CHEVROLET
Bigger
Better
THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, MOTORING SUPPLEMENT. SATURDAY, APRIL 14, 1928.
STRICT RECORDS AND CHECKS.
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Quality at Low Cost
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THE NEW
CHEVROLET
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Still
IS
HERE
Greater Beauty
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Smoother Ometer
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Comparison of the new 1928 Chevrolet line with other makes
in its price class at the New York Automobile Show brings out two salient points.
The increase of four inches in wheel-base has enabled the Fisher Body, engineers to obtain a much better appearance between the height and length of the car. " The new Fisher closed bodies are roomier, wider doors make it easier to get in and out of the car, and new beautiful upholstery material blends, with a really beautiful' Duco Anish. The Sedan body is approximately three inches longer and the Coach five inches longer. The rear end of the roof on the Sedan, Coach, Landau and Coupe has been rounded off to improve the appearance." The Fisher V. V. windshield has been placed in the Cabriolet and Landau, and all have new and very attractive colours,
Inside, the bodies have grently increased leg room and greater comfort. "All the body fittings; regulators, remote door controls and locks have been improved in пppearance and given a luxurious touch. The cars are low with no sacrifice of road clearance, and the lines, are continuous and pleasing, with no real in the line from radiator to tail light. They have a rich, substantial beauty and good taste throughout. With real benuty, every convenience and comfort, feature that can he desired, plus performance that will match many much higher priced cars, they offer exceptional value.
Chevrolet competitive position by comparison is unquestion- ably stranger than ever. Only the best resources of General Motors and the mammoth Chevrolet manufacturing facilities could make possible so dupendable, su nuodern a car at such low prices. The many manufacturing advantages of the Chevrolet Matur Company that are absolutely unique in the low price car field are fully realized in the new models, The savings made as a result of these unique advantages is passed on to the public, offering the greatest dollar for dollar value in the history of the mator car industry, and providing a car with a lower passenger nille cost than any other car in the world-regardless of size or price.
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CHEVROLET
Surer Faster Acceleration
Longer Lower Roomier
New Duco Colors
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New Snubbing Springs
CHEVROLET
Higher Narrower Radiator
CHEVROLET
Four Wheel Brakes
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These photos show how strict supervising officials of the American Automobile Associn- tion are in checking test cars. with actual specifications. Here they are shown checking Studebaker measurements before the recent tests at Atlantic City. At upper left, piston
size is measured; lower left, compression; right, gear ratio.
Checked Up al End.
South Bend, Ind., Feb. 24- Automobiles are arting around-
valves and pistons are closely checked. This there is no doubt
At the end, the cars tell the that stock cars, the kind we buy a wide speedway at more than a storles of their short lives in terms from dealers, are put through the mile a minute.
Lap after inp, hour after.bour, jof convincing measurements. The severe tests of speed and endur- day and night, they go practically engineers go over every part, Ence,
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at the same speed, with only an occasional stop for more oil and fuel and perhaps a change of drivers.
In the judges stand, a sensitive chronomoter elleks off the time as each machine passes by, officials record it and awing their heads sharply as they watch the car on the track. Oficials of the Ameri- can Automobile Association crowd the little room, to see that all records are necurate. Engineers, below, watch expectantly.
This is the way the recent test of Studebaker automobiles was
studying the effect of the test on
on the pistons, the Close check on performanceo is the gears, valves, the cylinders, the crank nude while the cars swing around shafts and in fact every moving the track A sensitive recording machine is in the judges' stand, part in the automobile.
To make these tests "official" clicking off the time within a hun- to get the recognition of the dredth of a second that a test car American Automobile Association passes by. This time recorder is and to convince the motoring examined and certified by the Slates Bureau of public that the test is really a test United
of standard, automobiles, strict Standards, to be accurate within
are one-tenth of a second in 24 hours. checks and measurements made even before the 'cars go on the track.
Worn Parts Are Studied. Representatives of the A. A. A. At the finish, the engineers took made at the Atlantic City Speed-do this. They strip the car of its hold of the test curs. Even to-day why. Others, La Salle, Auburn, parts and measure every detail to they are acrutinizing each part the under microscope. They are put- Stutz, for example, have made see that all conform with similar speed tests, all with theficial specifications of factory-ting the used parts under various They take the test metallurgic tests, and they're same idea in mind to establish made cars, the extent of punishment their cars to an independent garage and determining the amount of wear check them there with similar jdue to the milenges and speeds products can withstand.
to models taken from a dealer's undergone. Going a distance equal
The discoveries of the engineers encircling the earth for 10 consc-stock.
The hore and stroke are will result in improvement of cutive days and nights, as the Studebakers did recently, is per-measured, gear teeth on the rear wearing parts, so that the stock haps the most gruelling test to transmission are counted to deter automobile of the future may with- which engineers could put their mine the gear ratio, the engine atand a greater strain of speed compression is tested, the sizes of and endurance than it does to-day. products.
THE STAMINA OF Aed one clutch, spiral bevel final drive, four wheel brakes, and half elipticapring all round with Hartford shock absorbers.
CAR:
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FASTEST CLIMB OF
DASHWOOD HILL.
TYRE REPAIR KITS.
SHOULD ALWAYS BE CARRIED,
Chiselling off the Mud. Story of Brutality Test. A few days ago I got the car
Most motorists are wise enough out of the garage and after scrap to always carry in their tool kits a ing some of the mud off with a puncture repairing outfit, but na chiacl, found that the cellulose this is usually called into use only Hooked quite good underneath. at infrequent intervals, the contents was thinking then that she seemed of the outfit are apt to be neglected. to be just about as dirty inside as
Puncture patches should be wrap- out, and it was about time ehelped in paper to prevent them being went into dock for overhaul, a damaged, and rubber bands should thing I hate, as the men who made bo placed round the tin of solution, her don't understand her nearly tin of chalk, and so on, to prevent as well as I do, and it would prob the containers, rattling.
[By the Hon. Maynard Greville.] This is the story of a three-litre Bentley.
ably take me about six months to
get her back to her old Aweet self.
Incidentally I may say that the
I make no apology for using this space to discuss my own car, as it is the only one every detail of whose history I know with certain-battery, like all batterics I know,
To help the engine in cold weather adjust the carburetor in
air is used in the fuel mixture.
ty since the day that it first came has long since failed to keep pace take connexion so that only hot out of the factory, but before 1 with the rest of the car, and do so I think it is necessary to now sufficient when fully charged explain the philosophy of motor-to light one side lamp and the tail inmp for parking purposes, while ling..
the head lamps will not even glow When I reached Dashwood, I- First of all, if my car wanta until the engine is going fast stopped to put another plece of looking after I sell it, so it is no enough to light them off the string round the hood to make sure use grumbling to me about dynamo. Of course, the starter would not blow off, and proceed- treatment; stupid treatment yes,will not work under these condied to go up the new long section but not ill-treatment. After ions, but I like the handle if I from standing start in Imin. all, Cors
the 12 4-5sec, which is about 16 were made for men, remember to retard fully not men for cars, a fact which many of our manufacturers seem gnition, as, che will still kick one seconds faster than I have ever nonchalantly through the garage climbed it before. The hill could roof if this is omilled. The pull-be topped
third to ignore,
Now as, to the car. It was de qualities of the car are not at about 68 m.ph., though livered in September, 1924, a porn any way Impaired, however, as as the "Autovac" was drying On UP probably owing to dirt, those figures will show. fectly standard "speed model," and since then it has done just second gear 10 to 20 mph. had to take my foot off slightly In this dis occupied 4 3-5-sec. 10 to about 100 yards from the top.
on
gear.
over 51,000 miles. tanco it has only been decar 30, 7sec.; 10 to 40, 128eo.; and The old steep portion was climb bonised once, that is 20,000 miles 10 to 50, 15' 3-5sec. In third Ied in 87 3-5sec., and the one-in-ten back, and then it was brought up reached 60 from 10 m.p.h. in portion at a steady 52 miles per to 1326 specification, by the fitting 28sec., and on top 50 mph, from hour on second." of high-compression pistone, a
All-Out on Bottom Gear.
From my former remarks it may
be
gathered that the hood is not
all that might be desired, and I
am informed by those who have: the misfortune to travel. In the
new cam shaft with different cam10 required 36ase. From a stand- was put through the test. Person- NEW INSURANCE BILL.
negligent driving or carelessness, profiles, radiator stone guard, &c. ng start I reached 70 m.p.l. on
This bill, it is argued, would Since then It has not been touch-third in 30 3-5xec. ally measuring a quart of spirit ordinary petrol, was used-Mr.
cause many who have no insured; even the same K.LG. "plugs
I then had a brutality test. I back beats that they certainly want Oakley poured this into New York, Mar. 1-A now blance to take it out. However, there in the engine, and nothing has auxillary tank coupled to the dry Introduced in the New York state law would not require any one to been done except for occasional did a mile om bottom gear all-out restuffing. The spring of the In 1min. 98sec. from a standing three litre Bentley is always harah Australia by Mr. I. Oakley, Editor carburetter fitted with a largo legislature has met with the carry it and therefore is not com lubrication. of Motor Cycling and Bicycling, touring jet, No. 28. Under the approval of the New York State pulsory.
The three-litro Bentley engine is start, which represents a speed of under thirty miles an hour, but it produced astonishing and truly supervision of motor cycle press Automobile Association, which has
a four cylinder, 80 by 149 mm. 37.54 m.ph. The engine did not makes up for that later, as it is wonderful results. A brand new mon and others, the Triumph nearly 100,000 members.
bore and stroke, with four over-boll, and when I switched her off extremely good at high speeds and Triumph Model W de Luxe" Model "W" went 53 miles on that bill, introduced, by Senator G. I
On second thoughts I think the motor cycle, 277 c.c. capacity, was quart, equivalent to 212 miles per Fearon and Assemblyman H. M. One day's total of traflo viola-head valves per cylinder and two at the end there was no sign of Improving with ngo.: aelected by Mr. Oakley from the gallon, a phenomenal mileage, Stone, would have motorists com tors in New York City was 1900. plugs in each cylinder. There are pro-ignition. The brakes pulled Melbourne distributor's stock, and which has never been approached penunte persons they injure of pay It took seven magistrates to two magnetos and twe carburet me up from 40 mp.h. in under car is going too well, and I shall
tors, a four-speed gearbox, invert-100 feet... without any special preparation in Australia before.
for property damaged through handle these canen,
The
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not put her into dock yet.