MORE IMPROVEMENTS.

Putaruru Press, Volume VII, Issue 320, 24 December 1929, Page 7

MORE IMPROVEMENTS.

THE TREND OF CAR DESIGN. In noting the design and specifications of some of the new cars exhibited at the Olympia Show held in October in London, one realises that another step has been made towards the liberation of the owner-driver. Car maintenance has been cut down to the minimum, and safety has been particularly studied. The "two most troublesome things in the maintenance of a car have been the cleaning and lubrication. For some years past, designers have been tackling both these problems, and now we are already reaping the fruits of their efforts. Body finishes

ail'd simplicity of line make for ease o| while shromium plating his cqme. into its own. When this ni*w plating first came into existenceXit was met with a good deal of : opposition, and its critics derived a ' gwd dhal of support from the fact HiaipJt-was little understood, and badly icftrrfwd out at first. Now, however, ill these -difficulties have been surmounted}, and it represents a tremendous boonfcW the Owner-driver as it supplies him uvsmart looking car which is < atXlhe same time very easily kept smartk. - ■ Lubrication problems wfere -chiefly concerned with the c basis. litxthe old days, the motoring ehtihvwiasfc >was quite happy when he was cohered with grease and oil after he hadjfcerformed the arduous task of lubjdcwtr ing every part of his car. In of the 1930 models, the whole thing' is either done in a second, but preying the foot on a plunger or else, by suitably grouped nipples at a central point. In addition, an increasing number of chasis have adopted rubber spring-shackles, which require no lubrication and are practically everlasting. There is no doubt that the modern car represents far less work for the owner-driver and very much greater value for money than ever before.