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Taranaki Daily News, Volume LIV, Issue 197, 17 February 1912, Page 2 (Supplement)

According to the Melbourne Argus, a motor car chassis of an entirely new type will shortly be landed in Melbourne. It is the invention of a Victorian, Mr. J. J. Charley, and is a sweeping departure from the ordinary system of chassis suspension and springing. It is claimed that the new device will supersede pneumatic tyres. The chassis is suspended on the compound cantilevel principle, and differs entirely from any existing modes of springing. Road shocks, it is asserted, are absorbed by the frame, and diverted into the direction in which the car is travelling. Tested, in England over the roughest of roads on solid tyres, _ the experimental car behaved splendidly, and expert motor engineers, such as Messrs Napier, Remington, Maudsley and J. Lamplough, M.I.A.E.'s, speak enthusiastically of the new invention. The British rights of the patent have been bought for £200,000, while negotiations are in progress for the sale of the French and German rights. The car fitted by the new device will be subjected to the severe ordeal of a drive from Adelaide to Sydney as soon as it is landed.