Evening bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1895-1912, 1911-01-07

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the tonneau at one operation, and
cave it smooth and exact. The alum
mum factory saves $500 per day on
the lowest cost of aluminium parts
elsewhere. But the automatic ma
chimes do more than cut cost
The great steam-forging hammers
that beat and beat two tons to each
square inch. on the white-hot glowing
steel ingots till they are shaped to be
part of an Overland, form the steel
as no human arms could, The ma
chimes which finish the parts after
ward give a smoothnoss, an eXactness,
that no wOrkman's eye and hand
could approximate. Under the same
system as is now used in the manu-
facture of the best watches the auto
matte machines give eXactness to the
thousandth part of an inch; and they
make every similar part precisely
alike. This gives, CT course, an in
terchangeabiity to an Overland
which no handmade car can have. If
IN Overland part ever breaks or
wears out, any similar part which
ever comes from the factory must fit
And then the easements and store
| rooms,
| 1t must surprise most motorists to
have the easements and storcroom5
of a motor-car factory pointed out as
a department which could save an au
tomobile buyer money. But they can
| do this at the Overland plant, where
| they have on hand, at this writing,
more than million dollars worth of
| tires, bought under contract made
before the late advances, and alone
saving $40 to $50 per car. and where
they keep the rest of their storeroom
filled with wealth Of other material
bought below today's market price.
For though the head of The Over
land Company buys on the cheapest
market, every important material
which enters into one of his cars is
the best anyone knows for the pur-
| pose Many a part could be made of
cheaper material, and engineers say
time times out of ten it would serve
equally we'll; but the head of The
Overland Company takes the best OBJ
tainabe at any price and calls it an
extra margin of safety.
He has every crank shaft before
| being attached to the engine, revolv-
ed six thousand times in its bearings
till they are fitted in the only way
which gives them absolute smooth
ness.
He has each engine run, under its
own rover, for forty-eight hours be-
fore it goes into the car. That is why
an Overland never needs breaking in,
but is able to run smoothly and qui-
city from the start.
He requires the direct drive and the
unit transmission-all in a dust-prooi
case-and the five-bearing crank
shaft used in all the costliest cars, re-
fusing the ordinary economy of using
the two bearings only, as is common
on the loWer-priced cars.
He has the four cylinders cast sep
arately. even on the cheapest car re-
fusing the saving of casting them to-
gether.
Each completed car, in the hands Of
an expert, watching, hearing, feelinl
for the slightest scratch or catch is
e taken out for at least two road test!
| over rough roads and hills. Every
a one tells the head of The Overland
Company that he demands more in
\ spections and tests upon the Overland
than is given any other car in thu
] world; he is told that he wastes quite
! a neat sum, per car, for his eXactness
but he says he avoids mistakes. |
4 an error occurs. it can not fail to b
corrected before the car goes to it
4 owner. He believes in no other spe
cial providence to look after peopl
\ driving cars than that put in befor
the car is shipped; so he has mad
the Overland's reputation, wide a
America, as a trouble-proof car
He has built the car which recent
& ran SIT miles from Toledo to NeN
4 York. through a binding rainstorr
1 and sea of mud in just thirty-fiV
hours making several new road rec
q ords on the way without the slightcs
4 mechanical trouble developing durin
Il the entire journey in spite Of cond
y tons so bad that the roads were sal
n to be impassable-a car that was cal
4 able of finishing when a good stri
q of road was found, and entering tn
"A suburbs of New York at speed
= ffty-two miles an hour-timed by tn
y motorcycle policeman who arrcste
7 the party.
y Another of his cars made a ne
record to Dayton.
Another successfully completed
1000 mile test over the worst roat