Thanks, Carleton,
Hm. So whether or not the average beat cop was armed was up to the local jurisdiction? (Officially armed, that is, issued with a weapon or required to buy one himself. I expect some of them might well have tucked a .32 away in a pocket, like today's cops with "hideaway" or "boot" guns.)
Oh, and when I said "trunk," I mean a storage space of the kind we have today, integrated into the body -- not the steamer trunk attached to brackets and projecting over the rear bumper. Is that the kind you meant? Or did you mean that integrated rear storage was only found on custom bodies? I need a car that could have had room to store a full-sized male human, folded up if necessary. A custom Packard roadster?
Here's what I think is a Hudson or Essex Terraplane:
http://www.kitfoster.com/images/2006-3-8_TerraTrunkWeb-Large.jpg But somehow I don't see that trunk as big enough for a person!
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