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!(-LENN H. CURTISS, as early as 1922;-was dreaming about and work- i.` l •
ing a bit on•an'autoinobile trailer. The late airplane inventor • ' Since placing the first Curtiss
wanted a car that would be light,yet strong. He foresaw,. du see,count-
t less miles of good highways in thp,Llnited "y , Aerocar ambulance in service this
States,and a resulting desire to travel. •r ' " ,-, ri! week, the Philbrick Funeral-Home
There was a bus, very crude,.too, made �`Q"V/I M y has had it in almost•constant use '
rat•Hammondsport, �l. Y.; abogt 1926. {That �, v0
toss Curtiss' home town so he had a hand, I- moving persons who were: serious-
lin ily. ill, and physicians are loud in
in it and brought one here to be used be- *...,.WIT • • t,
•tween Opa-Locka and Miami. He was then , s s,, �, , their praise of.'the easy•.riding
pushing the development of Opa-Locka. 6 qualities of the:car. The car is
MIAMI• . �
Then came the, Curtiss Aerocar Com-
pany at Opa-Locka. And after that,:follow- ••.4.A (powered with a-Buick'coupe, pilot;
ing the lead of Curtiss, came these thouspnds • •
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up n thousands of trailers you see all over'
QQ For the convenience of physi
America today. .The first was' built at ' • L•IV. - • ' K '` cians and for emergency use the.
f Opa-Locka, Fla.
Aerocar de luxe ambulance is.
The.Curtiss Company oak made up of Curtiss, Hugh Robirison, jr.,
who hail flown.the first Curtiss hydroplane, and L. K. Slepow. :The nipped with a sterilizer, hot ands
, •who
wheel" patent, Slepow will cold'running water.,pnd ice.water.i
• tell you..now—he's the only one of
Hot
Ctis large enough to carry several
Hot Springs the original trio left with the corn- g g }
pany—is the only one that has Iiassengers in:addition to;the'pa-
Ends Gam.blinokept the Curtiss car distinctive. It's would,� ient, If the'need arises. •'
a small rubber-tired Wheel which
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b lies flat in the back of the automo• w'orct r The Philbrick Funeral Nome.is
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• bile. It rests on.five rubber discs 'cabinet he pioneer funeral, service of.
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which absorb the up-and-down toward 'Coral Gables..and in. addition to
HOT SPRINGS. irk:, Oct. 18.— shock. Then there's `a steel rim with the { F
All gambling Factivity in Hot around the tire, which absorbs incided
the main home at 660'West _lag-
!Springs, Ouchita mountain health pressure of whip and sidesWay. Althodtl 'ler Street,' Miami,I_maintains a 4
;and pleasure.resort,was suspended And that patent has ;stood up resented complete funeral home at Miami .
Saturday as bookmakers.and other's against imitation. • ' Beach. The aerocar ambulance is
acted in unison following a reported h° Stock Trailers stationed at the Miami home., Five.
t The •company doesn't put out ,
{second ultimatum from Gov. Ho- stock trailers,. everything being Packard. ambulances are regular
mer M. Adkins. . . made to order.As a result—they'reequipment of the Philbrick homes,
Bookmakers closed ,their .six not cheaply built, you see—the 800 ,a,„,..„6' ;and one of them is always avail-
Capitol avenue establishments at 'cars put out since 1927 all are stili `� able at each of .the three homes.
in use. Ninety per cent of the con . "�
noon, announcing that the,action struction is patterned after airplane D. R, Hughes is manager of the
iplaced 125 persons without jobs. building. Unusually strong.wood i ; Coral Gables Philbrick home. , ,
Officials of Club Belvedere, na- steel wire braces and light fabric >a• ' W. L. Philbrick established the V
tionally known racing and gam- covering make the cars perhaps ,Philbricic Funeral•Home.in Miami �•
bung center, declared that its 50 per cent lighter than other trail
icasino would remain closed Satur- ers the sane size. nine years ago. The home at
day night ' ' By 1931 the company was in :,. " Miami Beach was opened six years •
? More•.than a month ago Gover- creasing production steadily, but > ago,,and the one.at Coral.Gables ;
nor Adkins declared he would use .Mr. Curtiss .died that year and . t was opened)four a o. He
' ;state forces to. stop all gahnbling things didn't move on as they had , years g 1
•activity-in Arkansas if local au- When Henry L. Doherty bought believes that he has one of the
'it -thorities•failed.to.enforce anti-gars- the Miami Biltmore hotel, he also finest and most complete funeral l
1 bling laws. 4' bought the aerocar compahy, and :homes in the South. He is presi-
w It still is owned by his estate. A re-.
Punchboard Drive cent reorganization, however,• has dent of the company. H. C. Town- 1
• 1 placed Slepow in charge as general .. send is general manager.
' Brings 4 Arrests manager. • •
j The company's best known work .
iThree men and a woman were was the 17 cars built for tine Miami
arrested Saturday night by W. W. Biltmore and Roney Plaza Hotel ,
1I Davenport and Jesse Campbell, run, in 1931. They'relall going yet
1 city vice raiders;on charges of pos- with no sign of breaking down. toward i
1, sessing punch boards. The sus- Two years ago the original motor cials hos
11 pects, released on bonds of-$50 each, cars bought for that fleet of trucks eign mut
11 are Burton A. Anderson, 32, of ',..ere replaced,after they had been moderat
3038 S. W. Eighth street; Lewis driven 250,000 miles each. These Axis ties
Sarras,43,of 2700 W.Flagler street; Florida Year Round club cars are beach tq�
reida Speiser, 45, of 1807 S. W. in use 18 hours a day all winter, by its fi
Eighth street and Donald J., Mc- each making the 25-mile round trip Hot
1 Glynn, 24, of 2710 S. W. ,Eighth 12' times. That's 300 miles a day', Bellige
street.' which adds up. diplomat'
theirs cad,rated at better than 400 • Build $28,000 Aerocar' ` ` and Japi
P Most costly of all the Curtiss con- permitte
riles an hour,plus the auxiliary gas- tracts was a $28,000 affair built last official t
Me tanks, enables them to ;make year for Dr. Hubert Eaton of Glen- tries, on
hop to San Juan with a margin dale and Santa Monica, Calif- The This
11 safety. automobile is a custom-built body have ha
1'flight, the P-39s produce the on a truck chassis and. accommo• val mini
3st sound of any plane the army dates a maid and butler, in addition that the
FIs,an officer of the ferry squad- to the driver.The trailei has sleep- ing, for
a pointed out as one came in for ing quarters for four,bath,kitchen, some 1
!' landing Saturday. The four- dressing room, and there's an ob• this cc
Bladed propeller spanking the air, servation flatform forward, from icy to
plus the high'whine of the gear which one can look over the auto, Sere
mechanism which drives the air and in any other direction,as well. brask:
screw and the exhaust from the Slepow just refused a United clam.
"suped-u'p" Allison engine, combine States government request to build such
to create an effect as startling as 5,200 trailers costing $750 each.: ens-'
an' entire 'squadron of Hitler's The plant isn't equipped to handle "I
Stukas, he,added. - , small cheap construction. The goy- Jap:
• In addition to being rated "tops; ernment, he says, is meeting•the rat
.by the United States Army Air housing shortage around big de- Th
;,Corps,the Airacobras recently were' fense,plants by renting trailers to Ur
,.described by pilots of the first,RAF workmen at$8 monthly. :-r . wl
(squadron in Britain to which they i The trailer b u s i n e s s which to
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� were sent as "better than-anything sprang up from Curtiss' original m
,we or the Germans have irk opera- work at Opa-Locka, is_enjoying
`tion:' • • - •• the biggest boom in its history,
The' Canadian, South African, Slepow says.Thousands upon thou- Til
IEnglish,.-Czech and New Zealand sands of workers,moving from one B
'ilots of the squadron reported they big defense job to another, are buy-
, vere•confident the Airacobras could ing trailers, living 'in them and
est the famed German Messer- then moving on to another job e
'hmitt 109F, adding, "we are when one ends.They're solving the r
ixious to tangle with the Nazis housing shortage in economical, 11
these new planes." fashion. • do,
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