THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH. MOTORING SUPPLEMENT.
A. J. S.
SATURDAY, JUNE 29 1929:
THE ROOSEVELT-BUILT BY MARMON.
New Straight Eight Creates Good Impression.
[By Israel Klein.]
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The modest motorist who has had to satisfy himself with a low- priced six in order to adjust his expenses properly to his income, may now graduate unwaveringly to the eight-cylinder class with the introduction of the new Roosevelt.
For here, finally, is a straight eight built by a long-established; and responsible manufacturer and designed by recognized leaders in Automotive engineering, to sell below the $1,000 line. The five- passenger sedan and the standard coupe with rumble seat are listed. to sell for $995 at the Marmon factory here.
Marmon, noted for its series of straight eights, is the builder of this new car. Col. Howard Mar- mon, vice president in charge of engineering, and Thomas J. Litle, Jr., former president of thei Society of Automotive Engineera and now Marmon's chief engineer,
the
aro Roosevelt.
The Roosevelt motor and, below, the solf-adjusting spring shackle used on the new car and the head of the famous president as its insignin.
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driving and comfort, include single fuel and there is no danger of brains behind the button control of starting, lighting "starving" the farthest cylindera
and horn thermostatle cooling; while those clonest to the carbure- The new ear in a typical Mar- aluminum alloy pistons "com- for are "overfed." mon product, with its straight bining the hardness and wearing. Efficient Cooling System: eight design, Irhead motor and qualities of cast iron and the mechanical detalls that originated lightness of aluminum;" two cowl
One great difficulty in straight
in the Marmon laboratories. ventilators; cowl Inmps set close eight design has been that of Several months testing on the to the body so as not to break keeping the valves properly cooled, brick-paved Indianapolis speed-the streamline effect; adjustable Roosevelt engineers have allowed desert and over steering column, and a theft-for enough cooling area around the way, acros mountain have been put into the proof colt lock and ignition switch valves to assure their proper tem- Roosevelt with the result that its with the coll set directly behind perature and to avoid warping and builders are prepared to send the the dnah, making it practically im-pitting.
The chassis là built so that there car out into the world to make possible for a thief to rewire the
eur and circumvent the switch. is a low unsprung weight enabling a name for itself.
the car to cling, to the road "at Built for Economy. | high speed. Semi-elliptic springs Hydraulic shock absorbers are cover more than 80 per cent, of Outside of its price as an eight,|
the car's wheelbase" and their perhaps the most significant fact built into the chassis in the pro: shackles are constructed to be self- about the Roosevelt in its adop-cess of manufacture. tion of mechanical features that are not included in the base price. adjusting with tapered pin and The Roosevelt engine is of the spring clamps at the sides auto- ordinarily are found only in the
matically compensaitha for wear.. higher priced cars. Such, for L-head type, and of the small bore Thus the shackles are said, to re- and long stroke class. Its low
Has Quality Features.
instance, are:
But these
need no attention. 1. Marmon's exclusive high fre-displacement, therefore, is a fac main permanently quiet and to quency modulator to eliminate torsional vibration,
2. Full forco feed lubrication.
for In affording high fuel economy In operation. The engine is satd
The sturdy steel frame with
to develop 70 horsepower at 3,200 steel running boards add to the strength of the steel and wood revolutious a minute.
Contributing to its economic body. The body also is Marmon 3. Down-draft manifold, in- eliciency is the "duplex down-built, a product of the Marmon suring equal distribution of fuel crienenfeld, by which the fuel factory in Indianapolis to all cylinders.
is helped down into the cylinders
What has made the sale of this
4. Self adjusting spring by the force of gravity, assuring car at such a low price possible.. shackles to compensate, for wear.quick use of all gas injected despite its refinements, has been 5. Internal expanding brakes through the carburetor, At the simplified design and "a manufac same time it is so designed that turing schedule. never before of the two-shos lypo.
every intake valve is equidistant attempted for straight eights," Other, features of the Roosevelt from the carburetor. Thus every according to G. M. Willams, Mar-
Intended for better ylinder gets its allotted sliare of mon president..
that are
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