The Nevada County picayune., 1919-11-13


 years. sThe car is, the product of . de- cade of progressive engineering achiev- ment toward the iedal light weight car !; of years intensive engineering ex- pertinent and two years actual demon stration and tests in all kinds of weath- CT and all sorts of roads.
 | During the two years of test, Over | land f was given 250,000 miles of ac- tual road demonstration. That's ten times around the world before single car went on the market.
 These test were of great value to the ] engineering and the production depart ments fthe Willys Overland Compa ny and, finally, to the man who buys the car. A staff of engineers studied the car during these 250,000 miles of test to determine every refinement and improvement that might be necessary to maks the car when it went on the market free from service troubles and of assured economy in operation 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 judg ed from the comparison with the usual custom of sending q new car into the market after ii has been pounded on roads oin some 25.000 10 75,000 miles of demonstration. Overland 1, it is said is the first ear that has gone on the market with pedigree of perfect production after two years of constant testing.
 The section of the country picked for these tests was made in Natures laboratory of the Southwest Colorado, New Mexico and Arizona. There ma ture seems unfinished, a rough rock strewn, tortured country. II was there that the engineers decided that the new three point suspension springs could be given supreme test of the uneX- celled ease of riding which they have now introduced.
 Accordinly fleet of Overland Is were sent into this section. A staff of engineers accompanied the cars to watch every hour of performance. In Colorado the ears were set to work sealing mountain sides twisting and turning around the hairpin turns of the perceptions cliff and mountain sides and rolling over the boulder-strewn roads. There was plenty of mudseas of it, thick and sticky as glue, hub and running board deep. In New Mexico. shifting sand, which threaten to rack and twist the frames of ordinary mo- tor cars In Arizona. there were great stretches of plain. innumerable river streams 10 ford. worse mud tahn ever before and stretches of road that were so rough and tortuous that they resem- bled saw-tooth blades of Scraggy. sharp rocks. No better testing ground can he found than in the Rocky Noun tains
 Over these roads, Overland 1 was
 
 in mud, in streams. twisting through rocky detiles, sealing boulder-sprinkled hill and mountain sides. The drivers were amazed night after night with their freedom from fatigue because of the easy riding of the cars due to the wonderful three point spring. suspen- Sin ,.1I in a.t mechanical condition after each exam nation by the engineers. The three point springs had saved the cars. had given Il ne wease and camfOrt to the drivers: the balanced light construe- ton had conquered the worst of the roads the power of the car itself had pulled it out of road situations in which horses were found hopelessly mired and dozens of automobiles were passed. sunk deep and immoyabe.
 While these tests were going on. country within radius of 300 miles of the factory.
 The new three point suspension springs had done everything the en- gineerS had hoped for in saving the car and introducing an almost uncanny euSc of driving the all-steel construe ton of the car gave it ruggedneSS unusual in any light car. It was il these tests that the Willys Overland Company developed the phrase which describes Overland l. because of it's three point springs, as the most i'm portant improvement in motor car con struction since pneumatic tires.