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Show STANDARDIZATION DIFFICULT IN ENGLAND The conditions In British automobile automo-bile shops are very different from our own. There it is no unusual tiling for customers to buy the chassis and have their ow n coach builder, who has lon built carriages for them, suppl the body. It Is also a common thiug to build many models of chassis, although al-though a few firms are specializing on one standard this year One of the pioneer builders of automobiles auto-mobiles in Great Britain naturall adopted the first method, and. al though the percentage of complete cars is probably Increasing the number num-ber of bare chassis which are supplied sup-plied are still large. Furthermore, numerous small changes often go with this, making standardization of all things difficult Thl6 naturally preents undue expenditure ex-penditure in special machines, but it has brought out a number of iugen- lous adaptations of engine lathes ti special work, which are Interesting In many wavs Some of these should serve as suggestions to others In similar sim-ilar cases It must also he remembered that ihe question of quality is a live one. the car in question helng guaranteed in every way for three years, instead of one as is usual in this country. American Machinist fn |