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Show CHANDLER STABILITY REMEDIN CHASSIS Prominent Automobile Engineer En-gineer Comments on This Fine Feature. "Skillful tailoring cannot make an athlete, ath-lete, nor beautiful body design lend stamina to the motor car. It is In the chassis that we look for strength." This was the comment of a prominent automotive auto-motive engineer when shown the clean-cut clean-cut chassiB of the Chandler auto at the plant recently. This authority was particularly par-ticularly impressed by its simplicity, which he compared to the clean-limbed muscles of the trained wrestler. He referred re-ferred to the body design as important, but held that it should carry out the pleasing lines to give the final effect of perfection. But while the chassis Is covered up in the finished car, the foremost engineers realize how important it is to have it free from unnecessary attachments, brake rods, loose wiring and any other superfluous parts that could be simplified. "The chassis," he said, "represents the vitality and endurance, while the fittings fit-tings are but the clothes we dress it in." It was explained to him that the Chandler chassis was the result of careful care-ful planning for great strength with light weigtiL. kjiw ut ins iea,uurt;s is ute pet-feet pet-feet balance of materials, which distributes distrib-utes the weight almost equally among the four wheels. This, with the 56-inch semi-elliptic semi-elliptic rear springs, of advanced design, makes this car remarkably easy riding and gives it wonderful stability on the roughest roads. Sales Manager Frank Beattey of the C. A. Quigley company, local Chandler distributor, added the following: 'But what the company considers its greatest engineering achievement is the Chandler frame, which is altogether different dif-ferent in conception and design. In the Chandler frame, the side members have been curved outward and deepened to form the running board valance, with the body sills resting directly on them. The running boards, which are usually attached to the frame by step hangers, are not riveted direct to the frame in Lexington construction. "This construction gives additional bracing against side thrust. They are made of thin trussed steel designed for lightness and strength. "Ingenious planning has thus resulted in the elimination of over 100 parts which are found in the ordinary construction. construc-tion. Every part Is integral with the frame itself, making a sturdy unit, light in weight and nonrattling." |