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THE CHINA MAIL,

THURSDAY, JUNE 20, 1929,

SAM THE MOTORISTS' PAGE

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CARS

CHRYSLER MOTORS ORIGINAL CREATION

́CULMINATION OF GREAT

VISION

What is Chrysler Motora and

NEW STEARNS-KNIGHT COUPE

MODERN BUYER

INTEREST IN MECHANICAL FEATURES

-The present day motor car buyer Inspired by an artistic creation at

to attention more what does it signify to the public the recent Paris salon, the Brunn is paying and the automotive industry? custom built convertible coupe is mechanical details than ever before, ite one of the most distinctive, special not alone in the high priced field but Chrysler Motors is, from

aide the Physical

grouping models of the new Stearns-Knight in the low priced field as well Whether it be a four or six cylinder of all that goes into

the eight-cylinder series. building and designing.

dis- -The top of this car is fully col- modal, the buyer shows more intim- tribution of the Chrysler, the lapsible and In addition the glass. ate knowledge of the mechanics of Imperial, the Plymouth, the De Soto can be lowered into the panels so a car than previously, seeking a and the Dodge Brothers motor cars that when the top is down it gives product that embraces in its con and Dodge Brothers trucks, motor the same effect as a touring car with struction all elements that are fac speed, coaches and buses a great group the top down. The driver's and tora in providing power, of cars; all branches on the same front passenger's seats are a semi- smoothness, acceleration, economical tree and all growing out of the bucket type, both of which are fully operation, longer life and in general Chrysler root-principle of Standard adjustable and can be moved for a high standard of performance.

This fact is shown in the high backward approximately ived Quality originated and first ward or

volume of sales that have been con- The rear seat is applied by Chrysler-a principle 3 1/2 inches. which inevitably lifts both quality full conventional type but has a tinuous since the introduction of the and value each ear contributing to centre drop type arm rest which can new Superior Whippet. Six a few and sharing the manufacturing be folded into the back cushion oaths ago.

Buyers of this new Willys-Over- when not in use. efficiencies of all the rest.

Chrysler Motors is a grouping of The upholstery trimming of this land product show a marked interest motor car properties to render a Stearne-Knight convertible coupe is in its seven-bearing crankshaft better public service. That is the offered in a variety of optional de- which automotive engineers declare keynote of this new economic force signs for individuality. One very to be necessary to a six cylinder car! in the industry, which, while preattractive trim uses Wiese's broad- to provide smooth and silent opera serving a complete separate idently cloth although effective results are tion and eliminate engine vibration. In the products and their distribu- obtained by Coulom cloth, an im Willys-Overland in employing a seven-bearing crankshaft in its low tion, welds together the advantages ported material and others.

In the development of this priced Whippet Six is said to have! resulting from the unified polley of engineering, purchasing manufac: Stearns-Knight coupe, Brunn, the set a definite tread which other turing and financing under one custom body designer, embodied all manufacturers in the same price! the rood features and eliminated class will adopt in the near future personal head.

Chrysler Motor's manufacturing the bad ones from the original idea|in order to keep pace with the e- facilities and financial resources are he received In Paris. He first built mand of the buyer. ⠀

Finger Tip Control 10 vast and its combines distributa body similar to this on the chassis

Other outstanding mechanical fea- Ing outlets so numerous that every of another make but instead of-a

a full seat in the rear he merely had tures of the Whippet Six include price class is supplied with Chrysler Motora product--and each two jamp seats so they could be full force feed lubrication to all |

turned back if necessary and the main and connecting rod bearings, the finest in-its class.

Chrysler Motors is different in baggage carried on the floor. It crankshaft bearings, camshaft bear- was from this job that the Stearnings and timing chain; "Finger-Tip inspiration, in development, in con- ception, in development and frui- Knight creation really originated. tion, from anything else which may appear to be like it in the industry -and therein lie its greater possi bilities for benefit to the public now and for the future.

The idea of Chrysler Motors was in the mind of Walter P. Chrysler before even the first Chrysler was produced.

For five years, Chrysler has gone steadily forward inspired by that ideal.

Deeper Significance

Control," which places at the finger tips of the driver a single control buttton to start engine, operate they are actual because they begin lights and sound the horn; extra with these basic thingaard, carry ong wheelbase which has permitted on through the testing and the seler new and larger body with spaci- tion of metals and material with ousness usually found in higher precision machinery, establishing Priced ears; Nelson type aluminiam and maintaining a uniformly high var-strut pistons, extra long con- recting rods, adjustable silent tim- standard of quality manufacturing ing chain, which is a factor in the Whippet's quiet and smooth opera- for all cars alike.

ion; oversize balloon tyres and

In each ear or each plant were a separate entity operating on its

Only last summer there appeared own," little would be gained by

grouping. them together.

By a

shock absorbeers.

Unusual attention also is centered! on the newly designed Whippet Six a series of announcements regard sheer process of natural develop frame which is termed to be safer ing Chrysler preparing the way for men, Chrysler Motors has gone and stronger because of additional the introduction of the new models far, far beyond this. The coheavy Cross members Lembodying the new style that reoperation among the units, existed

F

Each of these vital features take

styles all motor cars. But, read in long before Chrysler Motors was an important part in the high stan-

they

the light of what has come to pass, born The underlying principle dard of performance set by the new now show a still deeper has been in operation from the day Whippet Six, this performance be- significance.

of the first Chrysler car.

ing comparable with cars selling in Take this prophetic series of

Out of this principle has grown the higher price field. advertisements to-day, read them the logical necessity for Chrysler over in the light of the announce Motorsa conserving, economizing, ment of Chrysler Motors, and they efficiency-increasing force benefit- give an illuminating idea of the ing the buyer of every Chrysler vision and of the planning and of product from first to last, no mat- the foresight of Walter P. Chrysler ter what its trade name.

and why and how he builds for. public service.

The degree of benefit which the buyer derives from the joint opera All that has gone before makes tion of any group of industrial pro

it very sure that Chrysler Motors. parties is in direct ratio to the

of a century.

WHIPPET BEST

PROFESSOR'S WORD OF

PRAISE

The Whippet has a constantly who is spreading boosting friend the good word throughout Southern

friends for the line through that valuable of all advertising,

in Southern Cali-

in the generally accepted meaning of extent to which these properties are California--and making countless the term, is not the usual grouping able to help one another. together of separate companies, Chrysler Motors is the highest ex- most each under its own separate manage pression of the principle of mutual owner enthusiasm.

Prof. Maxwell A, Smith is the mant, with which American bus-help reduced to its most practical ness has been familiar for a quarter form. It is in a very real sense head of the department of French an insurance of the quality of every in the University of Chattanooga. There have been associated motor thing made and maketed by He, with his family, is spending his car units before. There has never Chrysler Motors, because all of these Sabbatical year been an association like Chrysler Chrysler Motors products must fornis and just recently drove Motors, in which all of the units conform to the same high standard. through to the west coast from his Leach designed for its own particular They are in fact compelled to do home in Tennesseeld dat market-issue from the one im- so because conformity is of neces Prof. Smith appreciates service mense group of plants and share sity enforced at the outset by and rewards it) This, he proves by alike the advantages which accrue higher standards of engineering writing a word of appreciation to from combined engineering, pur-precision, manufacturing, and in the salesman who sold him his car. The car was purchased from the chasing, manufacturing and financ-spections

Main Street Motor Company, ing, all under one personal head

Willys-Overland dealer in Chat- Notwithstanding the rigid rule tanooga. The more dealers who ficent new engineering building, with its vast modern research of adherence to these higher stand will obtain written commendation laboratories the very last word ris, Initative and ingenuity are for the line such as this, the more in equipment for advanced scienti- given free play in each plant. This successful dealers and salesmen fic development is as much is evidenced by the products them the source and centre of salves, In their union of resourcer creation for Dodge Brothers the companies constituting Chrysler as for Chrysler, for DeSoto, Motors are a unit but otherwise for Plymouth, for Dodge Brothers they are free, independent, self and Fargo commercial card, trucks regulating entities. Each is after a ins trip of 14 days, of which and buses for every individual dividual, diferent, characteristic product which issues from the similar only in the basit goodness, plants of Chrysler Motora. which is shared alike by all

This Chrysler princi

Thus, Chrysler Motor's magni-

Actual Economies

Union of Resources

Economies rom consolidation practical one have all too often in the past been and commercially soun theoretical In Chrysler Motorscgical, and, more than all

58sures greater value to the

cally

It

y

there will be enrolled under the Willys-Overland banner

Professor Smith's letter

I know you will be glad to hear that we reached Los Angeles safely

two days were spent en route visit- ing friends and sightseeing. Our only garage stop was at Amarillo, Teaxar, where we paid 25 cents for a small repair and seventy cents for readjustment of brakes,

"We made 2,750 miles at a cost of less than two cents per mile for Chrysler Motor Froduct petrol, oil and grease We had a Will iftly become.

CUS mileage of 20.3 per gallon of fuel. The The Whippet fan beautifully and with that which is reliable. name saker already stands, the never belied even cu the steepest of world

grades of which there were many in quality

The mountales. Hope to see you next summer.

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