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Show Fords For 1941 Are Larger And More Beautiful DEARBORN, MICH., Sept. 26. The new Ford line is released for public inspection today. There has been a lot of advance discussion of changes. And changes there are, starting off with a considerable con-siderable increase in size for the Ford V-8's, DeLuxe and Super De-Luxe. De-Luxe. Designers have taken full advantage ad-vantage of increased wheelbase and overall lengths to give added spaciousness, spac-iousness, and Ford engineers have worked right up from bigger tires through to luxury seat cushions and new softer springs for the solid enhancement en-hancement of riding comfort. A new four-cylinder truck and commercial car, engine is part of the economy .features included in the Ford working line. The wheelbase of these big new DeLuxe and Super DeLuxe Ford V-8's is longer and the overall length greater. The designers have taken advantage of this extra overall to increase the inside body length both in foot room and seating width. In fact, the front seat of the sedan is seven inches wider than last year. The head room is greater and the window area, already large in previous pre-vious Ford cars, is even larger this year. Running boards have practically disappeared from sight, due to the width of the new bodies. But they are there to step off when the doors are opened. The 85 horsepower V-8 engine is still unique as it is in the only eight cylinder car in the low price field. These new Fords have lower transmission trans-mission gear ratios thus hiking up the "get-away". In addition to beauty both inside and outside the Ford engineers emphasize em-phasize the greatly improved ride in all 1941 models. This extra riding comfort starts with two inches longer long-er wheelbase and a new electrically welded "X" type frame. This new frame structure is 100 per cent more rigid, making the body now mounted mount-ed on big rubber cushions still quiet-, er in service. The springs, front and rear, with their increased effective length, have a balanced action eliminating eli-minating any "pitching" and give the easiest kind of ride. The rear seat cushions are two inches farther ahead of the rear spring -and axle, which further improves the riding qualities. The four- lever-type hydraulic shock absorbers now have a more sensitive adjustment to match the new softer acting springs. The new improved ride stabilizer, connected by swinging shackles to the front axle, minimizes side sway and improves im-proves steering. Super DeLuxe cushions are unusually un-usually comfortable since luxury type individual coil springs are used. Over these is a thick pad of latex treated curled hair which gives a softness only associated with expensive ex-pensive cars in the past. The new Fords big 12-inch hydraulic hy-draulic brakes, for quick, smooth action ac-tion and long service. An entirely new body design is included in-cluded in the 1941 Super DeLuxe line a sedan coupe. This coupe combines a close coupled body design de-sign with comfortable seating for six. Among the refinements which are new this year on all models are the speed lines on the side of both front and rear fenders, the new hidden gasoline filler cap, electric light on the luggage compartment lid which automatically lights whenever the lid is raised if the car lights are burning, ventilating front windows, a new wide tempered glass one-piece one-piece rear window, radio grilles in all cars, twin windshield wipers with speed control, twin sun visors, fender fen-der top parking lamps, and two-spoke, two-spoke, clear-vision comfort-type steering wheels. There is a center front license plate on the Super DeLuxe. |