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The new Buick is the new Style
More than handsome... more than luxurious... a wonderful new type of motor car beauty. thrilling turning point in body design
It will be imitated, of course! The new, the fine and the beautiful always inspire emulation. But so great is the cost of building the magnificent new Fialier bodies for the Silver Anniversary Duick that imitation will be possible only to much costlier cars, and even these will find difficulty in following where Buick lends!
$1,500,000 has been expended in manufacturing the dies alone for the new Buick bodles; and the gracefully curving sido panels which form one of their distinguishing characteristics represent the most expensive stool paneling work employed on any automobile in the world! But it is not in thu matchless grace and beauty of exterior de aign alone that the Silver Anniversary Buick eclipses other cars. The velvet mo-
Lair upholstery in the closed models-the
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hardware and filments--the many appointments of luxury and convenienos-are all of the richest quality; and the bracing of the bodies, which im- parts strength and durability and freedom from queaks and rattles, is the most efficient and effective known to motor car practice.
In dashing beauty-as in fleet, powerful perform sace-the world holds no equal for the Silver Anniversary Buick with Masterpioes Bodies by Fisher.
It is more than handsome, more than luxurious It marks a thrilling turning point in body design.
THE SILVER ANNIVERSARY
BUICK
WITH MASTERPIECE BODINE BY FIGURA
And the mutoring public, buying in auch tremendous volume as to force the great Buick factories to, work day and night to supply the demand, is elevating it to the prominence of a voguel
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MOTORING SUPPLEMENT, SATURDAY, DECEMBER 1, 1928.
ROADS AND SPEED. Relation of Width to Safety.
TRAFFIC NEEDS.
TYRE FABRICS, Ultimate Mileage of Tyres.
GOODYEAR METHODS.
"Build on a solid foundation," Nothing that comes within the science of road construction, from is age-old advice and applies to the nature of the soil to the shape tyres as well as to buildings, for, tyres are popularly of the hedges, has been overlooked although, by Mr. Reginald Ryves In the com-described as rubber tyres, cotton prehensive survey of the subject he plays a big part in their construc- makes in "The King's Highway:tion. In fact cotton made into the Nature, Purpose, and Devolop fabric and impregnated with rub- ment of Roads and Road Systems" ber is the foundation of a tyre. (St. Bride's Press). To Mr. Ryves, One of the first manufacturers as a professional engineer, the to recognize that the cord frame- words of the prophet, that "every work or foundation has more to do valley shall be exalted and the with the ultimate mileage of a tyre crooked shall be made straight" than anything elao, was the Good- have more than a mystical signi-year Company. Years ago they ficances, but he has sympathy with set to work to determine exactly the "conservative-aesthete" who which species of cotton should be fears Improvement" of highways used and how it should be con and byways.
structed and bullt into the tyre. Mr. Ryves assures. those who are After the various kinds of fabric nervous of modern developments were made, they were built into that "the dedication of additional Goodyear tyres and exhaustivo width to a road does not necessarily laboratory and rond tests were imply a wider and dustier carriage conducted. It was during these way that the Improvement of tests that engineers found that the hedges by no meatis involves main cause of unsatisfactory mile- general lowering, but im lies rais-nge or premature fallare ing a great many of them; that "fabric fatigue." Ordinary cord the best roadmaker does not favour seemed always to lose its fe after the indiscriminate aplying off of the tyres had run but a few thou- corners....that he refuses fully to sand miles.
Practical Advice.
WRS
cord
provide for the demand of owners This was caused by the lack of of swift and heavy motor-cars; and stretel, flexibility and durability of that he contemplates Increasing the the Individual cords which mado number of shade and other trees up the body of the tyre. The tread and shrubs along a great many stood up, it was discovered, but the roads."
cords did not conform to the natural rolling action of the tyres and A valuable chapter, gives pracovery time the tyre struck an tical advice to the highway englacer obstacle in the road, cach on, the questions of width and would stubbornly resist the blow. safety. Mr. Ryves writes:
The result was a quick failure of "When wide roads are demanded fabric in the boly of the tyre. in the interests of throuch traffic,
In order to correct this condition, It is often forgotten that, however the engineers worked cut a frame. convenient wide roads may seem to work that was usually durable and be, It is not through traffic for flexible. Each cord was spun of which they are a necessity. Wide Abre cotton and woven in such a roads are mostly needed where manner that it would stretch and there, is a considerable amount of recover time and again before losing through traffic added to local trafic, its flexibility.
It is where traffic of many kinds This highly elastic tyre cord and many speeds-builders' barmaterial overcomes "fabric fatiguo" rows, bakers' carts, governess' care, and has made Goodyear tyres give groups of boys on bicycles in the the long mileage that they do. evening, grooms with led horses,
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Sometimes the on-
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The orders from South America
Journeya recently performed by Thornycroft six-wheeled vehicles'
land the Argentine.
and nursemaids with perambu roads made of a standard width lators plus tooso children throughout are apt to become grass- are encountered that a greater grown in places, or even to be nar- width
road than that owed by the road authority.. which suffices elsewhere may Standard width is a particularly un- be required. This kind of mixed happy idea in hilly districts, where Thornycrofts Overseas. are a sequel to some remarkable traffic is not only encountered in it involves heavy cuttings. With villages, where the speed of encourages speed, while, on the through traffic should be very low other hand, an easy tumble into 6-WHEELERS POPULAR. through undeveloped parts of Brazil
any five miles an hour-but la thorns or a jolting on to a rough
Orders to a total value of many
The riglu six-wheel motor vehiclo also met with on stretches of road ground is not so seductive a form
is essentially a British production, several miles in length, between of life annurance as to tempt the thousands of pounds have recently villages and small towns, where it drivers of vehicles to indulge in been received by John 1. Thorny- and no firm has done more than would be unreasonable to fix so low high speeds. a maximum speed, and where some gineer, after seeking in vain for craft & Co., Ltd., for their various John I. Thornycroft & Co., Ltd., to width, and being obliged to content types of rigid six wheeled vehicles develop this for overaese transport extra width is often convenient."
himself with a narrow road with for shipment to South Africa, where its capabilities of traversing open country are enabling outlying Specialization Condemned, Mr. Ryves regards "standard rather dangerous fences, compasses South America, India, &c.
Many of these are for augment- districts to be developed commercial- widths" as unreasonable as standard the same and by other means, For Popularity of the Car.pde. To give English main instance, he constructs the roading the already very large fleet of which previously have been roads a standard width, or uniform crust of very hard materials, such similar vehicles owned by the handicapped by entire lack of trans One of the explanations assign-width," he writes, "would be to give as do not wear to a slimy mud, and South African Government Rall port of dependent. upon animal A large number of Thornycroft ed by Chrysler officials for the de-way to one of the most insidious he makes it very compact, strong ways, who are operating over 4,000 transport alone, mand which their ears have met discases to which highways are and true to camber. He instructs miles of regular motor services.
specialization, the roadmen to keep this piece of A fleet of 66 are for the Govern- vehicles have also been sold in ever since their first appearance subject--that is, is their high resale value in the The varying circumstances of road road well swept and to scatter grit ment of India, following a series of China.
de nand varying widths, and main if needful."
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That this reaale is a general characteristic of automobile condi- tions is attested by market quota- tions in all parts of America, the officials declare.
"Motor cura long ago passed out of the luxury class," said J. W, Frazer, Chrysler sales manager while discussing this matter re- cently. "To-day the stable citizen locks upon his automobile as being just as much a necessary invent- He may ment as his home. change his car from time to time. In fact, it is the usual custom to turn it in or trade it after a cer- tain amount of usage, but always there is at least one automobile in the family garage of American families nowadays, and the prac-| tice of owning a second car in rapidly gaining ground.
"Naturally in planning the pur- chase of such a considerable itém In his assets an owner keeps in view all the casential elements of Bound inveating, among which nona is more important than mar- ketability
"The Chrysler resale value is duo largely to the knowledge now gen- erally possessed by the public that an unusual amount of perform. ance and durability is built into every Chrysler car, with the result that after the average period of use there still remains in it a re- servo of mileage, comfort and low cost of operation that makes a used Chrysler the equal of many other automobiles still fresh from the factory and classed as new."
A LUCKY PUNCTURE Caused by Diamond.
Like other motorists, R. M. Smith, of Delhi, N.Y., cussed bo- cause of a delay caused by a flat tyre, but was agreeably surprised to find a small diamond the cause' of his trouble. Evidently lost from a ring, it is appraised at
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