Innovations

Many people only think of the depression when they thinok of the 30's. It dominates our cultural memory of the age. but there was something else that came out of the 30's.

There was renewed interest in mechanical innovation in 1930s cars that was not present in the 20's. The whole decade experienced a leap forward in automotive design and technical sophistication that benefits the car industry to this very day. It was 1930s cars that saw the introduction of automatic chocks, gearshifts on the sheering column, smoothly shifting transmissions, trunks that were built into the car and hydraulic brakes. It is hard to imagine a car without these features being produced today. It makes these improvements even more impressive. so many important design features came out of the 1930s car industry its hard not to wonder where we would be without that decade. .