The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1925-10-28
AMERICAN CARS
To DOMINATE
WORLD
Europe Unable to Keep Up
With U. S. Products, De-
cIares Walter P. ChrysIer

NEW YORK, Oct. 2S.-The cal
Of the future, which will be Of 100
horsepower and capable of making
speeds of ninety miles per hour
will be an American product.
European engineering and manu-
featuring facilities are not yet in a
position to provide the product
which the motoring public, particu
larly in America, is beginning to re
quire, because of the Kaleidoscope
traffic conditions.
This is the opinion of Walter p.
Chrysler, head of the Chrysler Cor
poration, who has just returned to
this country from a months visit
to England and the Continent.
Mr.. Chrysler, together with j. E.
Fields, vice president in charge of
sales, and Fred NJ. Zeder, vice
president in charge of engineering,
attended the Nineteenth Interna-
tional Motor Exhibition held at the
Olympia in London. They also
visited a number of European motor
car plants. 1t is on his investiga-
lions at these factories that Mr..
Chrysler bases his prediction that
the new car will be an American
development
For years we have been ac-
customed to going to Europe Tor
the finest in motor cars. European
engineering and craftsmanship as
expressed in their hand /built cars
were considered the very essence OF
style and quality" said Mr.. Chrysler
ON landing New faces in
engineering design and coach work
invariably came from across the
water. But this has all been
changed.
Detroit, Motor Style Center
american ingenuity has proved
beyond doubt that its development
of the marvellous precision ma
chinery not only enables US to build
greater quantities. but to build
these quantities with even greater
accuracy than is possible by the
laborious handicraft OF European
workmen.
LAS our Paris distributor recent
~ expressed it You come to Paris
for style in your clothes, but we
repay the compliment now by going
to Detroit for our style in motor
cars
old traditions of motor car build
ing are fast being discarded. We
have been passing through
transitional phase in our industry
Tor the last two years which has
caused us to cast aside many
antiquated ideas and methods in
automobile designing and building.
I'm the popular-priced field the
car to ride comfortably should be
springs and their suspension. lower
body lines and. more scientific dis
tribution of weight today make it
possible for cars of shorter wheel
base to ride with greater ease and
smoothness than cars of much
longer wheelbase and more weight
mot to mention the advantage of
greater facility in handling and
parking.
IAN engine no longer need be
ponderous and clumsy power plant
to develop speeds of 20 and IS miles
per hour. New ideas in carbure-
tion and manifolding, new dis
coveries in alloys and other
enable us now to build
motors small in size, but capable of
developing tremendous energy.
1.-The builders of our better cars
have begun to see the trend and
are commencing to apply engineer
ing economics which up to now
have been. considered only for the
popular-priced field.
Meet New Traffic Demands
THE result is that we can look
forward to cars of the highest
standards being of much shorter
wheelbase, but giving greater COM
fort. greater sustained speeds and
pickup to cope with the changing
highway and traffic conditions. and
produced at 25 per cent less cost
than existing types of the greatest
efficiency.
1T has been the astounding
growth Of the industry in this coun-
try which has made the motor car
OF these new specifications not only
possible but necessary. 1t is only
meet and just that America takes
the initiative in the development of
the motor car that will carry out
these conditions to the utmost
Mr.. ChrysIer also expressed him
self most optimistical over the
European export prospects for the
coming year. Chrysler cars, he
said, had met with decided approval
and were ranked among the most
popular American cars now being
sold throughout England and Con-
tinental Europe. The outlook for
increased Chrysler sales, not only
In England. but particularly in
France, Spain. the Scandinavian
countries, Holland, Belgium and
Germany is most promising. con
tract renewals with distributors in
those countries being vastly ahead