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Show Terraplane Sedan the roomiest car in the lowest price field. This car haa full three-passenger width in both the front and rear seats. Completely new and more modern than tver in appearance, more luxurious in style, and with a wealth of engineering development, develop-ment, the new Terraplanes for 1936 are ready and soon will be on display at the W. R. Martin garage. gar-age. Xot only do the new cars attain- entirely new standards of beauty, but they incorporate safety engineering features to a degree never before found in automobile auto-mobile chassis and bodies. In addition, ad-dition, there are a number of in-: j novations of a fundamental nature I which no cars have ever had before. be-fore. j Although these cars are still in 1 the lowest price fiehi, they are .much bigger and finer than their predeces-ors of the same make. , Of interest from a safety, as well as coir.fort standixjint. is the ! wholly new principle, raJical safety control, which makes possible greater safety m riding, steering. and stopping. So marked a d;f-' d;f-' ferer.ee does this new front end j system incorpot ate in the riding qualities of the car that the manufacturers of the Terraplane j have given the name, Rhythmic ; Ride, to the result of the synchronized syn-chronized and unified suspension system. This new front end system also introduces tru-line stg.-i ing, bringing bring-ing a new road sense to the steering steer-ing wheel h'-raii e of the accurate control of the steering sy-tem, regardless re-gardless of road ron1ition. Another An-other new feature is the duo-auto-lvalie hydraolir brakes which incorporate in-corporate a lie- h:i-hy ti.'.iiaulic s tem with the double safety factor fac-tor of an autoihat c ie-erve brake af the rc tar -e-p.iaiiy i mechanical mechani-cal type. On the bo':'.-., v. h::i haw one-fifth one-fifth more room in-Me than many car. -!hv:g at '!' '.;:'' the price, i-the i-the automatic (!?aft eliminator a feature al'hj to Terrapiane's a!l-car von: ih:t .on s;..-tem which a'jtoniaMcru'y cr.-jaiie- air pressure pres-sure in.-'.de. ur.-i ocW.ie the car and screens the air entering the body in connection with the ventilating venti-lating system. Mounted on a full 115 inch wheelbase and equipped with an 88 horsepower engine, and a 100 horsepower available optionally, the car is not only roomier, but i-capable i-capable of maintaining the reputation repu-tation that Terraplane has established es-tablished for performai e. This car carries on the tradition of the models which have broken AAA records for speed, economy and hill climbing, all over the country. The bodies are all of steel, having a steel floor, steel roof and a complete com-plete stee) structure throughout. The electric hand which was introduced intro-duced on the Terraplane last year for smoother, -afer, fa.-ter, gear-shifting, gear-shifting, is optional on all models. The Terraplane is made in two series delux and custom ft full line of bodies being available in either series. In the bodies extra leg room, elbow room and shoulder room, have been provided. The Hedans are ; full six-passenger capacity with seats three inches wider front and rear than those .normally considered consid-ered standard. The seats are 00 inches wide in front and 46 inches in the rear. At shoulder and elbow el-bow height, fj6 inches of width is provided above the arm rest, and because of the three incli longer wheelbase more leg room is pro-j pro-j vided lengthwise. The body is more completely insulated in-sulated than any bodies previously previous-ly made. The sound insulation of the Terraplane bodies for I'.I'.'C, has been can led to an extremely high standard. Various insulating insulat-ing materials are employed to damp out any possible vibration. The introduction of automutic draft elimination in the Terra-planes Terra-planes for Iti-'il'i brings a feature to this low price car which will be louml for the fir-1 time in cars at any price. The system insures a 'supply of clean, fresh air to the occupants of the cars. It completes com-pletes the all-year ventilating sys- tern in that it filters the incoming I air supply, permitting air to enter the car only at a definite point ' when the ventilating system is in use. In cold weather driving, the automatic draft eliminator pre-I pre-I (Continued on last page) New Terraplane (Continued from first page) vents chill draft around the floor of the car because the bottoms bot-toms and sides of the doors and in fact all other possible sources of air leakage on the car are sealed. Air is only permitted to enter at one point with the windows win-dows closed and the ventilating system in action. The interior of the body has been beautified in many respects. Because of the V-form of the windshield, it is possible to tilt and curve the instrument panel to make it more legible from the driver's seat. The instruments themselves have been rearranged. In place of the water level gauge a water temperature indicator is now supplied. The ruby tell-tale lights for oil pressure and Ibat-tery Ibat-tery charging are continued. These lamps flash red on the instrument dial if the generator is not charging charg-ing or if the oil pressure is below normal. The interior upholstery and trim of the Terraplanes for 1936 is of a quality unsually found in cars of a much higher price. An option is provided in that the seat cloth may be either an TJx-bridge TJx-bridge worsted (wijth a two-tone tree bark pattern or a 100 per cent two-tone red-brown Mohair. The sidewalls on the Terraplane are TJxbridge worsted or Mohair optional with headlining (colored to match. From an engineering standpoint, stand-point, one of the most important innovations in the Terraplane is the introduction of radial safety control. As its name indicates this system derives its outstanding outstand-ing advantages from the fact that the front axle in its oscillation, due to inequalities of the road, moves in a true vertical arc. It is held to this path by two drop-forged drop-forged torque rods, one on each side of the frame of the car, fitted to the side rail of the frame. The action of these torque rods permits the front axle to rise and fall freely without restrictions in the vertical plane, and to deviate to a sufficient degree from the horizontal position to accomodate the inequalities encountered on the road surface. Because of the use of these torque rods, the front springs have no duties to perform except those of absorbing road shock. They do not have to drive ! shock. They do not have to drive the front axle nor absorb brake torque. As a result, a softer, more flexible spring, can be employed em-ployed without in any way affecting affect-ing the control of the car, but ! providing infinitely better riding qualities. The front springs can thus be synchronized properly with the rear springs giving rise to what Terraplane engineers have called the "Rythmic Ride." Another feature called "Tru-Line "Tru-Line Steering" which will be featured fea-tured in connection with the Terraplane this year also results from this front emi construction.; It is achieved by the fact that it j is not necessary to compromise! tie steering layout in order to ap-J proximate correct steering under j all operating conditions. The; torque arm control makes it pos-j sihle nut only to design the steer-1 ing according to strict theoretical accuracies, but to actually main-1 tain this accuracy on the car in practice. This results in a much better driving feel or "road sense" of the car. Another important feature of the Terraplane for 193ti as outstanding out-standing from a safety point is the use of duo-automatic hydraulic hydrau-lic brakes. In this system all of the inherent advantages of the I hydraulic brakes, are provided plus the infallibility of the positive posi-tive rotary-equalized mechanical brake. With this system, every application of the hydraulic brake is backed up by a mechanical application ap-plication which follows closely behind be-hind it, but which is inoperative except under emergency application. applica-tion. This is the first time in any automobile that a dual application system has ever been provided. Terraplane chassis for 1936 are longer, wider and more rigid than in 1935, although the latter chassis chas-sis was outstanding in this respect. re-spect. The increased dimensions, however, are required for the bigger, big-ger, wider and longer body. With three inches added to the wheel-base wheel-base and with the tread at the rear increased from 56 to 57 inches, a broader and longer foundation for the body is provided. pro-vided. The distinctive Terraplane feature in which the bottom floor of the body provides a rigid plate cross-member for the fi-ame is continued. This gives a complete junction of body and chassis and provides a unified structure for the entire assembly eliminating any line of weakness or break in structural strength and at the same time removing useless dead weight. The big six cylinder Terraplane engine with its bore and stroke of 3x5 inches produces 88 horsepower horse-power at 3800 r.p.m. with its standard compression ratio of 6 to 1. If greater horsepower is desired there is a 100 horsepower engine optional which employs the super-power dome. The latter is a solid aluminum head giving a 7 to 1 compression ratio. There are a number of detailed improvements in the Terraplane engine for 1936, increasing its efficiency ef-ficiency and ruggedness. The waterpump, for example, is now the presure typ? instead of the suction type. This provides a very effective flow to the car heater when installed. The carburetor on the new Terraplane Ter-raplane has been improved and is now fitted with an anti-percolat-ing device designed to prevent vapor in the float bowl. There is a spring-loaded needle valve in the float bowl which opens when the throttle is closed penniUing vapor to escape. A further improvement im-provement in the gasoline supply system is in the use of a larger tank. The tank capacity is now 16M gallons instead of the 11 gallon gal-lon size previously used. The electric hand installation which proved to be such a great success in the 1935 Terraplano is continued with detailed improvement. improve-ment. The appearance of the electric hand bracket on the steering steer-ing column has been materially improved, having been given a streamline form to coincide with the interior trim of the car. A number of important changes have been made in the transmission, transmis-sion, making it a huskier, more rigid unit. There is a dual interlock inter-lock on the transmission by means of which the gears are locked in mesh. The clutch must be depressed de-pressed in order Uo 'release the lock, thus preventing any possibility possi-bility of gears slipping out of mesh. The transmission case is longer, and the gear faces are wider. The rear axle provides a standard ratio of 4-19 to 1 with an optional ratio of 3-89 to 1. The tire size on the Terraplane for 1936 is 6.00 x 16 inches. |
