The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1923-09-15
CADILLAC HEAD
TELLS OF AUTO
Big Improvements in Car
Are Announced

Following the most successful year
IN It's history. coupled with the most
satisfactory car Il has yet produced,
tho Cadillac Motor Car company has
announced now type. the Yea. con-
unuing the Weight principle and cm-
hcdying more fundamental improve
men,s than any OF lis previous eight
SSlsndcr cars. according 20 Arthur r.
liter, vice president OF the sunset
~, or Co. local distributors
On substance. the announcement.
1@thorized by N. H. Rice. Cadillac
president and general manager Is as
follows;
As the elimination OF nine years
production OF cars equipped with So
degree. Weight engines. the Cadillac
Motor Car company announces new
type. the V-ea. emb0dyinE tho fun.
damenta perfection % the V.typc.
"a degree, eight-cylinder engine. In
herently balanced. and with major
parts Improved; system % four
wheel brakes developed and perfect
ed by Cadillac engineers: frame
made even more rigid; a completely
rcdesigned and improved front axle:
bodies further refined. more spacious
and unsurpassed for quality and ap-
pcarance even In the costlicst OF
custom coach work; and many other
improvements
The new engine marks the prac-
teal Accomplishment OF an engineer
tng feat long considered impossible
by automotive engineers-the inner
ent balancing Of the reciprocating
parts % the v-type. eight-cyhnder
engine. With this inherent balance.
the N-6S retains and combines all OF
the obvious and admitted advantages
Of the short. rigid crankShaft and
crankcase. giving maximum rigidity
In the engine structure and economy
81 chassis space. coupled with hlther-
TO unknown smoothness OF operation.
The inherent balance OF the rceip.
msating parts In the v.s5 engine IL
result OF n new Arrangement OF
throws OF the crankshaft. In
new er1nkshaft the four throws.
" cranks. are In two planes NJ
rtght angles to each other. instead
OF all in one plane, MS in the pre-.
vious Weight practice. That ~.
when viewed from tho end. II the
cpankpln at the forward end OF the
erankshaft be considered TO CORE
spond with the figure XII on the
dial OF n clock. the second. third
and fourth crankplns would fall al
J. , and 8 o'clock. respectively.
Compensators. or CONFERENCE.-The.
are used. and these. in combination
with the new arrangement OF crank.
shaft throwH. cause the whole as
sembly -crnnkShnfs connecting rods
snd pistons--to operate with the
smoothnsss Of a balanced ffywheel.
with this arrangement OF the
crankshaft throws. a new firing
order has been established. The
same firing interval IL maintained.
uniformly spaced, as on all cadiI.
lac eight-cylindsr engines.
The firing interval. II might be
said In passing. Is conditioned by
the angle between the cylinder
blocks. and the power impulses oc-
~ regularly every quarter revolu-
OF the crankshaft. With no
sssssrr angle than 30 degrees will an
eIght-cylinder. y-type engine have a
regular firing interval and uni.
form overlapping OF impulses.
Primarily for the purpose Of an
increased margin Of safety. and
after a most careful study Of the
situation both NJ home and abroad.
the engineers have developed a Cad
lilac system OF four.wheel brakes. In
Guiding many new features. In ad.
dftion TO Effectiveness under all con.