Daily Kennebec journal., 1925-06-06

was powered by a 25 H. p. engine.
Prior to this time it had been Gus
tomary to quote a price on all motor
cars with windshield, top and other
accessories as optional equipment to
be purchased separately.
Just a few months later-in the
summer of the same year-still
another innovation was announced.
The Model A, with one of the earli-
est of the so-called torpedo type
bodies, was brought out and imagine
the amaZement of the motoring world
to find that the gear-shift and emer-
gency brake levers had been moved
from the right hand side of the car,
just below the right front seat, into
the center of the front compartment.
This step was but preliminary to the
announcement of the fore" doors,
which were included as optional
equipment on the Model As. which
followed not long after. In fact,
with the Model 81, in 1912, these
fore doors, making four complete
steel doors on the body, became
standard equipment on a motor car
for the first time.
The Model A is also noteworthy
included a spare tire carrier 8 regu-
lar equipment, instead of unsightly
straps which had been used hereto
fore to take care of extra tires.
The WHY'S Knight Motor
From 1912 until 1914 WHY'S Over
land indulged in an exhaustive re-
search that resulted In the announce
ha doI rxl,f foI, 1al
"a revolutionary effect on its own pro-
duction. After his personal expert
ence with Knight -motored cars in
Europe, Mr.. WHY'S recommended
that his engineers. develop the sleeve
valve type of engine for quantity
production in this country. Following
the construction of a limited guam
'tity of XIII and KID cars, WHY'S
Overland announced the Model "a in
1915, which developed such popu-
larity that in one year, more than
1900 of these cars were built and
sold, then an unheard- of number, of
Knight-motored automobiles.
AS the public gained confidence in
the sleeve-valve type of engine, pro-
ruction doomed. WHY'S Overland has
built nearly 175,000 WHY'S knight
motored cars in ten years, estimated
as being fully as great as the COM
bined output of all other factories in
the world producing cars powered
with the sleeve-valve engine. WHY'S
Overland easily ranks first in the au-
tomobile world in popularizing this
remarkable invention.
TripIex Springs Set New Riding
Standard
In November, 1919, were announced
the Triplex (patented) springs
which have been used on 400, 900 cars
produced since that date. The pecu-
liar construction of this spring sus-
pension gives car of only 100 inches
wheelbase a spring base of 130
inches, due to the fact that the body
is suspended on the springs at
point Is inches beyond each end of
the frame. Where other cars are
mounted on top of the springs, the
Overland is Graded between the
springs. Due to the angle at which
the springs are attached, the road
shocks merely strike glancing
blow, instead of a direct one, pre-
venting the transmission of road
shocks in full force to the body.
WHY'S Overlands latest innova-
vation in American motoring history
is the popularization of the Lanches-
ter balancer, now being used in all
Killys- Knight engines, and which
has absolutely eliminated all vibra-
ton by system of balance weights
which operate off the crankshaft al
ternately with and against each
other.