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Up and down, over armored ridges and into sandy arroyos, along leaning hillsides and across 'dobe flats, baked brick hard by the sun, the current of travel roared and pounded with reckless disregard of tire and bolt and axle. In the main, it was a motor-driven procession.
The Krupp Company has evolved many designs of anti-aircraft motor-driven guns "Archibalds" the British airmen term them with emphatic levity. They are sturdily-built vehicles fitted with heavy motors, developing from 40 to 50 horse-power, with the chassis not widely dissimilar from that adopted for motor-omnibus traffic.
Then while the boys were looking at him in utter amazement he continued. "Listen, fellows! I was running mother's electric vacuum cleaner this morning before I started to school. I saw how easily the motor-driven fan sucked in everything in sight. I held the nozzle near a fly on the window pane and zipp p-p, in went Mr. Fly.
An interesting example in the streets of Berlin is the difference between the perfection of the street-cleaning, which deals with the inanimate and with accurately calculable factors, and the governing of the street traffic. Horses and men and motor-driven vehicles are not as dependable as blocks of pavement.
Then in less than two minutes he appeared with a round, red-faced, white-headed old man who wheezed chuckles as he talked. His fear of the car was only equaled by his fascination at the idea of the long ride in it, which would be the first motor-driven sortie he had ever made out into life. "Air ye sure, little missie, that you can drive the contraption so as not to run away with us?
Few wayfarers braved the swimming sidewalks, and the little clusters of chairs and tables beneath permanent cafe awnings were one and all neglected. But in the roadways an amazing concourse of vehicles, mostly motor-driven, skimmed, skidded, and shot over burnished asphalting all, of course, at top-speed else this were not Paris.
The "Improved" form is the general type so well known for many years and sold at the present day viz., the spring or electric motor-driven machine with the cylindrical wax record in fact, the regulation Edison phonograph.
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