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Show Local Dealer Explains Ford Transverse Spring "Riding quality of any car," says Osmond Crowther, local Ford dealer, deal-er, "depends to a great extent upon the ratio of the sprung weight to the unsprung weight. "That sounds a little complicated. I know, but really it is very simple. It is something every motor car owner should understand. -The sprung weight is that which is carried above the springs: the unsprung weight, that which is uevried below" the springs. The le.vs the unsprung weight in ratio to the sprung weight, the easier riding rid-ing the car will be. If the weight below the spring is unusually heavy or out of proportion to that above, it imparts road shocks with greater force, thus lessening riding comfort. com-fort. "In the Ford the transverse spring is one of the chief factors in reducing re-ducing the unsprung weight of th" car. "The outstanding advantage of the Ford-designed transverse spring is that it rests n the flexible ends with the heavv center part uppermost. upper-most. Therefore all road shocks are imparted to the most sensitive part of the spring instead of the middle. Thus the very weight of t-he soring receives the benefit of nring action instead of hanging below as dead weight and increasing the hammer-like blows of road impacts. im-pacts. "Ford springs are built of the f-nest steel. Th" leaves are wide, Tid following the most modern nt-aMce. ae thin, giving the springs the flexibility essential to easy riding." |