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Show ? HOW THE CHANDLER i AUTD IS BUILT A ic 1 C A. Quigley Gives an Insight In-sight Into the Factory Production Methods. 7 3! r The astonishing: thing" about a good 'C modflrn automobile Is the way It stands up and glveti service under every possibio j rood condition, In every part of tho world. Uj Hough roads, hills, mud and sand only It Heem to bring1 out the car's Inbuilt Btamina. But, to tho owner who sits complacently behind the wheel, free from 3'1 the worry of frequent mechanical diffl- x cultleu. there 1ft seldom a thought as to ! what is really back of the car's eood-j eood-j netin, ' Yet this o;uaMty doen not Just happen ,j there ts a reason for it." says C. A. Quigley, local Chapdler distributor. "Automobile manufanturera take nothing noth-ing for granted. That Is, those recog-" recog-" nfzed leaderu who have created and con- " etantly maintained a reputation for qual- B tly, accept no oiio'h say so when it comes M to the materials that enter Into the -on- Btruotlon of their cars. They build longevity and service Into their cars by making sure in advance. "Some sage has i"ild that the training of a child should begin with its grand - e; parents. Automobile engineers believe that the Inspection of a car should begin with the raw material. "The Chandlor company, one of the world's largeHt and best-known manufac- turere of automobiles, obtains surety of manufacture partly from ef act engineering engineer-ing calculations, partly by scientific testa ? In wonderful chemical and physical laboratories, and partly by exhaustive road tests. "Chandler has invested a large fortune ( in Its laboratories and equipment. The l research and chemical laboratories, for I instnnce, occupy nenrly 15.000 square feet I of floor space and employ a large force i of skilled men, each man holding his col lege or university degree. And here it Is interesting to note that these Chandler laboratories arts larger and more com-I com-I pletely equipped than many of the unl- t versfties from which tho men employed 1 graduated. i "In the chemical laboratory, materials, I such us steul bar stock, brass, bronze, babbitt and cast Iron, are carefully j analyzed and checked with specifications from the engineering department. Any deviation from original specifications means immediate rejection. Steering knuckles, transmission and rear axle Rears, uteerlng arms and other vital parts aro regularly sampled and checked in the l mechanical laboratory, to see that pro duction is always P to standard. The metallurgical laboratory tests the heat treating of steel under microscopic en- j largements from samples which are taken i after each heat treatment. Specialized i experts In the physical laboratory test finished parts for strength by special machines ma-chines which exert crushing, twisting and pulling or bending strength sufficient to break any finished part. ! "The work done In the experimental i department covers the necessary work on all new rnooVls and spociaj apparatus, the inspection of a sample of all purchased parts, such as dies, castings, motor parts, gau ares. etc. These outside parts, of course, have been rigidly inspected and checked up hy their makers before delivery. de-livery. But the engineers take nothins for granted they Insist upon a thorough thor-ough inspection under their own eyes to ascertain whether the work hns been accurate ac-curate and up to Chandler standards. This department is also used for the purpose pur-pose of conducting road tests to evaluate and check up laboratory results under actual ac-tual road conditions. Tests on the road cover the question of engine performance, economy, endurance, acceleration, spring performance, road resistance, tire tests, brake tests, night driving lighting ef-focts ef-focts and many other minor tests covering cover-ing the effects on some one part of the car. Tests made on the road are often duplicated in the mechanical laboratory for the purpose of special observation or for obtaining engineering data for analyzing analyz-ing purposes." |