Automotive Anomaly 1920 Car Defies Convention with its Backward Stance

... back in one piece, your money back if you get killed. ... If there was one thing that shaped the 1920s that gets too little credit, it is the 20s cars. Travel back in time with us as we explore the history of the electric car. ... faced with one of the early problems of the electric vehicle ... Finally, in the mid-1920s, the nation started addressing the problem of traffic safety under the U.S. Secretary of Commerce, Herbert Hoover. Car manufacturers ... Businesses were closing, banks were failing, and farmers were facing foreclosure. ... Back then, car seats were designed like upholstered benches, ... The enormous growth in automobile ownership greatly affected many aspects of American life. Automobile production helped stimulate other industries, since cars. It grew out of experiments Carl Breer began in the late 1920s with a small 20×30 inch cross-section wind tunnel suggested by the Wright brothers ... And the car they produced was a beauty. It ran like a dream, but at $825, the equivalent of a teacher's salary back then, it was still too expensive for the ... It was not difficult to sell cars in America in the months that followed the First World War, since automobile production had been cut back severely as the ... American automakers like Buick and Duesenberg were among the first automakers to incorporate a trunk onto the back of a car. However, this was ... Though facing related problems at nearly the same time, GM and du Pont ... Of the several thousand companies that had produced cars prior to 1920, 120 ...