Over the years, a lot of people put thier minds to improving the automotive experience. Whether is was comfort, entertainment, or easier operation, it seems they really beleived thier inventions would make motoring better. Some went so faqr as to put them into production. Some could be ordered from well-know catalogs, some via mail-in ads from magazines, etc.
To earn points, you must provide at least one of these details about on of these 13 accessories:
- The name of the inventor
- The name of the seller
- The brand name of the product
AND, you must provide the intended purpose of the product.
Simple, no?
Enjoy! :)
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We'll track the correct answers here:
#1 Auto Timer remote timing selector / Tom_I
#2 Boilmaster Junior Auto Kitchen / Oguerrerob
#3 Electronic Developments Polarvision Safety Light / Oguerrerob
#4 Philips Auto Mignon / Tom_I
#5 C H Foster / Gabriel Horn Mfg Company 4-tone horn / bentleybob
#6 Yugoslav invention senses tension in eyebrow muscles to automaticall apply brakes. / Oguerrerob
#7 Westinghouse Car and Garage heater - 1920 / Tom_I
#8 MORBACO Manufacturing Co AUTO-SHOCKO / Oguerrerob
#9 Safe-T-Lite automobile cigarette lighter / Oguerrerob
#10 Springfield Hat and Cap Company Auto Cap / Tom_I
#11 Thermador Auto Cooler / whcgt
#12 Pipe Organ Speakers JC Whitney / Tom_I
#13 S&W Auto Crank by Stryker & Woessner of Huron OH / Oguerrerob
Experts?
11.jpg equals: RCA portable 45rpm record player Invented by Peter Goldmark...Sold on 1959 & 1960 Plymouth & DeSoto models...also sold through J.C. Whitney it was called the"Highway Hi-Fi"...RCA Auto Victrola...it did not sell or work very well...not many were sold. 4.jpg equals: The Thermador Cooler, available through many places...including Sears Roebuck and Star mfg. The version you are showing, I believe to be the ram-air type. A Fan powered version also was used. It also uses water...much like a swamp cooler to assist with cooling the occupants. It has been around since the 1930's it was invented by several people who came up with the evaporative cooler process for cooling.
Quote from: whcgt on October 11, 2011, 03:33:43 PM
11.jpg equals: RCA portable 45rpm record player Invented by Peter Goldmark...Sold on 1959 & 1960 Plymouth & DeSoto models...also sold through J.C. Whitney it was called the"Highway Hi-Fi"...RCA Auto Victrola...it did not sell or work very well...not many were sold.
Similar, but no. The device Goldmark invented played records that were the same diameter as 45's, but played at 16 2/3 RPM (so as to provide a listening experience more than a few minutes long). The pictured device is similar to Goldmark's unit, but was invented and sold elsewhere, and plays ordinary 45's.
Quote from: whcgt on October 11, 2011, 03:33:43 PM
4.jpg equals: The Thermador Cooler, available through many places...including Sears Roebuck and Star mfg. The version you are showing, I believe to be the ram-air type. A Fan powered version also was used. It also uses water...much like a swamp cooler to assist with cooling the occupants. It has been around since the 1930's it was invented by several people who came up with the evaporative cooler process for cooling.
Right you are!
Pros?
#4, the 45-rpm record player is shown mounted in a late 50s Ford Taunus, so I'd guess it's a European market model, in which case it would be called a Philips Auto Mignon, current from about 1959 to 63.
Philips model numbers of this era are a bit of a minefield, and often there are more than one. This is known as an AG 2101, GA 101 or MK 60, but there may be other variations.
The same model was also available in America, but would have been sold under the brand name of Norelco, as Philco had a major dispute with Philips over the similarity of their trade names.
I have a different spelling, but that's otherwise correct.
A couple of pics.
I've taken the spelling from the manufacturer's literature, which I think is difficult to argue with.
I've since found the web page that the puzzle picture came from. They have also spelled Philips wrong - it only has one 'L' - and they describe it as a German company, when in fact it's Dutch. More internet misinformation, I'm afraid. ;)
#12 - Pipe organ speakers from the JC Whitney auto parts catalogue of 1975.
9.- "A new type of cigarette lighter for car smokers is this Safe-T-Lite, which was recently announced by its manufacturer in Los Angeles, Calif., Oct. 1, 1950. The driver drops a cigarette into a conventional opening, and pushes a button located on the side. The button pops up to indicate that the cigarette is lit and ready to be smoked. The entire process can be done without taking one's eyes off the road. (AP PhotoDon Brinn)"
8.- Auto-Schocko - by Morbarco Manufacturing Co.
You guys are in gear now!
#1 is an "Auto-Timer", a device for manually adjusting the ignition timing of your car as you drive - a bit like you had to on early cars, before those ever-helpful engineers developed centrifugal and vacuum advance-retard mechanisms, so you didn't have to bother thinking about such mundane details.
So what do you do to thank them? You fit one of these things, which allows you to mess up the automatic timing without moving from the driver's seat. Brilliant! ;D
6. Eyebrow Control a device from Yugoslavia
#7 is obviously a work light that plugs into a table lamp or similar.
But I've no idea of a brand name.
2.- I guess same idea another trademark
7.- Same trademark another use
5.- similar device
Quote from: Tom_I on October 24, 2011, 07:59:08 AM
#1 is an "Auto-Timer", a device for manually adjusting the ignition timing of your car as you drive
That's it!
Quote from: D-type on October 24, 2011, 05:40:44 PM
#7 is obviously a work light that plugs into a table lamp or similar.
No, it's not
Quote from: Oguerrerob on October 25, 2011, 07:18:38 AM
2.- I guess same idea another trademark
I'll check and reply later
Quote from: Oguerrerob on October 25, 2011, 07:33:30 AM
5.- similar device
I'm not looking for similar devices. I'm looking for the devices included in the puzzle.
Quote from: Oguerrerob on October 25, 2011, 07:18:38 AM
2.- I guess same idea another trademark
Not that, or from there.
13. Handy Ford Starter 1914
2. Plug-in Coffee Maker by Ford Motor Company
How to camp in your Ford Station Wagon. I found this book at an AAUW (American Association of University Women) book sale about 25 years ago and quickly snatched it up. It was published in 1957 and has loads of helpful information on equipment, campgrounds and experimental camping gear designed for station wagon camping.
Quote from: Oguerrerob on November 18, 2011, 01:49:46 PM
2. Plug-in Coffee Maker by Ford Motor Company
That describes its function, but what's it called?
2. Boilmaster Junior Auto Kitchen with two cups, two spoon and a bracket. Made by Clarion Products, Highland Park, III., or American Electric Appliance Corp 1060 Washington Ave, The Bronx 56, NY.
NR 5 would be the Gabriel exhaust driven car organ horn which could be operated as a whole for one - loud - tone, but also made to perate a preset tune or even in some cases with a small keyboard from inside the car (ordered by the German Kaiser in one of his cars). Invented by Claud Lang in the USA, who founded the Gabriel Car Horn Company whiuch he sold in the twenties for $4 million.
Quote from: Oguerrerob on November 19, 2011, 01:41:33 PM
2. Boilmaster Junior Auto Kitchen with two cups, two spoon and a bracket. Made by Clarion Products, Highland Park, III., or American Electric Appliance Corp 1060 Washington Ave, The Bronx 56, NY.
Good ol' Google
Quote from: bentleybob on November 19, 2011, 02:42:52 PM
NR 5 would be the Gabriel exhaust driven car organ horn which could be operated as a whole for one - loud - tone, but also made to perate a preset tune or even in some cases with a small keyboard from inside the car (ordered by the German Kaiser in one of his cars). Invented by Claud Lang in the USA, who founded the Gabriel Car Horn Company whiuch he sold in the twenties for $4 million.
I have a different inventor listed (one C.H. Foster), but that's enough detail for the point
Four more points on offer...
:snooze:
Pro-land is getting overstocked.
Moving to the hole.
Is 7 An electric heater would keep the car engine and radiator warm during winter?
Is 13 A device for fold/unfold the roof?
Quote from: Oguerrerob on January 30, 2012, 03:17:47 PM
Is 7 An electric heater would keep the car engine and radiator warm during winter?
Is 13 A device for fold/unfold the roof?
#7 is a heater, but not for the car engine and radiator - I'll lock this one for you.
#13 does not manipulate or move the roof. You identified it purpose in an earlier guess.
Quote from: Oguerrerob on January 30, 2012, 03:17:47 PM
Is 7 An electric heater would keep the car engine and radiator warm during winter?
Is 13 A device for fold/unfold the roof?
#7 is a heater, - I'll lock this one for you.
#13 does not manipulate or move the roof. You identified its purpose in an earlier guess, so I'll lock this for you, too.
13 Ever-Ready Automatic Starter
The inventor of #6 was Dr. Ing. Vodovnik.
7. Peter the Heater?
Quote from: Oguerrerob on February 28, 2012, 12:10:33 PM
7. Peter the Heater?
;D That's pretty neat! But not the name I have
Sweeping moisture from Automobile Windshields by an Automatic Squeegee
Please make sure to include which accessory your reply is applied to.
That doesn't correlate to any of the unidentified accessories.
Oh, Sorry. AccessoriesPuzzle3. seems it's not.
Time for more clues...
AccessoriesPuzzle10 Demmerle Hat?
No
#3 I suspect the whited-out areas of the picture are making it a bear to solve. Maybe this clue will help ;)
#7 From a well-know purveyor of electrical devices of all kinds.
#10 This company shares its name with 13 cities, 11 towns, and 14 townships in the US
#13 If you're looking to the North & East, you'll never get this one.
Quote from: Otto Puzzell on September 09, 2012, 09:58:46 AM
#10 This company shares its name with 13 cities, 11 towns, and 14 townships in the US
That'll be Springfield, then?
Of course! :D
The fashionable lid is a Springfield Hat and Cap Company Auto Cap
I have some new group puzzles queued up, but I really think we need to close these older ones out.
I'm offering twice the regular points for solutions that are posted in this thread before 12:00 AM Monday, Eastern Standard Time.
I'd like nothing more than to award some points and close out another old puzzle. ;)
#7 National Theatre Supply Drive In Movie Car Heater
You're halfway there (#7 is a heater) but it was made by another, better-known, company. It also predates drive-in movies by a number of years.
EPRAD Inc. (Electronic Products - Research And Development)?
More of a household name than EPRAD
Sheridan?
No sir
Is #13 a remote (inside car) starter for a Ford Model T by Hunter?
Not one of those.
Is #13 a remote (inside car) starter by Stewart-Warner?
Quote from: 4popoid on February 06, 2014, 02:08:27 PM
Is #13 a remote (inside car) starter by Stewart-Warner?
No sir
#3 employed a type of radiation later favored by hippies.
#7 came from a company that was once well-known in the US for electric-powered consumer goods. Before that, its founder made his fortune in pneumatic.
#13 was also marketed using this image:
Quote from: Otto Puzzell on February 15, 2014, 06:39:12 AM
#7 came from a company that was once well-known in the US for electric-powered consumer goods. Before that, its founder made his fortune in pneumatic.
That must be Westinghouse. I don't know if this device had a specific name, but I think this is it, from a patent application. Just called "Automobile engine heater", it was patented in 1921 by Frank Thornton Jr. of the Westinghouse Electric Company.
Quote from: Tom_I on February 15, 2014, 09:34:27 AM
Quote from: Otto Puzzell on February 15, 2014, 06:39:12 AM
#7 came from a company that was once well-known in the US for electric-powered consumer goods. Before that, its founder made his fortune in pneumatic.
That must be Westinghouse. I don't know if this device had a specific name, but I think this is it, from a patent application. Just called "Automobile engine heater", it was patented in 1921 by Frank Thornton Jr. of the Westinghouse Electric Company.
That is correct. It was promoted as: "Westinghouse Car (and Garage) heater" in 1920.
13. I've found a similar device: Lighting Crank Starter Auto Mafam Rheydt GmbH 1913-18 Germany
Quote from: Oguerrerob on August 31, 2016, 02:50:47 PM
13. I've found a similar device: Lighting Crank Starter Auto Mafam Rheydt GmbH 1913-18 Germany
Very similar, indeed. #13 comes from another company, and a different land.
13. 1911 Dayton Engineering Laboratories Company (DELCO) Self-Starter by Charles Kettering USA?
Quote from: Oguerrerob on September 01, 2016, 03:01:34 PM
13. 1911 Dayton Engineering Laboratories Company (DELCO) Self-Starter by Charles Kettering USA?
Much closer, geographically, but not an electric self starter.
This is also from a few years earlier.
Here is a another pic, from the year after the puzzle pic was published.
The Prest-O-lite Starting Apparatus for Explosive Engines by James A. Allison, 1912-15 Indiana, USA?
Nope
(you need to stay in Ohio)
Compressed Air Starter by Alexander Winton?
No sir - it uses only the (multipled through gear reduction) power generated by its human operator.
Could it be The Disco Acetylene Starter?
Quote from: Oguerrerob on September 03, 2016, 06:25:12 AM
Could it be The Disco Acetylene Starter?
No - those were made in Detroit, MI.
Starter by Joseph A. Williams of K. W. Ignition Company Cleveland, Ohio?
Not that one, but you're getting closer. You'll need to go west from Cleveland
Starter for internal Combustion engines by Theodore A Boor 1914 Ashville, Ohio?
You went Southwest - this accessory is from a place almost due West of Cleveland, on the shore of Lake Erie
From Toledo or closer?
East of Toledo
Sandusky?
Very close to Sandusky
Starting Device by Robert D Stryker 1910 Huron, Ohio
Quote from: Oguerrerob on September 05, 2016, 07:33:33 AM
Starting Device by Robert D Stryker 1910 Huron, Ohio
Voila!
Only # 3 remains to be solved.
Thank you for the hints and help
#3 employed a type of radiation later favored by hippies.
Could it be Neon Black Light?
Quote from: Oguerrerob on September 06, 2016, 03:21:11 PM
Thank you for the hints and help
#3 employed a type of radiation later favored by hippies.
Could it be Neon Black Light?
Black light is the right kind of radiation...
1950's?
Yes!
Generic or for specific marque?
Quote from: Oguerrerob on September 09, 2016, 04:53:28 AM
Generic or for specific marque?
Aftermarket accessory, for most any car.
3. Did this ad appear in a popular magazine?
Yes, at least one.
I've found it!
3. Polarvision Safety Light 1953
At last, it is done. :)
The points:
Tom_I 5
Oguerrerob 6
bentleybob 1
whcgt 1
Well done!
whcgt was banned of course about 4 years ago so I'm not sure you can give him a point... (he is back as ValkyrieGT of course so you could always give it to him instead!)
I haven't seen bentleybob on site for many a moon...
Quote from: Carnut on September 12, 2016, 05:56:02 AM
I haven't seen bentleybob on site for many a moon...
No, more's the pity - he used to post some interesting puzzles, didn't he?
Yes, he seems to like it here and fitted in well.
He last visited back in April this year.
Quote from: Carnut on September 12, 2016, 02:45:50 PM
Yes, he seems to like it here and fitted in well.
He last visited back in April this year.
Yes but he hasn't posted for nearly three years. What did he find when he visited that put him off, I wonder?