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Harley-Davidson lightweight 1951 model
For Immediate Release: Mechanical refinements re- sulting in quleter motor per- formance are major advance- ments on the 1951 model Big Twin Harley-Davidson motor- cycles which carry over the time proved "bump
eraser" Hydra-Glide fork.
Dig Twin overhead valve models also feature chrome plated compression plston rings which make for smoothi "n-in" of cylinder bores and rings, result- ing in a lighter compression seal. Carburettor refinements, chrome pilled lower exhaust system, and
newly designed chrome eript name plate are still other ad- vancements.
Standard colours on the Big Twins, 45 cubic inch model, und Servi-Car are Persian Red, Ri Blue, Brilliant Black, and op. tional al extra cost, Métalle Green, White, and Metallic Blue,
Redesign of the front end of the model 125 Harley-Davidson ghtweight has given the 1961 cylinder Job ม huskler look. Called the Tele-Glide, the new fork automatically "telescopes" In length to compensate for road! irregularities. The advantage is rushianed comfort to the rider.
The more powerful model 125 averages 90 miles per gallon of fuel and has further advance- mments of larger fenders, redesign. ed muffer, and binger headlight
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A telesapla fork, wider fenders, larger headlight, and redesigned muffler are advance. mente on the new, more powerful model 125 Harley-Davidson lightweight, Called the Tole. Glide, the new fork's telescople action "Irons out" road bumps. Sportsman's Yellow remains on the standard colour list which includes two new finishes-Perelan Rod, and Rio Blue.
Comfort, convenience-U.S. style
Quite apart from their sheer size as full six-seaters in comparison with the average British car, the current American products, of which little har been seen in Great Britain since the war, are interesting, as parison with British cars of the way in which the user has been studi- ed.
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In detail features there are perhaps now wider divergences in this respect between the approach in the two countries than used to apply before the war.
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cars,
which also A case in point is the 1850 | warm round the driver's American - Packard, one of America's finest ankles, a valuable arrangement do not usually have door pockets. cars and one of its oldest makes, when it is not required to warm In tho Packard, for compensa- there is a lockable compart- tion, which has a decided tradition, the whole car.
Two controls ollhough Americans themselves
regulate the inent of useful size in the left would probably scorn the use of entry of fresh air through panels of the facts, while behind the beneath the rear With buck acat, such a word in connection with set in the scuttle sides. motor curs,
the change to right-hand drive window, is a very useful shelf for convenience of back-seat in the car concerned, only cold the fresh air enters thus, and plenty passengers. of it when required, but with left-hand, drive fresh air can be admitted and warmed before circulation.
In engine size and wheelbase the Eight is the smallest of the current Packards, at 3.7 litres and 10ft respectively, and it has side-valve straight eight en- rine, a design which, with the exception of one or two examples of six-cylinder engines offered for computatively short periods, in lower-priced.models, has been typically Packard over meny years.
It has independent front sus- pension by coil springs. The body is an extremely roomy four-door saloon.
Overdrive transmission fitted. giving a cruising ratio of 2.06 to 1, as compared with the ordinary direct drive top gear ratio of 4.1 to 1, the other ratio of the three-speed gear box being high The car weighs approximately 371⁄2 cwt.
Quality reproduction
BRITAIN STUDIES U.S. HIGHWAYS
The Economic Co-operation An exceedingly good eight-Administration Mission to the valve radio with press-button United Kingdom announced control is fitted, possessing a tone that Mr. C. E. Hollinghurst, range which would be more than divisional road engineer for acceptable for domestic purposes the London Metropolitan area, and which is notably in advance
the United
of the reproduction usually ob has arrived in tained in the somewhat difficult States for a three-month study conditions applying to car radio. of traffic problems and ruou A suction-operated control raises maintenance. end lowers the aerial,
Another additional Item of His visit is a part of the ECA equipment is a Trico screen technical assistance programme, spray. When the control for the which assists experts from Mar- suction-operated screenwipers is shall Ald countries in studies turned in the opposite direction which will benent European enabling it to be cleared of the economic recovery. Ane müd film which is a decļ-
It must be noted that the price, celivered in New York, Is 3,059 dollars inclusive of the equipet ment carried by the car that has been seen and tried, and with right-hand drive.
dedly annoying feature of driving -Mr.-Hollinghurst - has for some on wet roads when it is not years been engaged on planning actually raining,
besides being
eing high-speed motor road construc- useful for removing dead insects. tion in Britain, and is in America American and British ideas to see what developments in the
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differ in regard to provision for use of mechanical methods the carrying of books, packages, found successful in the U.S. and maps and so forth, and the shelf the types of layout and standards common British of construction which are at pre- which is feature beneath the Instrument sent favoured by American High- eboard seems to be unknown way engineers.
The basic factory price without additional equipment is 2,417 dollars, so that a car of this size and luxury, with the name Packard attached to it, can bought in the U.S., shorn of trimmings, and with its native left-hand drive, for approx!- mately the equivalent of £800.
Additions
It is obvious with the U.S. CBTS Kenerally that what would be called a fully equipped car in Great Britain embodies as stand- ard a number of features treated in America as additions to the basic list price.
radio.
. On the Packard items of extra cost, included in the total price already quoted, were a reversing light, under-bonnet lamp, lugg- oge compartment light, heater, plated exhaust deflector on the tall pipe, scat
Covers, windscreen washer, bonnet orna- ment or mascot, and even the shallow rear wheel shields,
which are standard, however, on the Custom Eight, biggest and most expensive model of the range.
A lockable fuel tank aller la another extra available, ns. also ere a vanity mirror for attaching to the passenger's sun vizor, the special which can be adjusted of rearview prism mirror by
A touch of
of the finger to mini- mize glare from behind at night, and,, an interesting offering that seems to comment on the overall size and vision from the modern American car, an external driy- ing mirror.
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It is, however, the additional. Equipment which has a strong uppeal, especially to passengers. In the first place, the heater and ventilating system is typi cally elaborate and effective. The main heater radiátor, and two-speed fan unit is minted under the front seat, from which position back seat passengers receive beneat
There is also a separato fan, amounted abovestim base of the steering codes for circulating warm air for dehisting and de- feing the wind-screen, and this secondary unitilean circulate
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