Ellsworth American. [volume] (Ellsworth, Me.) 1855-current, 1923-08-01
BUICK 1924 MODELS
Startling Advances in Power, Control
and Economy,

and Economy.
Introduced to the public to-day, the
1924 Buick cars offer renewed proof of
the unreliability of rumor. For
n,4nths gossip of what Buick would
do on August l has been prevalent,
and often solemnly asserted by the
wseacres as ION good authority"
Yet so little of it proves true, and so
many complete surprises characterize
these cars, that Buick is to be con-
graduated on keeping it's secret so
we'll
These Buick cars will be hailed as
substantial advance in automotive
engineering. The new features are
developments rather than innovations,
evolutionary rather than revolution
ary and consistent throughout with
those Buick fundamental principles
that have endured through twenty
years of Buick manufacture.
With fifty per cent. more power
claimed for it's famous valve-in head
siX-cylinder engine it's successful ex-
ternal brakes extended to four wheels
in both Skies and Fours, a specially
designed carburetor that is heralded as
WOHutG, anu llltI any dcISHo Va
other developments, major and minor,
Buick proves that it's engineering
staff has been very much ION the job"
The thousands who will these
cars in the leading centers this week.
and very soon in the show rooms of all
Buick dealers, will first observe
change in body lines, undoubtedly in
fuenced to a degree by recent refine
ments in foreign design. Thus more
modish appearance, even than the
1928 Buick, has been.
two to four inch longer wheel
base on the six cylinder chassis has
created more room in both the front
and rear compartments, thus affording
greater comfort to both driver and
passenger and, coupled with an i'm
proved spring suspension, easier rid
ing qualities also.
But, despite the notable advances in
Buick appearance and roominess, it is
the chassis that reflects most the pror
tracted and intelligent effort that the
Buick organization has applied in de-
veloping it's car to this, the highest at
tainment of it's history.
The six cylinder valvein-head en-
CINE, which has probably brought
more enduring fame to Buick than any
other unit of it's construction, has
been so re-designed that it actually
yields so per cent. more power and
speed of sixty to seventy miles an
hour. 1t has forced feed fabrication,
removable heads, larger valves, heavi-
or crank and cam shafts, greater pis-
ton displacement and new Marvel
carburetor that includes a simple dash
adjustment for economy regardless of
weather or kind of gasoline employed.
The extension to all four wheels of
the highly successful Buick external
brakes is a feature that has been in
process of development for period OF
years. These brakes enable the car to
be brought to a standstill much more
quickly and smoothly, thus affording
an added factor of safety The brakes
are operated by light pressure on the
foot pedal and the mechanism is both
simple and ingenious.
Another outstanding factor is the
improved fabrication of the engine.
There are new cup-top push rods and
the rocker arms, valve stems and
springs, connecting rod bearings are
all automatically fabricated.
The foregoing are merely the high
spots in the 1924 Buick, the minor
improvements and refnements of the
line being, in the aggregate, scarcely
less interesting and epochal. And
through it all, basic Buick ideas of
construction have been rigidly adhered
to- amplified marVelously, but in no
instance discarded.
OF the fourteen body models of the
line ten are mounted on the six cyhn-
der chassis and four on the four cylin-
der chassis.-Advt.