Belington progressive. [volume] (Belington, W. Va.) 1912-1927, 1919-11-13

years. lie Gar ID Vic piouuCt VI a
decade of progressive engineering
achievement toward the ideal light
weight car; of years intensive en-
gineering experiment anil two years
actual demonstration and test in all
kinds of weather and all sorts Of
roads.
During the two years of test, Over
land A was given 100000 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 production de-
partmerits of the WHY'S Overland
Company and, finally, to the man who
buys the car. A staff of engineers
studied the car during these 100000
\ miles of test to determine every re-
fnement and improvement that might
lbe necessary to make the car when it
went on the market free from SER
Twice troubles and Of assured economy
in operation and perfect ease of rid
ling because Of the new three point
springs.
The value OF 100000 miles of ex-
haustive testing may further be judi
ged from the comparison with the
usual custom of sending new car
into the market after it has been
pounded on roads in some $4,000 to
75,000 miles of demonstration. Over
land d, it is said, is the first car that
has gone on the market with a ped
igree of perfect production after two
years Of constant testing.
The section of the country picked
Il for these tests was in Natures lab
oratory of the Southwest-C Colorado,
New Mexico, and Arizona. There
nature seems unfinished, rough, rock
strewn, tortured country. 1t was
there that the engineers decided that
the new three point suspension
springs could be given supreme test
of the unexcelled ease of riding which
they have now introduced.
Accordingly feet of Overland as
were sent into this section. A staff
of engineers accompanied the cars to
watch every hour of performance. In
Colorado the cars were set to work
scaling 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
mud seas of it, thick and sticky as
glue, hub and running board deep.
In New Mexico, there were great
stretches of deep shifting sand, which
threaten to rack and twist the frames
of ordinary motor cars. In Arizona,
there were great stretches of plain,
innumerable streams to ford, worse
mud than ever before and stretches
of road that were so rough and tor
tuous 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 rocky defiles, sealing boulder
sprinkled hills and mountain sides
The drivers were amazed night after
night with their freedom from ia
jtigue because of the easy riding of
ho ~ l.
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.
quered 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 doz-
ems Of automobiles were passed, sunk
deep and immovable.
While these tests were going on,
other tests were being made in the
country within a radius Of 800 miles
Of the factory.
The new three point suspension
springs had done everything the en-
4 gineers had hoped for inNSaving the
car and introducing an almost I'M
canny ease Of driving; the all-steel
construction of the car gave it a
ruggedness unusual in any light car.
1t was in these tests that the WHY'S
Overland company developed the
phrase which describes Overland a.,
because of its three point springs as
the most important improvement Yin
motor car construction since pneu-
matte tires.
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