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THURSDAY, MAY 24, 1928.
U.S. OUTLOOK.
CHEVROLET OFFICIALS ON CONDITIONS..
KEEN ENTHUSIASM.
Ometals of the Chevrolet Motor Company expressed keen enthu- ainsm over the Industrial outlook
NEW CHEVROLET.
MANY IMPROVEMENTS
DESCRIBED.
FOUR WHEEL BRAKES.
One of the improvements in the of 1928 Chevrolet is the addition four-wheel brakes. The front
OVER ITALY.
AT. 100 MILES AN HOUR.
NEW ROAD SYSTEM.
THE CHINA MAIL,
RESEARCH WORK.
WHAT STUDEBAKER 19 DOING.
LOOKING FOR FACTS.
Brief bits of information which A revelation of the intensive re- are finding their way out of Italy search carried on by automotive indicate that the Italian
engineers in the relentless search
govern-
in the United States for the wheel brakes are the internal ex- ment is distancing the first of the for the facts of performance is
balance of 1928 upon their return to Detroit recently after a country widg industrial survey that brought them in contact with re- city and presentatives of overy town in the United States. The Chevrolet officials travelled in two groups; one headed by K. H. Grant, vice-president in charge of sales, travelled through the eastern sistes: the other in charge of H. J.. Klinger, general sales manager, covered all the western states.
panding type and the rear wheel brakes the external contracting
of the
world in its policies dealing with the problem of motor traffic.
contained in a statement which type. The total braking area ofation and expansion of what
Fer 18 months or more the oper- was made public recently by W. S. la James, research engineer of The the service brakes is 189 square known as the "autostrada" of Italy Studebaker Corporation. inches.
has been going on quietly until this
"Records
Studebaker year over 200 miles of unintersect- ed, protected high speed motor Proving Ground and Research quare inches of braking area on and no 'speed limits, are in opera- and Erskine experimental
roads, containing no angular turns Laberatory show that Studebaker | the rear wheels as an emergency tion. brake, making a square inches.
In addition a complete, separate brake mechanism
furnishes
70
250 total of
Chevrolet brakes are KO
Cars
What the Romans did before the were driven a total of 1,575,000 Christian era in road building and miles in 1927," sall Mr. Jamea. con-which now endures in southern Eu-
rope is apparently a target which lent to more thas 61 trips around This amazing mileage, equiva the Mussolini government is deavouring to shoot past and be the earth, covers 12 months' test yond. The autostrada appears to dring of Studebaker's
structed that there is none of the chatter pr locking often experienced
in other cavs.
Among the favourable factors were: small and relatively few areas of depression: no disturbing political issues: widespread em- ployment, with unemployment t normal: erop indientionA favour able to the farmer; large building ned construcțion programmes under way; and a general realisa-sure safety of operation. tion that the "presidential year" bugaboo is purely a mental hazard and not a deterrent to bușiness.
The middle western farmer is in a particularly good position, Mr. Klinger reported. "Farm prices
are now for the first time since the werkt war on a level with other commodities; the weather
this apring is favourable to good crop yields, and inated and values have generally subsided. Farming is now on a stable, healthy, normal basis. The farmer is prosperous and his prosperity, because of the basic nature of the industry, is re- fected throughout our economí: system.
"I the Rocky Mountain and. Pacific Coast reglan industry humming: curtailment of over-pro-
en-
310W
The emergency brakes is located at the left hand side of the driver be a road system that will make the Erskine Six, The Director, The and operates the two internal ex-ancient Famin efforts seem Commander; the new
President panding rear wheel brakes through amateurish y comparison,
Eight, and various commercial an entirely separate set of linkage.
Located Near Milan.
models. It does not include.com-: In case of failure of the service The earlier examples of modern parative tests and studies maila brake the emergency offers an highway development are in the with competitive cara, nor many Three branches other tests made in the laboratories entirely different brake hook-up. vicinity of Milan. This is an important factor to as-
connect Milan with Como, Varese, on individual units such as motors, and Bergamo. Extensions of 200 springs, and other parts.. miles to Vertice, and 70 milles to Hamburg, Germany, are contemplat-laboratory equipment, would great- These tests, made with special ed
On these highways, which are
ly increase the actual driving mile. toll roads, speed and safety have "ge if their equivalent mileage been the fundamental results sought were included, by engineers. Ninety or 100 miles:
Another factor of safety in the new Chevrolet models is the large safety gasoline tank located at the rear of the chassis. The tank is protected with a wide, heavy cross member and is fitted with a gaso
ел-
line gauge.
The vacuum created in the gine draws the gasoline from the rear tank to the Stewart-Warner. vacuum tank, located on the dash,
the carburetter. This fuel system from which it flows by gravity to is, absolutely safe and is of the same type used almost exclusively
on the higher priced' cars.
LUBRICATION,
OILING THE CHASSIS.
As an example of these inborn. an hour for motor cars is not only tory tests, Mr. James quoted a rés possible, but common practice. port on one 350 hour endurance There is no intersecting traffic, no run made by a new President Eight perceptible curves, and the road sur-motor. The run covered the equi
valent us 14,000 miles. The motor face is kept scrupulously smooth.
was run at wide open throttle fo: 50 consecutive hours at a speed of lv miles an hour, then for another 56
Recently a Californian, John An- on Ford of Los Angeles, made a journey over a portion of this re: markable system.
Tells Of Autostrada. Reporting upon his travels, Ford
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hours at 20 miles an hour, and so on without stopping through five additional fifty hour periods at 30, 40, 50, 60 and 70 miles per hour." The only replacements or adjust. ments made during the ran were, two spark plugs.
This impressive endurance run was but one of many made with the new eight cylinder motor before it won the engineers' approval Milan, our car production.
Rumours of this magnificent modern cousin of the famous rouds of the ancient Roman empire duction of oil and lumber has had Almost every maker now supplies reached us as we approached Mi- a healthy and stabilised effect on a lubrication chart with each car inn from the south. But we were the Southern and North-western so much grease or oil at such tremendously surprised and delight States.
Huge building projecta and-such polats every 80-many ed none the less when, on the north are under way throughout this dis trict and the unqualified optimism of the people backing them show the tremendous importance the Weal- ern States are destined to have in our national growth and welfare."
miles.
We have no concern with'ern outskirts of the amount or frequency of these was brought to a halt by a heavy doses; but there are some prae- iron gate, beyond which stretched, tical points on how to give them straight to the blue horizon a con- that come within the scope of crete highway 35 or 40 feet wide. valeting a car.
Similar healthy tadertunes of opia cleanliness. timism prevail throughout
sible would continse.
We had proceeded only miles on what we realized. was an unusual highway, when, with the roar of a wide open muffler, a big Fint ahat past us at terrific speed. I turned to watch the vehicle thun- der into invisibility as suddenly as it had appeared, Instinctively I looked both ways for a traffic of- Acer, but the coast was clear.
And before I knew it, another
1 We were more than willing to The main point suggesting itself pass over the requisite number of Clean lubricant is paper tras and receive a receipt the more essential to the chassis than in return, which fortunately we re- East, according to Mr. Grant's reclean food to the human body. tained elsa we would have had dif- port. He pointed out that New There, is a Victorian tradition, ficulty in leaving the autostrada England made such a phenomenal strong still, that grease and oil are at the far end of our memorable recovery from the several natural dirty,, and by the simple associa-, ride, calamities which befell it inst fall tion of ideas that are never reason the Italian lake country.
We were headed straight for that during the early part of 1928 cd out, dirt-le, dust, mud and the New England States led the grit-is regarded as their natural
a few. entire United States in percentage companion. In other words, it of Chevrolet, sales over regular seems to many people not to mat- quota, with every indication that ter in the least whether the nipples the fundamental economic sound on the chassis, or the oil-gun it ness that made that showing pos- self are dirty or not when lubrica
tion is being done. Probably they Reports of unemployment in the suppose the film of dirt-encrusted North Atlantic States were dia oil on the nipples is merely oll: counted by
the Chevrolet sajes more probably they neither know head on the basis of personal ob nor care.
It needs emphasising, car that seemed more like a rub- servation and from reports of then, that oil and grease are par- ber-tyred cannonball than a motor Secretary of Labour Davis, stating ticularly clean substances: more vehicle, went past like a streak. that there are 42,000,000 people care is taken in their preparation Almost the same instant we were gainfully employed in the United than in that of most food. A good overtaken from the rear by a third car deserves to have its lubricants speed demon. The last one was a served in a clean and wholesome Lancia and the one Mr. Grant paid high tribute to style, for it cannot give good ser big German car, the name of which before that a the South for the forward
Provice without. The practical aidé grammes that are bringing that of it is so very little trouble, and
I could not make out. section of the country rupidly to when a proper cleanliness is ob- the front in national importance, served the hands need scarcely be This was recently evidenced by the soiled. Proper cleanliness fa keep Chevrolet Motor Company with the ing the gun and the nipples clean; opening regional headquarters at and, as a natural consequence, the both Dallas, Texas and Atlanta, hands will be clean also. Georgia.
Cleanliness Essential.
States.
Sky Is The Limit. Ten
speed was enough for us. I pre- or 15 miles or unlimited ferred to slow down and study the conditions that made this speed- way so safe. They were not far to seek. Protecting either side of stretches, far from habitations, were the splendid road, except in a few strong fences to keep out intruders, But more important still we soon discovered that there were no cross-
In line with these enthusiastle! A method that will give these predictions the Chevrolet Motor results is as follows: Suppose the Company is proceeding with the gun wants Alling, and is gritty. heavlest production and sales sche with smears of oil on ita body dule it has ever undertaken. Old That Is a condition frequently roads. Instersecting highways went records have consistently
been found
Let it be quite carefully either under or over the autostrada; broken every
month so far this wiped; old newspapers are very magnificent examples of concrete year, while the 1928 programme handy for this sort of job. The calls for a substantial increase hands need not be soiled if the Another feature was the absence
gun is held with a piece of new of corners and sharp curves.,
For paper or rag. When quite clėsti,
road was per. with no trace of oil, let it be fill the most part the
fectly straight, but in one or two 40-mile section These there were slight curves.
over even the record output of a million cars and trucks in 1927.
25 SALES.
construction.
fnstances on this
ed. If a grease-gun be used, it can be filled with an
old table- knife; observe that the handle of this should be dry and clean; also, were no gradual as to offer no in-
terference with the highest speed.
if not, let it be wiped.
Gréase
It is a known and accepted fact cartridges are convenient. After that one satisfied owner frequently filling, any trace of grease should nipples have been charged, each can be directly or indirectly re be wiped off the gun. It should should be wiped again. This wip aponsible for many Studebaker or be as clean to handle as when new, ing afterwards la one of the chief Erskine Butes to his friends. C. C. An oil-gun is rather different; points. If left clean and dry, Sheppard of Pittsburgh, Pa., sup the oil must be poured in and nipples do not accumulate one. plies strong evidence, of this in the often it is, made to overflow. The quarter the dust and grit. The following letter "At the present pouring should be done over anlast item is wiping the nozzle of time I am driving my sixth Stude old newspaper, and the gun can be the gun carefully before laying. It baker, automobile. The occasion slightly tilted so that any, acciden- aside. The only chance of getting affords, me an
opportunity to off-tal excess will run clear of the the hands dirty throughout these cially register as one of your com fingers that held it. When Alled, operations is through carelessness pany's satisfied customers. One of the gun will be wiped and the in bandling the rag when wiping. your company's slogans reads in mouth of the can it was filled from the nipples: It is a point to bear in effect The Best Car on the as well. Wiping the mouth of the mind. It fe hoped that many car Market In Its Price Class. It is can is a two-seconds' job, and it owners who have not realised this not merely a selling argument, but ensures clean off to cleanliness viewpoint and its ad is a truthful statement. Through The gun being ready, every vantages may find their greasing or my personal recommendations more nipple to be lubricated in wiped oiling periods less messy and than 25 Studebakers have been pur- with a piece of clean fag. A gentle troublesome. For similar reasons chayed, and to the best of my know pressure and a slight twist will it pays to wipe the mouth of every Sedge each owner has been clean one nipple per second. The oil receptacle both before and After pleasingly surprised with its won-gun can then be used according to use, and the edges of the lids of "derful" përformance."":
the makers" directions; when all grease" tins..
for
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