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Show KN EE-ACTION HERE TO STAT SAY CHEVROLET OFFICIALS "Knee-action is here to stay we haven't considered for a moment mo-ment omitting it from Chevrolet Master deluxe models for 1936." Thus did W. E. Holler, vice-president vice-president and general sales manager man-ager of Chevrolet Motor company, emphatically state that the company's com-pany's new cars, to be introduced November 2, would offer individual indivi-dual front wheel suspension in the line. "Our 1936 models will offer the same option in springing as the 1935 models; that is, the Master deluxe cars will be available avail-able with either knee-action or conventional springs, and the Standard models with conventional convention-al springs only," Mr. Holler declared. de-clared. "Chevrolet has made great changes in its plant set-up for manufacturing leaf springs, and also has purchased much new machinery for the making of leaf springs. The reason is that we needed these facilities because we will introduce a greatly improved im-proved design of leaf-springs suspension sus-pension in the 193 6 Standard models. The effect is to improve im-prove the ride, by changing the layout and the design of the leaf springs so that they give more nearly equal front and Tear action. ac-tion. "On the 1936 Master deluxe, the Chevrolet type of all-enclosed knee-action units will be retained unaltered, except for minor changes in assembly methods. Even if we could obtain, with conventional leaf-spring suspension, suspen-sion, a ride as soft and as Bmooth as knee-action provides, we would not drop knee-action because of its many other advantages especially es-pecially shockless steering, which contributes so greatly to safety and to driving ease. |