THE MAXWELL CAR.
MANUFACTURE WITNESSED. The manufacture of a roomy fiveseator four-cylinder motor-car, electrically lighted and started, and of dependable quality, was portrayed in an exceedingly interesting iilm shown ax the Empire Theatre last, evening The <yir described was the Maxwell "iV" 1015 model, a machine manufactured by the Maxwell Motor Company, Detroit, U.S.A. Messrs. C. A. Wilkinson ami Co., Ltd., Eltham, district ngen.es, and Messrs. Bcllringcr Bros., New Plymouth agents, extended a free invitation to the public to witness the screening of the film, and there was a very large attendance. Through the medium of the screen the audience were conducted through the company's magniliecnt works at Detroit, Newcastle, and Dayton, and here tliey were privileged to witness the many processes incident to the manufacture of the machine, from "the raw material to the finished car." The chemical metallurgical laboratory was shown. In this department is determined just what kind of steel or other metal shall go into each part of the car, and to just what heat treatjme nt it shall he subjected to. Here analyses are made of all step's known to science, and here the steel is specified and ordered from the mill. The shipment is tested, and, if found satisfactory, is forged and tested again, and is subjected to different processes of heat treatment. In the foundry, cylinders and pistons and various other parts are cast. The drop-forging plant is impressive. White-hot steel, spitting sparks as it comes out of the oil furnaces, is shaped into an axle, a shaft, connecting rod, or lever. In the machine shop a bewildering maze of machine and belts is depicted, and here the delicate mechanism and skilled workmen are responsible in a great measure for the high standard of the Maxwell car. The parts arc then assembled, and the body is added to the chassis. When finished," the Maxwell car has a graceful, full, streamlike body of ample capacity tor five adult passengers. It is handsomely finished and and has an artistic On leaving the factory the Maxwell is subjected to severe tests before being passed to the dealers. These tests were of a very interesting nature, and demonstrated fully that the Maxwell is a car of outstanding durability and speed. In the "Astor Cup,'' one of the leading motor speed events oi the year in America, the winner of M, c £2OOO first prize (J. Aitken), on .Venaent, drove right through the contes vv it'"u;!- i stop, and covered the distance ''''
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