Ladysmith news-budget. [volume] (Ladysmith, Rusk County, Wis.) 1907-1927, 1919-10-31
Unusual Public Interest
Has Been Conferred in
This Latest
Model
NEW TYPE OF SPRINGS
Three-pOint Suspension Design
is introduced For First
Time
Big Car Comfort is Claimed
WHY'S Overland Asserts Springs Are
Greatest Improvement in Motor
Cars Since Pneumatic
Tires

Overland 4, the new car of light
weight construction for which the
public has been waiting since its intro
ductiOn was first rumOred at the auto
mobile shows about two years ago,
was placed on exhibition today at the
Overland salesroOms of Mark r. Bell
at the Ryall garage.
The men and women who have in
spected the new Overland here
were representative of the visitors to
Overland salesrOOmS in a thousand
cities. towns, and hamlets of the
United States. The cOmpany's deal
ers, from Maine to California, and
from Washington to Florida, now have
on display one or more of the new
models described as embodying THE
greatest improvement in riding COM
fort since the introduction Of pneu-
matte tires"
New Type of Springs
This improvement is the use of three
point suspension springs. Unusually
graceful in body design, Overland 4
makes a splendid impression on the
visitor 1t was this new spring sus-
pension. however, which absorbed mo-
torist attention at the salesrOOmS. 1t
is a combination of two principles that
have been used to greatest advantage
in automobile construction First,
that of cantilever springs; second the
flexible three-point construction.
The luxurious riding comfort these
springs furnish the car was immedi-
ately understood and appreciated. 1t
is this feature which gives to the new
Overland car, designed for light
weight, that degree of riding comfort
and security hitherto possible only in
high-priced, heavier cars.
But this is only one of many fea-
lures in Overland which back the
Willys-Overland Companys claim to
success in giving the public "a new
standard of riding comfort"
The actual creation of Overland 4
began more than two years ago. The
last two years have been devoted to
testing and perfecting each part of the
car. Back of its development stand
ten years of successful manufacturing
and engineering experience in giving
the public good motor cars. For the
immediate development and produc-
ton of Overland 4. John n. WHY'S has
concentrated the vast resources OF the
Willys-Overland Company. Production
will be on scale which will assure
the greatest economies in manufactur-
ing.
Ideals Guide Design
Guiding the development of this re-
markable new car was Mr. WHY'S
ideal of a motor car which would com
bine with the economy of light weight
all the comfortable riding qualities
and the stamina of the heavy and eX-
pensiye automobiles. He proposed a
car of built-in quality which would
free the owner from all possible up
keep expenses. This was not possible,
the company claims, until the WHY'S
Overland Company devised this inter-
esting three-point spring suspension a
spring seating radically different from
the conventional design of four springs
paralleling the chassis frame. New as
this spring suspension is. it is interest
ing to note that the design has been
approved by the Society of Automotiye
Engineers.
Before the final adoption of the new
springs. special breaking and humping
machines were rugged up at the fac
tory. and the cars. after that sup
poSedly destructive test, were sent out
on trial trips which carried them into
every section of the country in all
sorts of weather conditions. The cars
were driver over the Rocky Noun
tains, through the desert roads and
boulder stretches of the southwest
over the Sagebrush and sand OF Texas
and through the mud and clay of the
Missouri Valley. A two years test
covering 100000 miles of travel! The
car satisfied the cOmpany's engineers
that it was right The war period
which held up production was devoted
to an exhaustive perfection of car de
tails. refining the quality and economy
features.
Without emphasizing such features
as an unusually attractive appearance
the all-steel body with an 0ven-baket
enamel finish and other interesting Gle
tails, it may be said that motoring in
terest centers in four new and distinc
tive features, each worth the motor
lists study, are:
Springbase, Not Wheelbase
First, of course. the three-poin
cantilever spring suspension. I III
springs on Overland 4 extend fifteel
inches from a point on the chassis be
yond the axles at front and rear, Civ