THURSDAY, APRIL 5, 1928.
NEW DESIGNS.
WHAT PACKARD COMPANY ARE DOING.
CONTINUAL SEARCH.
tested.
CAR OFFERS UNUSUAL FEATURES,
Many of the things which have THE NEW KNIGHT. been brought out in Europe this year and which have been much acclaimed there never would be accepted here because of their complicated natures. America in- sists upon cars that are just as simple, as they can be made. People in the United States more
JUST SHEWN.
THE CHINA MAIL,
THE CAR OF TO-DAY.
AUTOMOBILE MANUFACTURERS'
RESEARCH.
MANY TESTS.
How will the motor car of, to-
and more are taking the mechani- The new Willys-Knight Standard cal parts of their cars for grant-Six Coach is an important addition day act under different conditions?
They are beginning to to the 1928 group ed.
of the new That's the question that is dla Knight engined cars which are
covered on the 1245 acre tract just understand also that simplicity of design keeps their cars out of the being presented this year. Judging outside of Detroit which belongs service station, cutting down ser-from the interest being displayed to the General Motors Corporation vice bills and reducing the time in this new 6-passenger model, it and which is known as their Prov- they must forgo having their
bids fair to become one of the ing Ground. automobile transportation in-
There, all different makes of) most popular of this line of cars stantly availablę,
which is the lowest priced line of cars are put through every imagin- Willys-Knight six cylinder cars able kind of test from the most ever introduced.
gruelling to the most ordinary, This two-door model is distinc-and all results are carefully check-
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Complicated Mechanism.
Complicated things are easy to design and build and particularly
tively individual in the Standard ed up and tabulated. is that so with motor ears, The Six price class, embodying all the It is the modern way of research really hard task is the designing exclusive features usually found for the automobile manufacturer. selling in a higher The former method and the one and building of simplicity into so only in cars
still in use by a large percentage inherently a complicated piece of price range.
The new Willys-Knight Standard of manufacturers is the road test mechanism as a motor car. When an American automotive engineer Six Coach has smart dashing body testing cars out on the highway is faced with the problem of mak-lines, an exterior colour combina-or on race tracks. It is not as ing one piece do the work two for- tion that bespeaks richness and in--satisfactory or as thorough as those merly performed in an engine and terior appointments which
carry gone through on the Proving
do it far better, he has a task out a quality tone that is noticeable Ground. which is at least as difficult as throughout." making two blades of grass grow
There has been considerable discussion recently of somewhat radical departures from conven, tional designs' seen frequently in Europe. The public here does not realise that American motor car builders are renching out con- tinuously for new things and are making cars just as radical or even more so than anything found in Europe, says Col. J. G. Vincent, of the Packard Motor Car Com- pany (Dragon Motor Car Co., local agents).
The difference is that in Europe the public tries out the new things while here they do not go beyond our experimental labora- lories or proving grounds until they have been most thoroughly The European engineer, not being tied down by any produc- tion restrictions, has a tendency
The body is carried close to the A large corps of engineers are to jump around and try out every thing in sight. It is perfectly where only one existed before. ground giving a touch of raciness busily engaged in an effort to de-
The very
best minds of, to the model and at the same time termine just how cars true that the testing out of mis-
practically every providing unusual roadability be-different conditions and different cellaneous types of construction America in is necessary to bring about de-known mechanical and electrical cause of the low centre of gravity. treatment. Certain parts of a car This new model is marked by wear after being subjected to vari- velopment. The same work, how-science are being called into the
How can mechanical) ever, is being done in this country service of reducing to the ultim- unusually wide doors which provide ous texts.
How can but very little of it goes beyond ate minimum mechanical compli-easy entrance and exit. Generous details be bettered? the experimental room door
cations for the Amerienn motor-senting and leg room is afforded vibration be lessened?" How can list. We are even going into the five passengers, two in front in-wind resistance be cut down? Making Sure.
radio field for aid and, for the dividual seats and three in the How can this and that, be improv- nesthetic side of automobile de-rear compartment. The front seats 'ed upon so that the automobile can sign, we are calling upon the best tilt forward to provide easy access be constantly made better? in American art.
to the rear sent.
These are the problems that the Comfort in the seats is a engineers endeavour to solve "and Public Uninformed.
noticeable fenture, the contour of, the Proving Ground is their Inbora-
to tory.
Here with delicate instru Perhaps it is unfortunate that the back rests being such as the public here cannot have a com-jprovide the utmost restfulness for ments they check up on every de- plete knowledge of the daily work driver and passengers.
The dimmer arrangement is con- of the automobile engineer in its
On this large tract of ground a switch conveniently behalf. However that same pub-trolled by
there is practically everything to (Continued at foot of meat located at the driver's left foot. A
test the stamina and endurance of Column.)
non-splinternble steering wheel. also adds an element of safety 'medium sized grades, 4
a cur. Small grades, steep grades, banked This patented wheel is comprised · of a steel centre with a hard rub speedway for testing high speeds;
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In America we have to be very sure that the design is safe be fore we release it for production or even show it to the public. It is an interesting fact that in Europe many companies show ex-' perimental care year after year which they make no effort to put into production. That kind of procedure in this country would be fatal, for an automobile com- pany.
MORRIS
THIS IS
"the Wheel of the World"
The CAR of the Year.
DELIVERED PRICES NETT NETT EXTRA CASH CASH for 50"
MORRIS-COWLEY 11.9 H.P. Londen Hong Kong Track
48′′ TRACK-105” WHEELBASE. ROADSTER
4 Seater £153
£180
TOURING (4-DOOR)
4 Seater 170
200
COUPE (FIXED HOOD) 2 Seater
175
210
10
SALOON (4-DOOR)
4 Seater
386
225
·10
TRAVELLER'S CAR
108
200
STANDARD VAN
165
200
MORRIS-OXFORD 11.9 H.P.
48′′ TRACK—1061⁄2” WHEELBASE.
TOURING
4 Seater 205
238
SALOON
4 Seater 215
255
MORRIS-OXFORD 13.9 H.P.
48" TRACK-1061⁄2" WHEELBASE.
ROADSTER
TOURING
COUPE
I
4 Seater
210
240
4 Seater 225
260
15
2 Seater
230
270
4 Seater
200
290
5 Seater
285
330
SALOON
LANDAULETTE
MORRIS-OXFORD 15.9 H.P.
56" TRACK-114" WHEELBASE.
(4-speed gear)
TOURING SALOON
5 Seater 335
355
6 Seater 345
400
MORRIS LIGHT-SIX. 17.7 H.P.
2468 c.c.—Approx. 21⁄2 litres.
TOURING SALOON
6 Seater
320
360
6 Seater
350.
405
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ber outer rim, Tumishing a sure grip for the driver.
The two-tone colour combination
tail.
react to
hairpin curves, mud holes, water
baths, conerete roads, unimproved dirt roads, tarvia roads, gravel
iltable to
tions.
car is
of the Coach presents a richness roads, deep sand roads, skidding Beldom found in cars in the Willye pads-everything that a Knight Standard Six price class,
meet under any condi matching perfectly with the mobair and velvet upholstery. The remote And here on all these different door controls and the well balanced kinds of roads will be seen cars group of instruments on the de- flashing past constantly every day corative panel also are features of the year-all intent on proving stressed by Willys-Overland, makers, exactly what every car owner ar- of this new line of Knight engined gues about, namely, how fast a vehicles. The windshield is one car will accelerate, what causes piece, of the full ventilating type. wheels to shimmy, how much gas Additional ventilation is furnished and oil are-consumed. per mile, from the front by means of a wide how fast & car will go, whether cowl ventilator.
four wheel brakes will stop skid-
are
Like the other cars of this new ding, ability for hill climbing, etc. line the Coach is powered by a As soon as a car arrives at the Willys-Knight sk-cylinder double Proving Ground, it is measured Bleeve-engine (developing 45 throughout and every specification horsepower at its point of maxi-jis jotted down. The success of mum efficiency-varies in various the Proving Ground demands that countries). Tests have proved the nothing be taken for granted; so high efficiency of this sleeve-valve although certain make care engine. It has shown remarkable claimed to have a definite bore ant ability to maintain a high rate of stroke, wheelbase, etc. engineers speed mile after mile and its power measure everything to know the on the hills over which it has been figures on the rear axle ratio, what tested has led Willys-Overland en-the exact dimensions of each bear-| gineers to declare that it gets a ling are, just what the turning new high standard performance radius is, the head room-all of which would do credit to a car sell, this by actual measurement. |ing in a higher price field.
After all this has been done and tabulated the car is sent out to be driven for 2,000 miles at the speci- fied rates of speed, so that it may lic never would forgive the be broken in for the severe tests American engineer if he gave it a that come later on. It often seems transmission, for instance, like irritating to the owner of a new one recently widely heralded in car to keep it down to the speed Europe. So complicated none but specified for a certain distance by an engineer can understand it the factory, yet here at the Prov- that transmission would spelling Ground the same rule is strict the professional death knell of
ly observed..
its designer just as soon as the
first one was presented for the At 2,000 miles the car is taken first time to the average garage to the shops and tuned up for its Here it goes through mechanic for adjustment or re-first tests.
the regular procedure or overhaul-
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pair.
I firmly believe that every good ing that any dealer gives a car feature which is started in after it, is broken in bolts are Europe, or any where else, will tightened all over, carbon remov- finally be incorporated in the ed, valves ground, brakes examin. American automobile. They will ed, lubrication checked, et
not, however, be adopted here Now.come the tests that deter- until such time as they are thomine the stamina of any car. As roughly proved and simplified to has been stated before, there are the point where they are practical, about 180-old steats but some of the
The Acid Test.
main ones are acceleration in low accelera-
The acid test is being given in and. Intermediate gear; this country continuously to tion from 10 to 25 miles per hour every new automobile feature dein seconds; acceleration from 19 to veloped anywhere. The Ameri-35 miles per hour in acconds; can engineer deems himself ex-maximum speed for flexibility; tremely lucky if he can find just maximum speed; hill climb; 11.65 one new practical thing out of per cent, grade, with 460-pound each score or more that he tries, load, starting in high gear at 10 While he is reaching out, how-miles per hour 20 miles per hour ever, he is not asking the public-30 miles per hour; fuel economy. to do any of his testing, His own at 10 miles per hour, 15, 20, 25, 30, laboratories and proving grounds 85, 40, 45, 50 and 55; vibration are doing that job. The nineteen (and noise at driver's and passen out of twenty new things which ger's seats at various speads; fail to measure go under the ham-steering effort; cold weather start- mer of the wreckers and are reing; carburetter mixture tempera- duced to scrap without the public ture; distance stop; clutch pedal ever having even seen them, pressure to throw out, to hold fa; I believe there is a keen appre time to change tyres with the car- ciation of this system even in tools; time to grease and off the Europe. Supporting this may be car; time to wash and polish the the fact that the business of ex. car; fuel consumption on endur- porting American-made auto-ance runs overall cost of opera mobiles is growing tremendously, tion per mile of test; ventilation We ourselves are enjoying the and humidity, inside of carat best export business we ever had various speeds; area of clear indirect.competition with the vision; angle, clear vision and best Europe has to offer,
Jight reflection at driver's nest
Measure Value
by the New
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Chrysler 52
The New Chrysler "52" owner best knows the ut most in motor car value judged by performance, comfort and luxury. For he has daily experience of its smooth, unfailing speed and typical Chrysler accel eration and low fuel con- sumption.
He rides in substantial wood and steel bodies of full size for adult passengers, on saddle spring seat cushions.
His Chrysler "52” has richer fittings and equipment, up- holstery of finer texture and colour harmonies so much more striking.
Let the New Chrysler “52”
be your measure of value in this price field. Inspect care- fully its body features. Then test its performance by actual riding and driving. You, too, will then choose the New Chrysler “52”
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