1928-06-28 — Page 11

THURSDAY, JUNE 28, 1928.

CHRYSLER GROWTH.

FORCES CONTINUOUS EXPANSION.

NEW BUILDINGS.

53 acres.

a

BRAKES.

WHERE THE STUDEBAKER SCORES.

WITHIN SAFETY CODE.

SKIDDING.

HOW TYRE ADHESION IS LOST,

WHAT TO DO.

THE CHINA MAIL,

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CLOTH TEST.

MATERIAL USED, IN

„MANUFACTURE.

HIGH STANDARD.

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Chrysler factories, which are Higher road speeds,, more con-

With the possible exceptions of Could you endure In five hours classed to-day among the most gested highways, and greater death by drowning and lying under the equivalent of three months of

traffic density in cities muke it modern, efficient and completely imperative that automobile a tiger's paws, there are few senso- the hottest June sunshine? You equipped in the automobile in- brakes function with a wide mar- tions of absolute helplessness to would probably be willing to chance dustry, have been developed by gin of safety, according to the compare with a really bad akid in a it if the question were put to you rapid but steady expansion cam manager of the Hong Kong motor-car-always supposing that in the middle of winter, but you! paign during the last four years, Hotel Garage, local Studebaker- the driver is rather a novice. In would surely long for Aluska before

Erskine dealers.

the earlier portions of the motorny seconds had passed, while To-day the plant equipment of

"One of the most important im- era skidding was an inevitable and your eyes would probably need a the Chrysler Corporation comprovements in four-wheel brake universal experience. Cara were corps of oculista to repair the prises 12 great units in the Unit-design is the development of the built extremely high; the centre of damage caused by this intense

light. floor area of more than 100 acres, now standard equipment on all contact between tyre and road: any devised for human beings," says ed States and Canada, with amplified action four-wheel braice gravity was for above the point of "Such a test, however, was not The challenge for every foot of Studebaker and Erskine cars. sudden change atecring directionE. W. Milburn, manager of the ficor space which has effected This type brake has unusually was liable to master and destroy Greer-Robbins Company, Hupmobile this rapid expansion is continuing effective braking power, and re- tyre adhesion. Moreover, tyren diatributors in California. to force the way for more addi-sponds to light braking pressure. themselves were very narrow and used for cloth, to determine tioria. Several of these are al- "Tests made at Studebaker's inflated to high pressures, so that resistance to light. ready under way.

The limit of 300-Acre Proving Ground show the co-efficient of friction between time that material will retain its In January, 1924, when Walter that Studebaker and Erskine the tyre and a slippery surface, original colour can be established P. Chrysler announced the first of brakes will stop the cars in 1968 such as a wet tram rail or limestone accurately in this way. the cars to bear his name, two than half the distance set up a grease, was extremely low. All groups of buildings represented standard by official safety codes.

"The object to be tested is placed this has been changed. Cars are in a cabinet fitted with a series of the entire plant equipment. Their "At ten miles per hour the combined floor aren was less than safety code of the American Auto-becoming lower and lower every powerful violat

ray lights. The

·Quite a 'stumpy man mobile Association indicates 12.5year.

strength of this light is so great In addition to the 12 Chrysler feet as a satisfactory stopping ständ beside certain modern that just five hours of it is equal 'plants in the United States and distance. Studebaker and saloons and look clean across the to three months of mid-day June

Canada, Chrysler interests are Erskine brakes bring these cara roof. It la next to impossible to sunshine. By regulating being forwarded by the Societe to a-stop in 4.6 feet, At 15 upset such care, except by running distance of the object from the light Anonyme Chrysler, ut Antwerp. m.p.h. the A.A.A. code indicates two wheels on the same side up a bulbs the cloth is protected from Belgium, and the Chrysler Com-28,1 feet; Studebaker and bank, or by wrenching them round scorching. ̈ ̈ ̈ pany M.B.H. at Berlin, Germany, Erskine test cars stop in 10 feet. at right-angles in their own length "In selecting the upholstery for:

Chrysler's Highland Park plant At 25 m.p.h. the recommended at fairly high speed. The centre of the Hupmobile closed cars, various is one of the largest manufactur-stopping distance is 78.2 feet gravity is so low that little wrench grades and makes of upholstery in ing establishments in the Detroit Studebaker brakes hold at 28 Ing action occurs at the point of a specified colour are tried. industrial area. With a capacity feet. The A.A.A. stopping dis- contact between tyre and ground. test, in connection with an acid test of approximately 1,000 cars aftance at 35, 40, and 40 m.p.h. are Moreover, the broad, pudgy tyres in which determines the quality of the day, it has a floor space of 153.1, 200 and 253 feet respec- common use provide magnificent texture, enable us to choose material 1,355,000 square feet and covers tively. Studebaker and Erskine adhesion with the road. Experi- which will not only give the longest 53.60 acres, It houses the com- brakes bring the cars to a stop at enced drivers hardly ever. notice satisfactory wear but will also re- pany's general offices and in it are 54.8, 71.6, and 90.6 feet respec-any skidding nowadays; and many tain the original colours as to re- built the "52" and "62" models. tively. which have been rolling up an

a novice has never skidded. In-main in harmony with the body Three Shoe Brake. unprecedented record of sales

voluntary skidding is very seldom finish. since their introduction last) "The self energising feature of provoked except by gross driving "When you consider the average August.

Studebaker and Erskine three blunders, or by the excessively amount of sun and light that reach- shoe brake design is largely retreacherous surfaces inherent ines the interior of the car It is evid sponsible for this exceptional certain patent road materials, ent that this short but efficient test The Jefferson Avenue plant in stopping ability. Light pedal which a few surveyors and the is a safe precaution against the loss Detroit ranks as one of the finest pressure turns a cam which Ministry of Transport quite crimin- of an upholstery's original colour in manufacturing establishments of throws the 'primary' and 'auxially permit and encourage when re-a short time. any type in the country. It covers liary brake shoes against the facing roads.

"The test is typical of the thor-) 36.88 acres, and has 917.450 brake drum. The method of The novlee who is afraid of skid-oughness of the many that are) square feet of floor space. Here holding these brake shoes to the ding, possibly as the result of a given to Hupmobile cars. the new 100 horsepower Imperint brake housing is such that the "80" and the Illustrious New "72" rotation of the brake dritm forces single but well-remembered. no-item of the car's total equipment! are built, as well as all Chrysler the secondary shoe against the ment of paule, can readily regain but what undergoes a close inspec- hydraulic four wheel brakes." drum. Thus the actual motion of

Across the street from this the car is utilised to increase Tyre adhesion is only to be destroy plant is the Chrysler Kercheval braking effectiveness, for the edin two ways. Violent braking Avenue body plant, with floor movement of the wheels forces will do it; a rolling wheel usually space. of 687,319 square feet. It the brake shoes tighter and tight-grips; whereas a locked wheel often slides. Excessively abrupt brak. is especially designed for body er against the brake drum manufacturing. The progressive "This feature is termed by ing can throw a car out of control stage conveyor system employed Studebaker as 'emplified-action even on a dry roud; but except on throughout nut only eliminutes since the light pedal action of the an intrinsically greasy surface, the high cost of manual handling driver is amplified into a power-where foothold yould not be too but insures the utmost efficiency ful braking force by the motion safe for a pedestrian, the braking in building a quality product.

of car." The company's own forge and machining plant is at New Castle, Ind. It covers 65.70 acres, and is equipped with the most modern blast furnaces and heat treating apparatus.

One of Finest.

At Dayton, Ohio. Chrysler

A MORRIS SEVEN. TWO-THIRDS THE SIZE OF

THE COWLEY.

maintains what it believes in the most complete service parts de- pot operated by any automobile

A new Morris car is to be put on producer. This plant covers 22.52 the market some time this year-a

acres.

confidence by a little reflection.

must be really ruthless to provoke'u

Not an

tion test at the factory laboratories. To this care in the selection of

materials is due the long ilfe and durability that has always marked

Hupmobile cars,”.

--AND IN-PALESTINE.

As appears to be the case in the akid. In any case such braking is majority of diatrics for which re foolish, for the car will always stop Hable statistics are obtainable, more rapidly if the wheels are not English manufacturors of motor locked. A frightened driver, con- cycles are predominant in the list fronted by a sudden and terrifying of machines registered in Palestine emergency, should never put all on December 31, 1927, according to his strength on his brake pedal with a report from the Director of the. a bang, nor yet haul his handbrake Department of Customs, Excise and right back in one lightning' pull. Trade at Jerusalem. The number The other infallible method of proof Triumph machines easily heads

In it is installed a per- saloon four-seater of seven horse-voking a akid is to swerve abruptly the list, with a total of 129, Peugeot, Here again the spead the woll-known French firm, comes manent record containing the power rating. It will have a four-at speed. specifications of every Maxwell, cylinder engine, with overhead must be really high, of the surface next with a total of 27, Indian Chalmers and Chrysler, car ever valves actuated by an overhead genuinely treacherous, for a car to machines are third with a total of built, as well as a constantly re-camshaft-raber an unusual fea-go out of control. The driver, who 19, and B.S.A. fourth, with a total of 18. The total number of re- filled stock of every part of all ture in this class-of-car-Brakea Corners rationally and applies his

gistered machines was 260, out-of] these cars. Its central location to on all four wheels will be atted, brakes progressively and firmly, which well-known English firms the great centres of population and its general design will be on will only skid on a freak surface.

supplied 167.. gives dealers and owners of every thoroughly modern lines, embody- The Bane driver need have no car ever made by these three ing the latest practices.

qualms at all. companies rapid service for every | The price has not yet been fixed. part

When a skid occurs, perhaps ori a

There are at present four of this bituminous surface, lightly filmed it, ha will begin to turn his front Canadian Plant.

class of car on the British market, with damp, the driver should re-wheels to the left, and immediately taxed at under £9, the Austin member that there is no danger ex afterwards brake violently. The The Chrysler Corporation of Suyen, the Jowett Seven, the Singer cept that of collision, unless of car will skid to the left, and when Canada, Limited, a subsidiary Junior, and the Triumph, priced course he has been driving crazily. It has swung sufficiently to ineure corporation is at Windsor, Ont. respectively at £186, £134, 2140, and He should have prepared his mind his rounding the bend, he will take Acquisition of additional factory £149 108., and the entrance of the by realising that lots of expert off his brakes, and proceed. Sur- space within, recent months has Morris concern into this market is drivers provoke skids deliberately, prisingly little judgment is requir expanded its area to 358,278 signifiennt of the popularity enjoy as shall be detailed below. If heed to perform this manoeuvre, and square feet of floor space, equip-ed by the miniature car with its keeps his head, he can regain con- It has quite often been executed in- ped with the most modern ma- surprising performance and its all-trol of his car in a secund or 80 voluntarily by ordinary drivers, chinery and other facilities.

round handinese.

The urgent need is to put the car their subconscious efforts to avoid

In line with its policy of con- Mr. W., R. Morris, in an inter- under control again, which entails disaster. They find they cannot tinuous expansion, and to meet view, said that the new car will be his restoring tyre adhesion. For steer clear of some unexpected obs increased demands created by the approximately two-thirds of the this purpose he must take off his facle; they lamb their brakes hard introduction of the new Imperial size of an ordinary Morris-Cowley. brakes, so that the wheels can re on, with the steering at full lock; "80,". Chrysler; during 1027, took over additional factory floor in the early stages of designing the volve freely; he must withdraw his provoke a skids skid clear of the space at Maybury Grand and new model the greatest secrecy was clutch, so that the engine puts no obstacle; take their brakes off to Hancock avenues, Detroit. Here observed at the Morris works at "anatch" on the driving wheels: correct the skidi and find they have it manufactures and assembles its Cowley, near Oxford, and hush- and he should steer gently "into the escaped a catastrophe. But if any- own custom bodies for that car. hush road tests were made at mid- skid". for a yard or sú. The last body wishes to see skláding deve- The acquisition represents an ad- night.

point requires a brief explanation: Toped into sheer artistry, he should dition of 126,481 square feet to "Strictly speaking, the new car Imagine that his wheels are allding pay a visit to one of the newly the company's floor space., k ccased to be a secret about three bodily to his left; if he resists the opened tracks on which motor

The

latest addition to its weeks ago," said Mr. Morris. "It slide by steering to the right, the cyclists indulge in "broadsiding," bulding programme is a four was then that rumours began to get car will not answer, for a greater as the new sport of dirt track rac- story structure for the engineer- about among people in the motor force is slinging it in the opposite ing on two wheels is called. Here fng department. It is mow nearing trade. On the strength of these direction; but if he yields to the he may see Paddy Dean or "Sprout" completion. It will include offices rumours, agents began placing slide, and restores tyre adhesion Elders, or Billy Lamont demon- for the engineering executives orders for the new car, and so we (eg, by stopping the braking and strate a continuous skid perhaps a and will provide improved facili did not deny that a new model was relieving his back wheels of the mile long round a tiny circuit of ties for automobile research ex-baing designed, the knowledge gra-drive) the slide towards the left loose earth at speeds, as high as 60 periments and tests. Amork its dually spread amous agents, will merge into z deliberate steer to m.ph. It is a stupendous sxhibi- unusual festumes will be an ice But, up to the time when the the left; and ad soon plant, with which cars can be Bret agents' orders were placed, the bite, which will tested under all conditions of car really was a secret. One of the very few fee hu temperature and humidity; dyna mometer test rooms for exhaust People in the secret at that time regained steering control

was my wife. She is a woman who his direct. underground, an air

Vous not give away secrets, and shotz Delf washing pyetem, chassis roll test-

For always has my confidence Inftes

ing machinery, hydraulic,

car observation

facilities

Peah, eléctr

Laboratories,

caine shop, desi

perimental

Body

developments.

Wie is ridiculous to say,

Intention in making t

na compete

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seam to thi

painting - departments and test to cruah the

and experimental garages.

market which

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and intent

ren tion of the genius of balancing one.

cur in self. Neither wheel may point

his within degre

the direction In which the racer is proceeding zos of the distance. The sting

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