Salt Lake Tribune | 1914-02-22 | Page 22 | Late Improvements Feature Car Detail

W. S. Ohocsmaji, Chccsraan. Automo-fcilo Automo-fcilo company. LATE IMPRINTS FHIM DETAIL That nutomobilo progress has been, during tlie last two years, along tbo line of detailed refinement, rather than in any sweeping revolution of design, is a laet which hag been commented upon by ovory thoughtful obsorvor. Manufacturers have, in gonoral, been giving more for the money better up-holstcry, up-holstcry, more complete equipment, better bet-ter finish, more convenient control, moro harmonious lines. The addition of reliable, built-in electrical starting and lighting systems is another aetail which has beon a recent development in the quality field. That tho cars havo been steadily improving in mechanical detail is similarly sim-ilarly true, though this fact is naturally appreciated moro by active motorists than by tho person whose interest is of the prospectivo sort. Greater attention is being given to tho incorporation of adjustable roller bearings in hubs and transmission; tho long-strolco. small-boro motors like those of the Studebaker "four and "six" models havo boon a long stop toward fuel economy and increased power; cooling problems havo been so successfully attacked that no correctly adjusted motor should ever bocomo unduly un-duly hot. Many of tho lato improvements have been mado as tho result of investigations investiga-tions by skilled metallurgists vvno have, by long scries of experiments, improved the strength of materials. Spring troubles, for instance, should be virtually unknown in any current or recent models, yet tho veteran motorist motor-ist found them often present and took them as a mattor of course. In the Studebaker service departmont it is a fact of general comment that demand for spring replacements is virtually vir-tually negligible. Credit is, of course, duo the spring plant, which is a part of the Studebaker manufacturing system. sys-tem. Keeping step with the inarch of progress in the standard processes of manufacture, this plant i'oaturcs ii scries sc-ries of tanks, filled with secret-formula brino into which each spring is automatically auto-matically dipped while still hot. This brino has virtually doubled the strongth Hiid endurance of tho automobile spring manufactured along conventional liuosT. The ingredients of tho bath were determined de-termined after long and laborious experiment ex-periment by consulting engiueora and oht'inists, who. by its moans, have added ono more detail to tho improvement which each Studebalcor car places at the disposal of its owner. Martin L. Torbush, mauagcr Firestone Fire-stone Tiro & Bubber company.