Three-Wheeled "Dymaxion" Demonstrates on the Square

A strange looking, 19-foot, rodent-like vehicle meandered up and down on Massachusetts Avenue in the neighborhood of the Square on Saturday morning. Curious onlookers were informed that the unique machine was a "dymaxion," the solid steel, berth-equipped automobile of the future.

The dymaxion, invented by Buckminster Fuller '17 and built by Phillip C. Pearson '18, has the appearance of an airplane without wings: it contains a Ford V-8 engine, and is supported by only three wheels, two in the front and one in the rear. The original dymaxion had a wooden body, and was wrecked in an accident on its maiden trip to Chicago. Its descendant, however, has an all steel body and cannot be smashed in, it weighs 3600 pounds, has a 182 inch wheelbase, and will turn in an 11 foot circle. One of the cars, which sell for $6500, was recently purchased by Leopold Stokowski, of the Philadelphia Symphony orchestra.