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Whiz Auto Body Polish (Pint)
Whiz Auto Rady Poligli. (Quart)
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2.00
1.50
1,50
1.25
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Whiz Lusterize Polish (8 oz.)
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Whiz Metal Polish ( Pint)
.40
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.80
Whiz Solloff (81⁄2 oz.)
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.60
Whiz All Rubber Patch Outfit No. 1
.60
(Whiz All Rubber Patch Outfli No. 2
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..25
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.80
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.50
1.00
Whiz Cleaning (Radiator) Compound (14 oz.)
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TELEGRAPH,
THE NEW FORD.
MOTORING SUPPLEMENT.
resistance to the brake housings in Ford mechanical welders. The brake housing is also a product of the forging machine, specially Impor-treated to sustain the weight and
Welding Plays
tant Part..
torque of rear wheels. This as sembly is set up and flash welded "That's not a new automobile;, to the smaller end of the tubular,
No wonder they take it to section. Excess upset metal on the airport to try it out-it doesn't the complete rear axle housing run: it flieal'
is eliminated by cutler, grinder, lathe. Before the bell Thus, in effect, the passengers and expressed their opinion of the new sections are bolted to the banjo- cach Ford Model A, after a spin over rabbit cuts are made on the rutted, hillocky road that which assure their alignment. It skirts the field at Dearborn, where is hardly possible to conceive Ford planes take off and land. unit of this sort more suited to the And having expressed themselves demands of the new car
bus most of them walked round the latest produet of Ford en- ginooring, touching here, peering there, as though trying to make sure whether this car were not after all a brilliant illusion.
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The Model. "A" Muffler." Another fine example of the of the structural superiority Model A is found in the mullor. The muffler on the Model T was Then, convinced that the car made up of seven pieces, held to was real, they stepped back and gether by bolts. In the Model A remained gazing at its racing kuca,an' outer shell of pressed steel is with expressions which said plain-shaped to tubular form in a die. ly that, though their muscles and Into this a baffle is spot welded by nerves knew the impossible had the resistance method. An inner been accomplished, their reason shell into which have been welded would need time to absorb and three baffles, equally spaced, is accept.
The contract between inserted in the outer shell, and their settled iden of what an auto-both are flash welded to the inlet mobile should be and this concrete pipe. This design allows the rear embodiment of what an automobile end of the inner shell to expand could be had proved too great for and contract under the heat of the easy adjustment. To-morrow, per- exhaust. The whole assembly is haps, they would be able to be-welded by flash resistance to the lieve; today they were forced to outlet pipe, which carries the cx- take the position of the farmer haust gases to the outer air, and who, looking the camel in the eye, the seam along the outer shell fa declared: "There ain't no such closed by the welding method. The
result In
of high Anima!!
л muffler It was only after some time effefeney, so constructed that it is had passed that the average practically a single piece of press- passenger became capable of ex-fed metal.
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pressing his wonder in the form of. The internal end disc assembly definite questions. But sooner or of the Model A clutch is fabrical- later he was bound to ask how it fed entirely by spot welding, a pro-i was possible to build into a car cess which in this case involves the tight-knit, springing muscular-the use of a remarkably ingenious ity that enabled it to race at fifty automatic device of Ford design miles an hour over a road where and construction. A toothed disc a pack male would pick its way, of high carbon content is welded and pull up at the finish to a cover plate and end disc of low carbon content! While one sound as when it started.
toothed dises and cover plate are being indexed and welded auto- matically in ten places, another The answer to this question. dise and plate, already welded, are which is certain to be asked by thousands during the next few being removed, and a third load- ed for the fabricating process. months, entails a long story, of
Five spot welds fasten the cover how Ford Engineering has eliminated all but a minimum of plate to the end dise, making a cast parts in favour of forged, total of fifteen welds in all on this
assembly. pressed, and spun steel and by marvellous new methods has fabri-. cated these in combination hither-
Castings Eliminated,
to unachievable.
Fan Modelled After Propeller.
Flash, spot, and aeam welding Ninety per cent. of the new are all employed in fabricating the Model A's structure, is composed fan for the new Model A. The of steel-light, strong, springy, fan pulley is composed of three precisely measurable and cal-pleres-two produced on presser eulable in stoutness and weight, and one an automatic lathe-lash xactly adaptable to the functions and spot-welded into a single- of each part for which it is usual. it. The blade is composed of iwo.pressed steel forms identien]
Rear Axle Housing.
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in shape, which are fabricated by the seam-welding process. The In the Model A the world ares blade is spot-welded to the pulley, The automobile brought out of the fa form the blades embody the foundry for good. The cast in principle on which agroplane gra- method survives chiefly in the pullers are fashioned, and pulls cylinder block, for which the most air, with least resistance, at qualities of east tartal suit iawest expenditure of horsepower
Here.. supporting of any tested during a long period nidhing, it serves with eficiency asof experimentation.
in cureible in which are generat- In the radiatar stay rods of the ed the thrusts of magic power Model A, the welding method has that send the Model A whistling been used to decrease weight across the terrain,
without sacrificing strength. To a
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The rear axle housing of the tale of pressed steel, forged ter- Madel A entboslies splendidly the minals are secured by the flash- combination of material and welding process. The new hand- method from which proceeds the brake lever assembly is another | structural superiority of the new fexample in point. Here the weld- ing process makes it possible to
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In the Model T the rear axle put the trip-rod within the fever. housing was Binde up ut malleable which is formed of a tubular see- casting of considerable size. The tion of pressed steel. same assembly in the Model A is The fabrication of brakeshoes electrically fabricated of forged, for the Model A involves another prossed, and spun steel parts, each Ford Welding development. Each adaptent by special treatment fashot is equipped with lugs which the function it is to perform. The are spot welded on, four at a time, differential housing or 'banjo' is in a Ford-designed machine into composed of a U-shaped section of which they are hopper-fed. Isteri--a standard rolling-mill These examples represent only form-pressed by dies into a circle small number of the total parts) not quite complete. The U-or fabricated by the welding processi Channel-shape gives the housing in the new Model A, but they in- the great strength inherent in this dicate how this method has been form. The circle is closed by the utilized to make the latest Ford differential housing sleeve, which product a new kind of an automo-, Is made in a forging machine, and bile in structure and, consequent- welded to the unconnected ends of ly, in capability. To indicate the the U section by the flash resis- extent to which the new method is tance method in a mechanical wel utilized, it may be well to name a der of Ford design and construc-portion of the other parts, the tion. The assembly is unsurpass manufacture of which involves the ed, in symmetry and strength, welding procens."
The bell sections which adjoin Some of these other parts are: the differential housing are of the steering gear, housing, the round steel-stock, blanked out on starter shaft, the differential ring a forging machine, and spun into gear, the engine pan, the genera bell form on a hot metal spinning for pulley, the brakeshaft, the machine adapted by the company front radius rod, the rear radius to this purpose. After being trim-rod, the oil pump gear, the ol! med in a press, these sections are pump screen reinforcement,, the flash welded to the tubular por-fuel tank gage frame, the fuel: tions of the axle housing in tank, the steel-spoke wheels, the machines of Ford design. These apare tyre carrier, the windshield tubular portions are made of press-frame, and numerous body parts in ed steel, blanked out on a press all models,
in forms somewhat resembling
wedges In dutline. Right and left
sections are identical, and their MAY GO 300 MILES AN HOUR! shape permits their being blank-
ed without waste, After being
By means of a front wheel given their tabular form in a die, drive, automobiles will soon be these sections are placed in au- doing from 80 to 860 miles an hour, tomatically elamping and automa- according to Walter Chrystle, in- tleally fed are-welding machines ventor of this type of drive. of Ford design and construction, Chrystle went on to say that the in which their seams are closed, car he had in mind would have six Spring perches and ball supports wheels, four of the wheels being for the shock absorbers are drop in the front drive and giving the forged Integral, machined harden-ear more weight forward to hold; ed, and flash welded by electrical 'it down at that high rate of speed.
SATURDAY, AUGUST
1928.
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