous movement, bringing each car into a glass-fronted show room at the tower's base.

General Motors

The building is an eighth of a mile long and 306 feet wide, surrounded by a 177-foot tower, brilliantly colored, and illuminated. The entrance hall divides two main display rooms, each containing 18,000 square feet. Here the cars of General Motors are on exhibition. In one of the rooms the General Motors Research Laboratories present a display of their own.

The central feature of the building is a complete automobile assembly plant, to the rear of the display rooms, where 1,000 people at a time may witness the assembly of automobiles. Raw materials enter through one door and by the time they reach the opposite exit, they have become finished cars. A vistor may select the materials for his car as it enters the door, follow its progress along the assembly line, and get in and drive it off at the other side of the room.

Chrysler Motors

In the circular section of the building are displayed the latest models of the Corporations's various cars, together with cross sections of motors, demonstrations of tests for heat, cold and water resistance of motors. The terrace connecting this portion of the building with the display room at the north end offers an excellent vantage point for viewing the endurance and other tests which will be made on the proving grtound to the west and serves as a roof for the space in which visitors will be permitted to inspect those automobiles which have been submitted to experiment.

Barney Oldfield, World's Most Famous Race Driver--First Man to Drive an Automobile a Mile a Minute

Ford Motors

The Ford Exposition building at the 1934 A Century of Progress is 900 feet long. It occupies a tract of eleven acres fronting on Lake Michigan with beautiful Ford Gardens in its foreground. In seeking a keynote for the architectural motif of the Ford Exposition building, the architect decided upon the appropriateness of the gear. The result is that the huge central rotunda of the building resembles graduated internally meshed gears standing the equivalent of ten stories high and meausring 210 feet in diameter at the base.

Part of Henry Ford's priceless collection of old vehicles is the central figure of the Ford Exposition. It is held in the Grand Concourse of the Ford Exposition Building. Display photomurals nineteen feet in height present one of the most elaborate pictorial features of the World's Fair.

Three Ford V-8 cars suspended from a single Ford V-8 wheel is one of the spectacular features of the Ford Exposition. The wheel used is of standard one piece, welded-steel construction such as is found on any new Ford car. Tests show that the wheel has strength sufficient to support the weight of fourteen Ford V-8's.

Ford text is from the postcard backs. Other text is from the 1933 OFFICIAL GUIDE BOOK OF THE FAIR.

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