Chryslers Have New Features

Sun (Auckland), Volume III, Issue 830, 26 November 1929, Page 6

Chryslers Have New Features

MECHANICAL DETAILS “ARCHITONIC” BODYWORK The dashing low-swung lines and speedy engines of the three new Chrysler models have fascinated all motorists, who should he interested in this description of the new engineering features. NEW FEATURES Among the wholly original features introduced by the Chrysler “77” and the Chrysler “70” are: The four-speed multi-range gearshift, an entirely new principle in power control: the synchronised power system, engineered as a unit from radiator to rear axle; down-draft fuelisation, a scientific advancement in carburetion; larger and more powerful engines, for increased speed and wider performance possibilities; paraflex spring suspension and chimneytype rubber shock insulators, affording the last word in comfort. The cars also have architonic bodies, new in the science of their design and construction. The “Architonic” principle of body construction is an exclusive Chrysler

development. This structure is braced and rebraced with pillars and joints of welded steel, possessing increased safety.

The new synchronised power system, balanced and engineered as a unit from the radiator to the rear axle, attains the effect of one scientifically unified mechanism. All models are powered with engines of the Chrysler silver dome principle, which gives high compression power with ordinary fuel. HYDRAULIC BRAKES

All of the Chrysler models have enlarged, weatherproof, self-energising internal expanding, four-wheel hydraulic brakes. This type of brake has been used by Chrysler since the car’s introduction.

An important element of the synchronised power system, the Chrysler built multi-range gear-shift, unlike any other gear-shift in use today, Chrysler engineers say, renders the control of a car simple, effective and safe. It has four forward speed ranges; heavy duty starting, accelerating and driving range.

The accelerating range permits unusual pickup and hill-climbing, while the driving range is a direct drive and allows high car speed with comparatively slow engine speed. Chrysler presents for the first (,ime the revolutionary downdraft carburetion, a principle of fuelisation new in automobile engineering. Airplanes have had a somewhat similar system, but it has not been used heretofore on passenger cars. Cartier et Cie, famous Paris and New York jewellers, designed the fittings.

QUICK TRAVELLING

! SYDNEY OIL MEN’S TOUR \ Mr. C. L. Westcott, general man--1 ager in Australasia for the firm of ' C. C. Wakefield and Co., Ltd., and Mr. | w. L. Clarke, publicity manager, re- | turned to Sydney recently on the I Aorangi. | These two executives have created ! somewhat of a record for an around--1 the-world business trip, i Mr. Westcott and Mr. Clarke left i Sydney on May 5 for Adelaide, where ! they boarded .the Narkunda, en route 1 for England. At Marseilles they flew i by plane to Paris, and again flew from | Paris to London. 1 From London they journeyed across i to New York by the Aquitania, and i by utilising the various railroads | reached Toronto. From Toronto they i flew to San Francisco, and also jour- [ neyed by air from that port to Vant couver, whence they boarded the I Aorangi for home, thus completing \ their trip in a little over four months, i It will be remembered that at Vani couver Mr. Westcott created a large ! . amount of interest among the Canadi ians by airing his views on inter- * Dominion trade, which interview ap- | peared in a Vancouver newspaper in i an article headed, "Wake Up, Can-