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Edgar Rice Burroughs & the Automobile II:
ERB's Fictional Cars
Part Two
Continued From Part One

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 The Lad and the Lion
(Written: February-March 1914)

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<>Royal automobiles come and go often in this story about intrigue in a mythical European kingdom. After his father was assassinated, his grandson and apparent heir to the throne, was spirited from the palace in one of the “royal motors” and transported out of the kingdom for his protection. <> Count Sarnya, previously one of the king’s closest counselors, then took precautions to protect himself.<>
“Ordinarily he left by the postern door, but today he had order one of the palace motors to meet him inside the gates. His own car and police guard waited at the postern gate. Count Sarnya was keeping a rendezvous that he did not wish even his own police to know about.”

<>Ten years later, Ferdinand, son of the kingdom’s puppet king, used the “royal motors” to help him carry on an affair with Hilda de Groot, the daughter of royal gardener. Hans de Groot knew Ferdinand was taking advantage of his sister.
<>“He saw a girl and two men enter a limousine and drive away. The girl was Hilda, and one of the men was Ferdinand … The car stopped in the city and picked up the pretty daughter of a cobbler; then it drove on out into the country to the hunting lodge in the woods.”
<>Eventually, Hilda’s method of transportation made people start to wonder how her family could afford it.
<><>“When people saw Hilda come home for a visit with her mother, as she did when her father was away, they would have thought Martin de Groot must be making a great deal of money; for Hilda rode in a beautiful English car with a chauffeur and footman.”

The affair became public after King Otto was assassinated and Ferdinand became king.
“Hilda had two new motors and many magnificent jewels.” She didn’t enjoy driving her cars, however. “When I drove today, some people hissed at me; when I passed the cemetery, I saw a man digging a grave.” The sight was prophetic. The next car Hilda rode in was a hearse.

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<>The Man-eater
(Written: May-June 1915)
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<>In The Man-eater, Burroughs used an automobile in a most unusual way — as the setting for the story’s culminating action. Passing over the strange circumstances that brought all the major characters together, the final scene opened one night with a chauffeur driving Mrs. Scott and her daughter Virginia home to the family’s Virginia mansion. A quarter mile from its destination, the car came to a stop. ERB, perhaps drawing from the breakdowns of his own autos, described how the chauffeur analyzed the problem.
“Getting down from his seat and raising one side of the bonnet … he fussed about between the engine and the control board, trying first the starter and then the horn. ‘Ah guess we-all blowed a fuse,’ he announced presently. ‘Have you others, or must we walk the rest of the way?’ inquired Mrs. Scott. ‘Oh, yasm, Ah got some right year,’ and he raised the cushion from the driver’s seat and thrust his hand into the box beneath. For a moment he fumbled about in search of an extra fuse plug.”
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<>As he clipped the new fuse plug in place, making the car ready to run again, the chauffeur noticed something emerging from the darkness and moving toward the car — a lion. The driver bolted to the side of the road, jumped a fence, and disappeared, leaving the two women to deal with the lion. Virginia considered their options."
“Should she and her mother leave the machine and attempt to escape, or were they safer where they were? The lion could easily track them should he care to do so after they had left the car. On the other hand, the strange and unusual vehicle might be sufficient safeguard in itself to keep off a nervous jungle beast.”

<>Meanwhile, the lion was considering his options as well.
“He did not like the looks of this strange thing. What was it? He would investigate. The beast was beside the car now. Leisurely, he placed a forepaw on the running board and raised himself until his giant head topped the side of the tonneau.”
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<>Enter Dick Gordon, courageous hero. While distracting the lion, he cried out asking Virginia if she knew how to drive. When she responded, “Yes,” Gordon commanded, “Then climb over and drive. Drive anywhere just as fast as you can.”
“The girl clambered over into the driver’s seat and started the engine. With the whir of the starter (the lion) wheeled about with a low snarl, but in an instant the girl drew the speed lever back into low, pressed down on the accelerator, let in the clutch, and the car shot forward. Still the lion seemed in doubt. He took a few steps toward the car, which he could easily reach in a single bound.”

<>At that instant, Gordon distracted the beast, allowing the two women to drive safely away.
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<>The Rider
(Written: October-December 1915)
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<>In the European principality of Karlova, the adventurous Prince Boris wanted to avoid an arranged marriage with the daughter of the King of nearby Margoth. His solution was to trade places for a week with the country’s notorious highwayman known as The Rider. The outlaw, dressed in the prince’s military uniform, rode in the first of many automobiles in the story. A French limousine carried him down a flower-strewn boulevard into Demia, the capital city of nearby Margoth. In the crowd along the boulevard, the real Prince Boris, incognito, met American Hemmington Main, who had come to Europe to track down love-interest Gwendolyn Bass, whose mother had taken her on a tour of Europe to keep Main from courting her daughter.

<>In one of those wondrous coincidences that ERB used so much in his stories, Main just happened to spot the Bass automobile arriving in the city at the same time the Karlovian French limo drove by.                                                                                     
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“An automobile, a large touring car, honked noisily out of a side street and crossed toward the hotel entrance. Main chanced to be looking down into the street at the time. With an excited exclamation he half rose from his chair. ‘There they are!’ he whispered. “The car drew up before the hotel and stopped. Two maids alighted, followed by a young girl and a white haired woman.”

Meanwhile, Princess Mary of Margoth decided to avoid the supposed Prince of Karlova. “The open car, Stefan,” she instructed her aid. “The old one without the arms, and take me west on the Roman road.” Before leaving town, though, the princess decided to stop at the hotel where her American friend Gwendolyn Bass was staying.

<>Meanwhile, Prince Boris, incognito, hatched a scheme to help Main hook up with Gwendolyn so that he could propose to her. Unfortunately, Boris wound up hijacking Princess Mary’s car instead of the Bass car, leading to multiple automobile scenes in the Margothian countryside through the remainder of the story. Below is one example.
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<>“Slowly the big car wound its way up the steep grade. The gears, meshed in second speed, protested loudly, while the exhaust barked in sympathy through an open muffler. Stefan, outwardly calm, was inwardly boiling, as was the water in the radiator before him threatening to do. Silent, but none the less sincere, were the curses where with he cursed the fate which had compelled him to drive “the old car” up Vitza grade which the new car took in high with only a gentle purring.
<>“Almost at the summit there is a curve about a projecting shoulder of rock, and at this point the grade is steepest. More and more slowly the old car moved when it reached this point — there came from the steel and aluminum lungs a few consumptive coughs which racked the car from bumper to tail light, and as Stefan shifted quickly from second to low the wheels almost stopped, and at the same instant a horseman reined quickly into the center of the road before them, a leveled revolver pointing straight through the frail windshield at the unprotected breast of the astonished Stefan.

“One single burst of speed and both horse and man would be ridden down. The gears were in low, the car was just at a standstill. Stefan pressed his foot upon the accelerator and let in the clutch. The car should have jumped forward and crushed the life from the presumptuous bandit; but it did nothing of the sort. Instead, it gave voice to a pitiful choking sound, and died.”

Hemmington Main’s romantic automobile-filled plans to find and marry Gwendolyn Bass were successfully concluded at the story’s end.

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The Oakdale Affair

January-June, 1917
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<>In ERB’s chronologically challenged novella, The Oakdale Affair, the initial event in the three-day storyline is first revealed halfway through the second chapter/
<> <>“Reginald Paynter was dead. His body had been found beside the road just outside the city limits at midnight by a party of automobilists returning from a fishing trip. The skull was crushed back of the left ear. The position of the body, as well as the marks in the road beside it indicated that the man had been hurled from a rapidly moving automobile.”
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<>That same evening, Abigail Prim, the “spinster” 19-year-old daughter of Oakdale’s prominent banker, disappeared from her parents’ home. The town’s citizens viewed the two events as somehow interlinked, since Abigail and Reginald were old friends. On frequent occasions she had “ridden abroad in Reginald’s French roadster.” That evening, though, Abigail was not with Reginald. Instead, in a desperate attempt to escape her dreary life, she had stuffed her pockets with cash, disguised herself as a boy, and headed out into the adventurous world claiming to be the criminal “Oskaloosa Kid.” After teaming up with the philosophical drifter, Bridge, the two witnessed a scary automobile incident.

 

“Bridge, turning, saw a brilliant light flaring through the night above the crest of the hill they had just topped in their descent into the small valley, where stood the crumbling house of Squibbs. The purr of a rapidly moving motor rose above the rain … As the car swung onto the straight road before the house a flash of lightning revealed dimly the outlines of a rapidly moving touring car with lowered top. Just as the machine came opposite the Squibbs’ gate a woman’s scream mingled with the report of a pistol from the tonneau and the watchers upon the verandah saws a dark hulk hurled from the car, which sped on with undiminished speed, climbed the hill beyond and disappeared from view. Bridge started on a run toward the gateway, followed by the frightened Kid. In the ditch beside the road they found in a disheveled heap the body of a young woman.”

                                                                                               

The young woman, Hettie Penning, survived and joined an aggregate of characters shuffled back-and-forth throughout the night in various automobiles between the towns of Oakdale and Payton. Passengers in the crowded cars included Bridge, Abigail Prim (disguised as the “Oskaloosa Kid”), a gang of felonious hoboes (Dopey Charlie, Soup Face, Sky Pilot, and The General), Abigail’s father, Chicago Detective Dick Burton, half a dozen sheriff deputies, and a dozen carloads of indignant citizens looking for a lynching. Eventually, Miss Penning explained how some Oakdale lowlifes killed Reginald Paynter and threw his body out of their speeding car shortly before they tried to do the same to her. Other than Reginald’s “French roadster,” the only other specific type of car mentioned in The Oakdale Affair is the large “touring car” used by Detective Burton and his crew of Chicago cops.               

                                                     

<>Tarzan the Untamed
(Written: August 1918–September 1919)

Only one automobile appears in Tarzan the Untamed, and for this one, ERB specified the make. While British Colonel Capell and Lieutenant Thompson discussed a rescue mission to find a British pilot missing in West Africa, “a big Vauxhall drew up in front of the headquarters of the Second Rhodesians.” The vehicle carried British General Smut to a conference with Colonel Capell. Vauxhall Motors was then, and still is, a British maker of motor vehicles.

 

<>The Efficiency Expert
(Written: Sept.-Oct. 1919)

In the summer of 1915, a flat tire and a beautiful woman gave Jimmy Torrance the self-esteem boost he needed to continue trying to make something of himself in Chicago.  The left front tire of Miss Elizabeth Compton’s car was flat. Burroughs explained, “There was an extra wheel on the rear of the roadster, but it was heavy and cumbersome, and the girl knew from experience what a dirty job changing a wheel is. She had just about decided to drive home on the rim when a young man crossed the walk from Erie Street.” Jimmy asked if he could help her. “It looks like a new casing,” he observed. “It would be too bad to ruin it. If you have a spare I will be very glad to change it for you.” After Miss Compton thanked him for changing the tire, Jimmy stood on the curb and watched as she drove away.

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<>Later in the story, three people, two cars, and a motorcycle participate in a scene important to Jimmy Torrance’s future. It started when two taxis drew up side-by-side in front of a Chicago roadhouse. The Lizard, a pickpocket and safecracker, got out of one taxi and joined Little Eva, a lady of the evening, in the back seat of the other cab. Jimmy had made friends with both characters. After agreeing to get some “papers” that would be helpful to Jimmy, The Lizard got back in his cab, just as a motorcycle policeman pulled up beside it. When The Lizard ordered the driver to “Beat it, bo!’ the taxicab leaped forward, accelerating rapidly. Also wanting to avoid the cops, Eva ordered her cab driver to, “Go on to Elmhurst, and then come back to the city on the St. Charles Road.”

 

<>The Girl From Hollywood
(Written: November 1921–January 1922)
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<>Burroughs characterization of the youthful Eva Pennington began with her impetuousness while driving a car.
“Now the chauffeur was taking her bag and carrying it to the roadster that she would drive home along the wide, straight boulevard that crossed the valley — utterly ruining a number of perfectly good speed laws … The headlights of a motor car turned in at the driveway … With a rush the car topped the hill, swung up the driveway, and stopped at the corner of the house. A door flew open, and the girl leaped from the driver’s seat.”
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<>Her brother, Custer Pennington, also could be careless behind the wheel, but for a different reason. When he had been drinking, he tended to swing “the roadster around the curves of the driveway leading down the hill a bit more rapidly than usual.” Custer next appeared driving the Pennington roadster in Los Angles. He had requested that it be sent to the city and parked in a garage for him to use the day he was released from jail. After first stopping to visit Grace Evans, a close family friend, Custer headed north to rejoin his family at their valley home.
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<>“Custer found them waiting for him on the east porch as he drove up to the ranch house. The new freedom and the long drive over the beautiful highway through the clear April sunshine, with the green hills at his left and the lovely valley spread out upon his right hand, to some extent alleviated the depression that had followed the shock of his interview with Grace; and when he alighted from the car he seemed quite his normal self again.”

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<>After learning from Custer about his sister Grace’s problems, Guy Evans’ drove along the same highway back to LA in a decidedly different state of mind<>.
“Guy Evans swept over the broad, smooth highway at a rate that would have won him ten days in the jail at Santa Ana had his course led him through that village … When he approached the bungalow on Circle Terrace, and saw a coupé standing at the curb, he guessed at what it portended; for though there were doubtless hundreds of similar cars in the city, there was that about this one which suggested the profession of its owner.” It belonged to a doctor.
<>After he learned that movie producer Wilson Crumb had been the cause of Grace’s disgrace and death, Guy resolved to kill him. When Guy came upon Crumb standing by his broken down car one evening, he revenged his sister.
<>“He rode to the mouth of Jackknife, and saw the lights of Crumb’s car up near El Camino Largo … He rode up to where Crumb was attempting to crank his engine. Evidently the starter had failed to work, for Crumb was standing in front of the car, in the glare of the headlights, attempting to crank it. Guy accosted him, charged him with the murder of Grace, and shot him.”
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Marcia of the Doorstep

(Written: April-October 1924)
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<>Edgar Rice Burroughs revealed his knowledge of different makes and styles of automobiles in the text of Marcia of the Doorstep, the only story he wrote in 1924. For instance, listen to the conversation between Marcia Sackett and her fiancé as they enjoy a ride in the Steele Ford that his father had loaned him for the day.
<>“When we’re married,” Dick was saying, “we’ll buy a classy little roadster like that maroon one that just passed.”
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<>“Oh, let’s have a Pierce,” cried Marcia, “it don’t cost any more to drive a dream Pierce than a dream Buick, and they are so much more satisfying.”
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<>“Why not a Rolls-Royce, then?” he inquired.
<>"I don’t care for foreign built cars,” the girl announced, as one who has given a subject much expert consideration.
<>“Oh, wouldn’t it be great to be rich, Marcia,” he cried, “and be able to buy any kind of car you wanted?”
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You Lucky Girl!

(Written: 1927)
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<>While no actual cars appear in this play that Edgar Rice Burroughs wrote for his daughter Joan, the plot is based on competition for obtaining two car dealerships in the Midwest city of Millidge. Bill Mason is a 29-year-old owner of a small garage and repair shop who wants to purchase a local agency to sell the new Gormley Six automobile. He’s convinced it’s “going to be the biggest selling car in this country inside of a year.” Bill explains to his good friend Corrie West that, unfortunately, he doesn’t have the $10,000 needed to invest in the agency.
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<>Jumping forward three years in the play, the audience learns that Bill and his father have not only found the money somewhere to buy the Gormley Six agency, but also a second car dealership. That brings Bill into conflict with Phil Mattis, the well-healed son of the town’s banker.
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<>Phil to Bill: “Well, listen. You succeeded in getting the agency for the Gormley Six away from me last year. I don’t know how you did it, but you did it. All right, you won that time. I don’t know where you got the money and I’m not asking. You seem to have taken in a lot of new capital since your father resigned at the bank and went into business with you, but that is neither here nor there. What I am up here to see you about is the Packard agency. Your father knew that I wanted that and just today I had a wire from the factory saying that they were closing negotiations with another dealer here. I know that means you.”

Bill:  “You are correct.”

Phil: “I want that Packard agency and I want the Gormley Six back, too. I have my own reason for wanting them and I can afford to buy what I want. I have come up here to buy those two agencies.”

Bill: “They are not for sale.”

At the end of the play, the audience learns where the money came from to finance Bill’s car dealerships. His father tells Bill that Corrie West, who had since become a successful actress, provided the needed money and thereby became a silent partner in Mason & Mason Automobiles.

 

< style="font-weight: bold;">Calling All Cars
(Written: June 1931)
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<>The appearance of the word “cars” in this ERB short story tips the reader off that cars play a part in the plot. The suspense begins late one night when Maddox, a servant in a mansion on a Hollywood hilltop, hears the humming of gears, indicating “a car was coming up the hill in second.” Unsure about the reason any car would be climbing up the hill road at that time of night, Maddox called the police.z
“Presently the car came in sight, grinding slowly up the grade. Maddox could see that it was a dark colored sedan and that there were two people in the front seat. The car drew directly into the curb in front of the house and stopped … As they got out of the car the light from a street lamp fell upon them, revealing a hatless young man in grey coat and white trousers. He was about five feet ten, and his companion, a young woman, was perhaps five inches shorter.”

Meanwhile, Maddox’s call to the police drew a response.
“From far below them, somewhere out of that vast network of city streets, rose faintly the weird wail of a police siren. Gradually it rose in volume as the car raced west on Sunset Boulevard. Presently they caught occasional glimpses of its red spotlight as it flashed by open spaces in the traffic. Like the hopeless plaint of a lost soul, its raucous screech cleft the night.”

<>The man and woman, who had reached the top of the hill in the first car, leaned over a railing in front of the mansion and watched the police car approach.
<>“It flashed into view on the visible stretches of the winding canyon road below them — a red-eyed demon of the night, appearing and disappearing as it roared its shrieking way around the innumerable curves and shoulders of the ascent. With an expiring wail the siren suddenly went dumb. The car drew into the curb and three officers leaped out. Two of them walked briskly toward the Gothic entrance, the other remained by the car.”

It turned out that the two cars played minor roles in the story’s plot. For Burroughs the two motor vehicles were simply “literary vehicles” to get the characters to the hilltop mansion, where the people in both cars became involved in solving a murder mystery.

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Pirate Blood
(Written: February-May 1932)
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<>Johnny Lafitte, the hero of Pirate Blood, tells the story in the first person. Although he was a star athlete in college, Johnny was a poor student who couldn’t find a high-paying job after graduating. Early on in the story he worked as a police officer. Below he gives the details of a particular stop he made of a speeding driver.z
“I’d been handing out tickets on the state highway just outside town until I almost had writer’s cramp. I was sitting on my machine in a little hide-out on a side road waiting for the next victim, when a great big, flashy roadster with the top down streaked by at about seventy … About the only people in town who drove cars like that were members of that country club. And I was right. The car was slowing down to make the turn into the entrance to the club grounds when I pulled up alongside and motioned it over to the side of the road.
<>“As I left my machine and walked toward the side of the roadster I was reaching into my inside pocket for my book without looking up at the driver. When I did, I saw it was a girl (Daisy Juke) … I was leaning close to her, my heart full of love, she was a thousand miles away from me — the chassis of the car she drove cost sixteen thousand dollars without any body … She asked me to come and see her, and I promised that I would; then she started up and turned up the driveway of the country club — where I could only go as a cop. I didn’t write any more tickets that day.”

 

<>Tarzan and the Lion Man
(Written: February-May 1933)
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<>The storyline is structured around a Hollywood studio’s expedition in Africa to obtain film scenes for use in a “jungle movie.” The actors and crew were sent to Africa with a fleet of 28 motor vehicles to film in the Ituri Forest. Included were a generator truck, two sound trucks, 20 five-ton supply trucks, and five passenger cars.  ERB didn’t mention much about the 23 trucks, but one of the cars had a role in the action. Burroughs didn’t mention the make or type of the cars, but they must have been heavy-duty vehicles to manage the off-road route taken by the expedition.

The car seen most often in the story is the one carrying Naomi Madison, the film’s female lead, and Rhonda Terry, her stand-in. The girls’ hand baggage was in their car’s backseat and a makeup bag was upfront with them.

Three times a flurry of arrows was launched at the film company by warriors of the Bansuto tribe. During the attacks, Naomi Madison screamed and crouched upon the floor of her car, even fainting once. Rhonda Terry, however, fought back. During the first attack, she stood with one foot on the running board, a pistol in her hand.
.” During the second attack, Rhonda stepped out of the car, joining the men in all the other cars looking for attackers to fire at.” During a third attack, the natives rushed Naomi and Rhonda’s car. Again, “Naomi Madison slipped to the floor of the car.” As a dozen men with rifles rushed to defend the girls, “Rhonda drew her revolver and fired into the faces of the onrushing blacks.” The film company finally got the footage it needed, and the five cars were part of the “long caravan” of vehicles that Tarzan watched heading out of Africa and back to Hollywood.

<>The final chapter of Tarzan and the Lion Man finds Tarzan in Hollywood a year after the events earlier in the story. The city’s environment, including its many automobiles, depressed the ape-man.
<><>“He saw many people riding in cars or walking on the cement sidewalks and the suggestion of innumerable people in the crowded, close built shops and residences; and he felt more alone than he ever had before in all his life.”
<>When a couple of Hollywood troublemakers invited him to go to a party with them, the curious Tarzan agreed. He thought the circuitous route they were taking to the party seemed strange, but he didn’t realize he was about to crash a party with them.
<>“On a side street near Franklin they climbed into a flashy roadster. Brouke drove west a few blocks on Franklin and then turned up a narrow street that wound into the hills. Presently they came to the end of the street. ‘Hell!’ muttered Brouke and turned the car around. He turned into another street and followed that a few blocks; then he turned back toward Franklin. On a side street in an otherwise quiet neighborhood they sighted a brilliantly lighted house in front of which several cars were parked; laughter and the sounds of radio music were coming from an open window. ‘This looks like the place,’ said Reece. ‘It is,’ said Brouke with a grin, and drew up at the curb.”

When he heard the sirens, Tarzan decided he’d forego riding back to town in a police car. Instead, he jumped out an upstairs window into a tree and disappeared.

 

<>Tarzan and the Lost Empire
(Written: March-May 1928)
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<>A look back at a humorous reference to contemporary automobiles is a good way to conclude this study of cars in ERB’s fiction. Since the “lost cities” that Tarzan encountered were inevitably frozen in time long before the internal combustion engine was invented, 20th century automobiles were never found there. In fact, citizens of those lost cities couldn’t even conceive of modern cars, as Erich von Harben discovered in Tarzan and the Lost Empire.
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<>Obviously, there were no motorized vehicles in Castrum Mare, a Roman city that had not advanced technologically in the two millennia since it was founded in a secluded location in Central Africa. However, Burroughs obviously had some fun when he had his 20th century character, Erich von Harben, try to explain the characteristics of the modern automobile. During a conversation while he and Mallius Lepus were riding on a slave-carried litter, von Harben told his friend that many changes had occurred in modern Rome. Lepus responded,
“But certainly that could have been no great change in the style of litters, and I can’t believe that the patricians have ceased to use them.” Von Harben then struggled to describe motorized vehicles to the incredulous Roman. Some excerpts from that conversation:

Erich: “Their litters travel on wheels now.”

Mallius: “Incredible! It would be torture to bump over the rough pavement and country roads on the great wooded wheels of ox-carts.”

Erich: “The city pavements are smooth today and the countryside is cut in all directions by wide, level highways over which the litters of the modern citizens of Rome roll at great speeds with small wheels with soft tires.”

Mallius: “I warrant you that there be no litters in all Rome that move at greater speed than this … better than eighty-five hundred paces an hour.”

Erich: “Fifty thousand paces an hour is nothing unusual for the wheeled litters of today. We call them automobiles.”

Mallius: “You are going to be a great success. Tell (the guests of Septimus Favonius) that there be litter-carriers in Rome today who can run fifty thousand paces in an hour and they will acclaim you the greatest entertainer as well as the great liar Castrum Mare has ever seen.”

Erich: “I never said that there were litter-bearers who could run fifty-thousand paces an hour.”

Mallius: “But did you not assure me that the litters traveled that fast? Perhaps the litters of today are carried by horses. Where are the horses that can run fifty thousand paces in an hour?”

Erich: “The litters are neither carried nor drawn by horses or men, Mallius.”

Mallius: “They fly then, I presume. By Hercules, you must tell this all over again to Septimus Favonius. I promise you that he will love you.”

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ERB poses with his new 1937 Packard on the docks at Vancouver, Canada.
 In early October 1938, Burroughs and his wife sailed from Honolulu to Vancouver to pickup the new automobile waiting for them there.
 In an article in the Seattle Post-Intelligencer on October 7, 1938, ERB indicated that he and his wife
would "tour the coast" as they drove the new Packard to their home in Southern California.

— the end —

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