STANDARD PARTS FOR MOTORS.

Gisborne Times, Volume XXVI, Issue 2160, 8 April 1908, Page 4

STANDARD PARTS FOR MOTORS.

A STARTLING TEST. (From tho “Motor” (London) January 28. We often read that this, that, or the other manufacturer has so standardised his productions that any portion can bo obtained upon request and can be immediately delivered from tlio factory. This is done every day in the week, but it does not necessarily follow tlnut when the part arrives it will fit accurately, and more often than not much filing and turning will be necessary before it can be fitted to a car. The manufacturers of the Cadillac car claim that, owing 'to the large number of cars turned out per annum, they liavo been able to absolutely standardise on the minutest detail. Not satisfied with merely making a claim, tlio British representatives, the Anglo-Ame-rican Motor Car Company, Ltd., of Heddon Street, Regent Street, AV., are intending to substantiate it by one of the boldest ideas ever launched forth since the inception of tho motorcar industry. First and foremost, the test for standardisation of Cadillac cars will be under (the entire control of tho Teclinic ll Committee of the Royal Automobile Club. The committee will, at their own discretion, select from stock any three single-cylinder Cadillac cars that may be available at that time from the London depot, and these cars will then be driven under observation to the club garage. Then each car will be stripped into its component parts in sight of the committee, and the whole of the parts of the three vehicles will be mixed together so that it will be impossible to recognise from which car they have conic. The committee will themselves then apportion the parts sp that the (three cars can be re-built in the club garage. 'When the Cadillac mechanics Jure completed the re-assembling, without altering any part and without the use of any other tools than the necessary spanners and screwdrivers, tho cars will then be driven straight to the Brooklands track, where each car will run 500 miles. Further, whilst tho re-assembling is in progress the- club committee have power, in order to test the ability to supply a Cadillac part on demand, to send tlioir own messenger to the .showroom for such parts as (they decide shall bo used instead of the original part of the car. The test will tike place in February, and we shall look forward with considerable interest to the results, for whatever they may be, we can congratulate Air F. S, Bennett on hi-? enterprise.