Show I t KNEE K NEE ACTION A CT ION BY J M CRAWFORD Chief Engineer Chevrolet olet I CoI Motor CoA Co CoA A survey among thousands of motorists throughout the United States has revealed that today only a few months after American cars first offered independent dent front wheel suspenSion of the drivers drivels interrogated accept knee action with with- without without without out question most of the remaining motorists interviewed say lay they are quite open minded as to It its it- it advantages a comparative few doubt the value of the new springing Interest in knee action is kneen and the a aera average era e American who wants wanta to know the whys of any anT marked departure from the th conventional is eagerly seeking information about It it it uIt It It an experiment IS the qu question asked most frequent nt- nt IT lv When American manufacturers decided on independent front wheel el suspension as the best means of obtaining further im- im improvement im improvement provement pro in riding qualities the th system was wu already long Jong past the experimental stage Independent suspension was developed years vears ago in m Europe and is now irk If in use in some of the foremost British and Continental Automobiles s among amon them being LancIa Mathis M Merced Merceds s Dt art n nl Brenn r D h lan M MR R At is and sley Crossley No European car ear that has bag adopted frost front wheel suspension has ever reverted to the old system Is it as stron strong as the conventIonal conventional construction In In In the conventional construction the wheel is mounted on a spindle attached to the front alv by the km king pin We attach the knee action unit itself to the chassis chassis frame from by the same came type of oC kin king pin and the wheel is ig mounted on the same type of spindle attached to a tremendously strong drop forged forced support arm and is further braced by a forced drop-forced radius rod Every link in the knee action assembly is as stron strong ns M or even stronger strone-er than the strongest link link in the conventional design n C Why are arc o tv different types used in A American nc n cars cus- cusIt cars It is 13 an advantage anta ad e of the h lighter car ar that it may use that type 5 i In which the spring entirely enclosed in m a protective metal hou housing m operates in oil on This type tt pc of knee action unit turns with the tho wheel in steering If a large larg-c and heavy car were to ln install simil ir sr units of the reQuired size and strength th the tho total weight of the units wheels brakes and drums to be swung about the km king pins pms in steering would be so great that steer steer- steerIng steering steering ing would be heavy or logy To turn the steering wheel would reqUire too much energy or would require a steering gear gem ratio so low as to be RAMPTON AUTO COMPANY BOUNTIFUL UTAH PHONE 80 tO r f f i r I |