NEW IMPROVEMENTS.

Press, Volume LXIII, Issue 19153, 9 November 1927, Page 6

NEW IMPROVEMENTS.

TREND OF DESIGN. The modern trend of automobile design has been towards relieving the user of all work or adjustment which could be done automatically. The idea underlying motor-car development is to make motoring easy and time-saving. The machine itself has been developed along the line of being self-lubricating and almost self-adjusting. All unnecessary mechanism has been'eliminated, and the vehicle has been made as selfmaintaining as possible. Probably the extensive use of the motor vehicle bv women and the wide adaptation of it by the owner-driver who cannot afford a chauffeur and whose business leaves him little time for giving attention to the car, have been the causes which have led the designers and manufacturers to devote so much attention to details which in earlier days were not considered important. Chassis lubrication has now been recognised as being so important a matter that it is receiving unusual attention at the hands of those who are interested in catering for the modern nser of self-propelled vehicles. It is obvious that the greasing of all the transmission and suspension mechanisms of the car —often (generally) concealed behind and below valances and running-boards—is not a job suitable for the > woman driver. Neither is it a job which should be imposed upon the much-occupied business or professional man who wants his car ready and fully equipped for the road at all times. From the maker's point of view, again, the simplification of this lubrication probjem makes for longer life and wear ond better and more efficient operation, and must add to the reputation of the firms who completely provide for it. Various forms of automatic chassis lubrication are now on thft market. They are also installed in » large number of well-known cars, and will be found in large numbers as the importance of tbe matter becomes more evident to motorists and to makers. All motorists will be glad to see the developments in this direction, and undoubtedly they will have the effect of increasing the popularity of motoring by removing a verv real objection which many people have to the time and expense attendant upon the proper care of the car in the vital matter of lubrication, and in getting longer life and better service for the capital laid out upon the vehicle

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