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Show MAKE CHASSIS DESIGN CHANGE I Other Alterations In Cars, To Be Shown at Auto Show Important developments in chassis design will be disclosed at the eighteenth eight-eenth annual automobile salon, opening open-ing at the Hotel Commodore in Now York on December 3. Four-wheel j brakes, special spring suspensions and even straight eight motors will be. found to b almost the rule rather than the exception. Sleeve valve motors mo-tors also will ficure among the major developments, while minor chonsres and refinements arc said to be numerous nu-merous In tho now models of high-grade high-grade cars to bo on exhibition. Those developments aro not confine. con-fine. to the cars for seven European nations which are represented this year, as at least two of the fourteen makes of high prtcod American cars to be shown embody marked changes in accepted chassis design. Also tho foreign group includes several of the post-war types of 9mall and medium sized cars as well as tho large, high powered machines for which the European makes have long been famous. As in previous years, the automobile automo-bile salon will serve to introduce the new 6tylea and fashions In custom coachwork. According to precedent, the car-rossoricrs are keeping secret thi Ir now body designs until the exhibition ex-hibition opens, but the twelve prominent promi-nent firms having special coachwo1-!; exhibits are certain to show interesting interest-ing developments in their latest body creations. |