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MOTOR-CAR OF 1934

NOVELTIES IN ABUNDANCE REVEALED FOR FIRST TIME

PICTORIALE SUPPLEMENT

STARTLING

INNOVATIONS IN THE

DESIGNERS PRODUCE MINOR REVOLUTION IN THE NEW MODELS

NEW IDEAS IN THE ART OF CAR VENTILATION

General Motors' ‘Knee Action'

KING PIN ABOUT

"WO-WAY HYDRAULIC

-ABSORBERS

- WHICH UNIT SWIV

IDUAL.

"DEAD AXLE"

FRAME

STEERING

This cut-away photograph shows how the "kneo aellon" on most Generni Matora automalities works. It is shown on the new Pen- tlac. The "knes" to really a lever between the wheel and the dual coil springs which replace this regular typu of spring. The action of the springa is controlled by the shock absorbers, all in the same oll filled housing. The entire unit swings about a sturdy king pin on the short "dead axlo" that is bolted to the frame. Thus the springs turn with the wheels and control their up and down motion fade-

pendently of the other wheels,

see some

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BY ISRAEL KLEIN Buspension of the front wheels. of But wait until you

the EW YORK, Jan. 12.-You've the now bodies such NEW

80mc heard enough about so-called Chryslers, the De Soto, and "knee-action" on the new cars of sport models of the Hupmobile. 1934 to be prepared for this

Walter Chrysler has gone innovation. But there still are

unconventional. tirely

He has more surprises coming-radical

scrapped all the former models in changes in body design; ventilation ideas; two new sixes, his Chryslers and De Soto for a body that has been pushed forward one under, a new name; besides improvements in riding comfort,nearly 20 inches, in relation to the steering, engine economy, head-wheels, and that represents the lighting and many other features.

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of streamlining most advanced ideas yet ventured. Greatest technical interest cen- Only his Plymouth and Dodge tres about the much-touted "knee-still can be recognized as related action" or Independent spring to the automobiles of 1933.

An example of the "knes pelion" in the now automobiles In this coll spring and Javor combination shown on a front wheel of the new Plymouth. Thoro is no front axle; the forward wheels act independently of aach other and smoother riding is said to result.

DRASTIC CHANGES MADE There is a more acute slant to the windshield and the back. The radiator curves backward with a hood that hides all but the lenses of the headlights.

Greater vision for the driver is afforded by this low-typo windshield on the 1934 Hupmobile. There's more alopa to the front, and the sides' aro -"baveled" back, bringing the front pillars farther

If the type of suspension used by the rest of the family proves more Buccessful.

A third type of "knees" is of- fered as optional equipment by Hudson-Terraplane. Here the front axle is not discarded entirely.

one

to the roar.

No longer will your baggage crowd you in the rear of the car. For, as this picture shows, many of the now cars bavo room for equipment behind the rear seat. Tho back of the sont raleos up..as In the Dodge shown here. The same space is reached from the roar in other card.

both sixes, and concentrate on the engineers say the air comes in one efficiency. Auburn, also, is consid- opening and slides smoothly out erato of your guests by placing the four.

through the other without discom- fort to the riders, but keeping the air Inalde fresh at all times.

SIDESWAY IS OVERCOME. And In place of "knees," the Beacon sports a transverse front spring, like Ford, and two longitu

dinal cantilever springa In year.

These are the outstanding im- theprovements for 1934, but there are many more novelties, although not so significant as "knee action" and

Inside, the car discards the con-

Instead, it is divided into two ventional seating structure for the modern type of chromium-plated sections, between which is a rec- There's only one shock absorber, framework-ultra-modern in all re-tangular link which permits

front centre, which Continental en- side of the axle, and the wheel itgineers say is even more effective Every car in the Chrysler line holds, to respond to a bump inde-than two on the sides, fighting

pendently of the other side.

against each other when the car

specta,

will have its front wheels bouncing other on Independently of each separate springs. These are coll

#ways.

On some of the larger cars, like

ventilation.

rear door window handles at the top, prevent tearing of clothes if the handle were in its conven- tional position.

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OTHER FEATURES GALORE And there are other individual

features, of this sort, in nearly all the other cars. A supercharger for Many of the cars, for example, the custom model Graham; an au- have the new type of cross-beam tomatic starting arrangement in the headlighting, by which the lights Nash, by which the clutch pedal is aross, each other and the right depressed for action; adjustable beam can be deflected while pass-speed windshield cleaners on the Auburns and Studebakers; adjust- able dash lights-bright, dim,. or. out on the Studebakers,

springs attached by levers, or what You can get this same type of Dodge, De Soto, and LaSalle, side. ing an approaching car.

General Motors calla, "knees," to the frame and the wheel in such way that, while the wheel may rise or drop from a bump, the car it- self remains level.

There are no "knees" on the rear wheels--so that happens to the passengers in the rear still is n problem. Except, of course, In the case of the Chryslers and the De

HUDSON HAS "AXLEFLEX".

Hudson calls this "axleflex."

springing on the New six Nash is bringing out the LaFayette, named after Nash's classy La- Fayette of former years.

The LaFayette and two new sixes that, will carry the Auburn name are this year's infants. There's nothing exceptionally dit ferent in these new cars, except that LaFayette han an I-head Soto, which swing the passengers engine, instead of the regular Nash valve-in-head, and it em- bodies the "axleflex" type of knee action. There are no knees on the new Auburns.

a little forward of the rear axle.

BUICK ALSO HAS "KNEES,"

Buick's mecs" are somewhat

similar to the Chrysler type, but most General Motors cars have their coll springs placed in oil filled cases, along with a set of two- way shock absorbers.

Buick, probably, will follow suit,

away is being overcome by means of a bar across the rear.

The cars then, can take curves at high speeds without throwing the rear passengers in a heap to one side-partially, at least,

Of course,, practically all new automobiles will follow the lead of General Motors and Fisher body with some sort of ventilation ar rangement.

KEEPS AIR FRESH.

STEERING IS ALTERED.

Knee action has brought on A now type of steering, called "cross- steering." Here, the steering gear is brought to the centre of the framo, between the wheels, and op

crates the wheels by means of a

lover arrangement attached to the

frame.

Then, too, there is the baggage room under the rear seat, entered by lifting the seat back, or through: the outside rear on Dodge and. others; the new oil conditioning

thermostatically-controlled hood lou- systems in Packard and Stutz; vers on the Stutz; place for the fifth All chassis are strengthened by wheel inside the rear, on the Hud- X-members, but Studebaker goes u

son and Terraplane; and so on. atop farther and fortifies the frame

A review of these, innovations by means of a box-like construction,shows that more attention has beari Some, like Ford and Lincoln, instead of the conventional H, U, or paid to the body and chassis than will permit a narrow vertical opon-L form.

to the engine. But, while the The smallest cars will continueing when an extra turn of the win-

The new Auburn sixes have an engine has had its share of Im- additional cooling arrangementprovement, it really didn't need so to be the Austin, the little Willys, dow handle is taken. Others, like and Continental's "Beacon"-all Studebaker, have a slot half-way fours. Continental has decided to along the top of the front window, around the valves, to keep them much engineering as did the rest

or front and rear windows, and from warping and so losing their of the car. drop its Ace and Flyor models,

Sweeping Curves Give Hupp Speed and Beauty

Tear-Drop Lines Help Raise LaSalle Mileage

There'n a smooth and speedy appearance about this now Hupmobile three-passanger coupe that actually in realized in greater power and economy of the engine. This is the most radical of the Hupp models, Although the sharp edges on the standard bodies hava boen rounded of gracefully..

Engineers have learned that the ideal shape to buck the wind most economically is the tear-drop. So they have applied this form to their cars. In the LaSalle, above, and its big brother Cadillac, you may Boties this effect in the dealgn of the fendors and aprons, the parts that strike the wind 'first,

Nash Brings Out New Six

Chrysler for 1934 Takes Radical Step in Design

No More Ugly Rear Tire View

Ifora is n front view of the now LaFayette, Nash's offering in the amall car rangu. It's a six, with an L-head engine, while the Nashes are valvo-in-lichds. Naah got the name for thin automobile from the de luxo LaFayette it bulit years ago,

One of the most startling developments in automobiles for 1934 in the design of the bow, Chryslers, and their klo, De Sotos. It represents the height of streamlining, oven to rounding of the radiator and flaring of the headlights within the front of the hood The entire body actually is moved forward in.. relation to the wheels, so that all passungers are sontod between the axles, for greater riding comfort,

No longer!held the spare tire, mar the beauty of the: automoblis's 'rear end,"for" a place lins boen found for the nith wheel under the back seat. Hudson and Terraplano, for instance," have a compart- ment, in back as shown here, where tire or baggage may be placed, And, the result is a clean, graceful, exact.