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to solve this dangerous and ox- asperating whip which for so many yours had resisted all attempts at rectification," Douglas said. "Tho new Buick improvement absolutely. climinaton 'all trace of whip and gives, an cane of driving control that requires no physical effort.
"The road shock climinator is as as it is simple in construction efficient in operation. In deslan- ng the new car Buick engineers, Such is the information convey-instead of planing the front end of ed by Roy C. Douglas, super- the left front apring immovably to intendent of the Howard Auto- the frame, shackled it so that the meblla Company. Douglas points to the now rond shock eliminator Introduced to the automotive world for the first time. by the 1930 Buicks at their initial presentation Havoral weeks ago,
At last, "ateering wheel whip," bone of the automotive driver for years, has been overcome.
in this shackle taking up the shick of the impact and prevent- ing it from reaching the steering wheel.
"The result la that when a severe bump is struck, the force of the jolt, instead of being carried up to the steering wheel, is spent in forcing the axle back slightly on the steering gear side, due to the give of the heavy springs in the rond shock eliminator. The steer, ing wheel remains stendy in the hands of the driver, instead of twisting as cach bump is encoun- spring may play back and forth attered, and the car can be driven this point as well as at the rear, safely over rough roads at speeds but the play of the front shackle that are hazardous without this is modulated by mounting two stiff device. coil springs at either side of the bottom of the shackle.
"Ordinarily these, stiff springs "Perfection and installation of this new device on the 1930 Buicks hold the front shackle stationary, climaxes years of study on the the main play being in the rear General shackle, but if the surface of the part of engineers of Motors Corporation and the Buick rond is unusually rough the front Motor Company in their endeavourshinckle will yield, the stiff springs
"It has also been found that thin device is very effective in dampen- Ing out front wheel shimmy at high speeds. With the Buick road shock eliminator the movement of the front axle is taken up in the eliminator instead of being trans- ferred to the drag link. As a re-
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Sultan Buys a Car.
BUILDS ROADS LATER.
Aba Jiffar, portly and aged Sul- lan of Dilmma, a smull state of Abyssinin, has bought a car-and thereby hangs a tale of a feat of automobile salesmanship and how one car caused the highway system of Diimma to change from mule tracks to modern ronds.
Aba, according to Motor, British He automotive magazine, was wise in bargained shrewdly and garnered handing the empire's goods, much wealth-in addition to several wives. One day, after a somewhat
SATURDAY, DECEMBER 14, 1929.
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jarring mule trip of 230 miles Trom Djiren, the capital of his state, to Addis Abbaba, the capital of Abys sinia, he saw an automobile at the local denler's in that city.
Sultan Jiffar reasoned that It would be much easier on his portly form to ride the cushions of n luxurious Bedan than the bony back! of a mule, so he bought the car- never figuring that he'd have an awful time driving it around trees and across the rivers of his rondless realm.
The dealer guaranteed to deliver the car to the sultan, and Michel Terzian, an Armenian mechanic, got the job of delivering it.
With four assistants, Michel started out with the Vauxhall se. dan, In the ear he carried a load of gasoline a few spare parts, forestry implements and the ear's tool kit.
The first day out Michel had to construct a bridge over the Aouche river. He and his assistants felled trees, bound them with cord, nail- ed erosa pleces and laid the bridge.
The car was safely transported across and continued.
The next day the party encoun- tered another river, down to which they had to cut ritaways because of the steep banks, and then ford the low water. The third day out he had to construct another bridge and the fourth another.
On the fifth day, Michel and his party encountered a number of dried-up river beds strewn withi huge boulders which barred pas kake Most of these hud to be broken up, atliers removed, and the river beds levelled to permit the car's passage. The car had to be unloaded before each crossing and reloaded on the other side. This part of the trip toak two days.
Then they encountered a descent so sleep that gasoline flowed by gravity from the tank into the vacuum tank. It took them a day and a half to accomplish this de- Beent. At the bottom they hit an- other fard, the bed of the river! being full of atones which had to be removed. Nine days after starting the trip, and after having built a special elbow from the exhaust and funnel around the curburetor to prevent water from stopping the engine, the party made the ford.
After crossing the river, they en- tered the territory of Sultan Aba Jiffar and here they were met by an exulting delegation sent by Abat to offer them aid. Escorted by the aiding party, Miehel and his four assistants came within sight of
Dijiren 15 days after "they had started on the trip of only 230 miles!
Naturally, after Sultan Aba got his ear, he wanted to une it. He had a paralyzed brother in another city, but couldn't visit him in the car because there were no traver- suble ronds. So he hired Michel to build him a few.
After Michel constructed the roads, the sultan's gasoline supply ran out. He sent back to Addis Abbaba for some more and at var- ious spots. along the nation's new highway system ho set up caches of gasoline and spare parts..
And now the mighty Aba rides with a dignity befitting a sultan.. sult the 1930 Buick can be driven in a straight line at tremendous speeds without showing a tendency to wander, as immediately after absording the shock, the front spring is returned to its original: normal position."
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