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HOW NEW MODEL
OVERLAND 4,WAS
GIVEN REAL TEST
The testing of motor cars, like
the building of motor cars, has un
dergone marked advancement during
the past few years. New standards
have been created and new mechan
ical testing devices have been per
fected to keep pace with the de
velopments of the automobile itself.
It remained for the Willys-Over
land Company, however, to supply
the supreme test to its latest model,
Overland 4 which has just been an
nounced. This test, it is believed,
has established new standards of
testing and refinement of details to
make a car practically perfect me
chanically before it goes to an own
er.
The history of the development,
building and testing of Overland 4,
which introduces the new three point
spring suspension, covers a period of
years. The car is the product of a
decade of progressive engineering
achievement toward the ideal light
weight car: of a year's intensive en
gineering experiment and two year s
actual demonstration and test in all
kinds of weather and all sorts of
roads.
During the two years of test,
Overland 4 was given 250,000 miles
of actual road demonstration. That’s
ten times around the world before
a single car went on the market.
These tests were of great value
to the engineering and the produc
tion departments of the WiHys-Over
land Company and, finally, to the
man who buys the car. A staff of
engineers studied the car during'
tbeso 250,000 miles of test to de
termine every refinement and im
provement that might be necessary
to make the car when it went on
the market free from service trou
bles and of assured economy in op-
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eration and perfect ease of riding
because of the new three point
springs.
The value of 250,000 miles of ex
haustive testing may further be
judged from the comparison with the
usual custom of sending a new car
into the market after it has been
pounded on roads in some 25,000
to 75,000 miles of demonstration.
Overland 4, it is said is the first car
that has gone on the market with
a pedigree of perfect production af
ter two years of constant testing.
The section of the country pick
ed for these tests was in Nature s
laboratory of the Southwest-Colo
rado, New Mexico and Arizona.
There nature seems unfinished, a
rough, rock-strewn, tortured coun
try. It was there that the engineers
decided that the new three point sus
pension springs could be given a su
preme test of the unexcelled ease of
riding which they have now intro
,h'Accordingly a fleet of Overland
4s were sent into this section. A
staff of engineers accompanied the
cars to watch every hour of per
formance. In Colorado the cars
were set to work scaling mountain
sides, twisting and turning around
the hairpin turns of the percipitous
cliff and mountain sides and rolling
over the boulder-strewn roads. There
are plenty of mud-seas of it, thick
and sticky as glue, hub and running
board deep. In New Mexico, there
were great stretches of deep shift
ing sand, which threaten to rack and
twist the frames of ordinary motor
cars In Arizona, there great
stretches of plain, innumerable river
streams to ford, worse mud than
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ever before and stretches of road'
that were so rough and torturous
that they resembled saw-tooth blades
of scraggy, sharp rocks. No better
testing ground can be found than
in the Rocky Mountains.
Over these roads, Overland 4 was
pushed to the utmost. Days were
spent in mud, in streams, twisting
through rock defiles, scaling bould
er-sprinkled hill and mountain sides.
The drivers were amazed after night
with their freedom from fatigue be
cause of the easy riding of the cars
due to the wonderful three point
spring suspension. The cars were
found in perfect mechanical con
dition after each examination by the
engineers. The three point springs
had saved the cars, had given a new
ease and comfort to the drivers; the '
balanced light construction had con- j
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Three-Point Cantilever Springs ii
. Greatest Improvement Since
J Pneumatic Tires
/~\VF.RLAND 4 has been put through the greater comfort under all road conditions.
most thorough and severe test possible. They do away a l most entirely with side
250,000 miles of mountain trails, desert sway and rebound which twist and rack the
sand, heat, cold, mud and dust, demon- car.
gig: strated the quality of every part of the car Diagonal attachment of the Three- Point
long before we began manufacturing. Springs at both ends of a 130-inch Spring-
This remarkable test showed conclusively base gives the steadiness and smooth riding
that Three-Point Cantilever Springs, exclu- of the heavy car of long wheelbase. JWC
. . • sive with Overland, are the greatest improve- Equipment is complete from Auto-Lite
ment in riding comfort since the introduc- Starting and Lighting System to Marshall
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They protect the car from road shocks Come in and see this car. Ask sor 1
and prolong the life of every part. Booklet. Overland 4 Touring, $845; Road-
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power of the car itself had pulled
it out of road situations in which
horses were found hopelessly mired
and dozens of automobiles were I
passed, sunk deep and immovable,, j
While these tests were going on, i
other tests were being made in the I
country within a radius of 300 miles j
of the fatcory.
The new three point suspension
springs had done everything the en
gineers had hoped for in saving the
car and introducing an almost un
canny ease of driving; the all-steel i
construction of the car gave it a j
ruggednesh unusual in any light car. I
It was in these tests that Willys- '
Overland Company developed the
phrase which describes Overland 4,
because of its three point springs,'
as the most important improvement ,
in motor car construction since pneu- I
matic tires.
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