THE PERFECT AUTOMOBILE.

Manawatu Times, Volume 62, Issue 37, 13 February 1937, Page 15 (Supplement)

THE PERFECT AUTOMOBILE.

As perfection 5s impossible 5n all things built by man, inevitably the perfect automobile will never be constructed. But iu the tw ; o score years since the first automobilo was crudeiv put together, ushering in a new era of transport progress, some 75 million automobiles have gone into service on the highways of the world, about half of which are still in use. From the experience with these vehicles and their billions of miles of travel, the motoi tiade has attained a knowledge of the qualities essential to a satisfactory motor vehicle. As the automotive industry approaches tho achievement of these characteristics in the product it provided for world use, to that degree

it is producing the ‘‘perfect" automo bile. This machine of economical transpor in the most complicated of all machine: in general public use to-day. The auto mobile is a complex structure, em bracing many thousands of separate I parts—one medium-priced car, for ex ample, requiring nearly 10,000 separati pieces in its various manufacture, somi ' of them machined within limits of ac curacy not surpassed in the finest o watches, subject to tremendous strain: and stresses. But the completed ina chine must be so simple of operatioi l and easy to drive that it may be used ’ constantly, without strain and wit! , minimum of fatigue, by any driver man or woman, in any part of thi j world. All other complicated machine : —such as locomotives, electric genera * tors, airplanes, pumping plants, etc.,— are operated only by experts, Ion: trained:in their care and use. Yet th automobile embraces all the complex ities of each of these machines .iDi others as w : ell and must be so easy o operation that Ihe general public ma; drive it at will, under any sort o climatic condition, of heat, cold, rail and sun, rugged and as i.early “fool proof" is possible. The satisfactory automobile b< a transport machine capable of runnin; day after day, month after month an< for years with a minimum of cost (in eluding first cost, operating cost, ser vice cost, work performed and amorti sation) and service troubles, yet wit! tho maximum of safety, comfort, am • freedom from maintenance delay.