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Show HOLDS USE VITflLTEATURE T. W. Nay lor, Head of Local Lo-cal Studebaker Distribu-' Distribu-' tor, Gives Views. J. W. Naylor, president of tfie T. TT. t L. O. Nay lor company, distributor' for Studebaker automobiles in Utah and Idaho, Ida-ho, says: . "Light weight and perfect balance are synonymous with readability, riding comfort, com-fort, tre economy and low maintenance COEtS. "If you have ever ridden in a Studebaker Stude-baker 5'ou will recall that the first thin? that struck you was how easily it rode how the ruts and inequalities in the road seemed to flatten away before the car. And you will probably remember how easily it seemed to drive; how just two fingers on the wheel kept it running ' along straight and sure. Roadabillty has alwavs been an oustanding feature of Studebaker motor cars. It is even more pronounced in the new models. And this is due to -the balanced lightness of Studebaker cars. "When the motor car industry ae in its earlier stages of development very little lit-tle attention was given to ' the problem of good balance. There was often a difference dif-ference of many hundreds of pounds between be-tween the amount of weight thai was car ried by the rear and front wheels. Automobile Auto-mobile engineers generally were of the opinion that it was impossible to. get cars to the point where the front and rear construction con-struction would be practically evenly balanced. bal-anced. "By reason of long study, backed by a manufacturing experience which includes in-cludes the production of more than 300,-000 300,-000 motor cars, Studebaker engineers developed de-veloped their product to a point where the new Studebaker cars show almost perfect balance. A complete reorganization of the various units, with greaUy simplified construction throughout, has so evenly distributed the weight of each one of the new models and there is hardly fifty pounds difference in the weight that is carried by the front and rear -wheels when the tonneau is occupied. The elimU nation of many heretofore necessary parts has been made possible because of new and improved design. And with this light weight Studebaker engineers have gained greater strength and solidity of construction. construc-tion. Car Light for Size. . ' "fealanced lightness means much more than readability. By evenly distributing the weight of a car over the entire chassis it is possible to attain high eoeed o;i the open road with perfect safety and without with-out bouncing and swaying "about. But even balance and light weight are also essential to tire and gasoline economy, Take our new seven-passenger EJig- Six, for instance. It is a big. roomy', missive , appearing car, but it actually weighs but oli'5 pounds. In the earlier days only the heaviest, cars could be depended upon to hold the road at fast speeds, Weighing oOOO pounds or more, their mere bulk alone wa,s repsonsible for their steady riding and their owners paid high for this roadabiliry. By reason of good balance. bal-ance. Studebaker engineers ha ve adopted lighter, stronger and better steels and at the same time secured fur better readability' reada-bility' than the bulky machines of the past. Owners of Studebaker Bi Six cars are reporting from fourteen to sixteen miles of travel to the gallon of fuel and from 10,000 to 12.000 miles to the- set of tires. "The advantages of lighter weight ould be lost, of course, were it not for the factor of good balance that keeps Studebaker cars to the road, no matter how difficult and rough the going may be. An improperly balanced motor car iu 1 bound to be a constant source "of trouble, btcause of the uneven wear and excessive strain on all mo vine: party." |