Delia the Motor Duck

���THOUSANDS of bathers at a famous beach near San Francisco were re- centl}^ astonished to see a rakish- looking automobile drive down the beach and into the water. Instead of immediately disap- pearing beneath the waves, the automoble rode high over the swells, and still moving rapidly, took a short cruise around the harbor, after which it came ashore and disap- peared as suddenly as it had appeared.

���If you owned "Delia" and you came to a stream you would plunge boldly in and swim with the aid of the propeller to the opposite shore. Then you would climb the bank and ride on wheels over roads again

A closer inspection of this remarkable machine reveals the fact that it has a boat body, through which project the automobile wheels. When used as a boat the power is transferred from the driving wheels to a propeller in the stern, and the steering wheel actuates the rud- der instead of the front wheels.

AA^'ater is prevented from entering the body at the points where the axles pro-

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