New Britain herald., 1926-03-10
FIRST SHOWING OF
 PACKARD CAR HERE
Distributors Have Newest Models at Automobile Exhibit

Those who have attended the na- l!0nal automobile shows for q num- ber of years may be disappointed by the lack of radical innovations dis covered at the present exhibition. To the layman only casually inves- tlgatng today's motor cars notlce- able changes will be slight as com- pared with those Of even two or three years ago.
 Nevertheless, important advances have been made in the very recent pact. Improvements have been en- ginccred into modern chassis which, while hidden from view and effect ing no immediately noticeable i'm proyement in operation, have just as truly marked a new era in motor car design and manufacture as did the electric starter. The most i'm portant Of these mprovements at- feet fabrication.
 Nothing has been more respon- sible for the rapid depreciation of motor cars than the pure human element of neglect. It is probably not too much to say that proper care would double the life of almost any car. Proper car Of motor car is nine-tenths q question Of regular and proper fabrication. The great problem has been to get around the human element in the equation and provide some means for automatic ally assuring that fabrication which means so much to the owners pock- ltbook.
 The car which will take care Of itself Is still In the distant future. But two manufacturers, each inter ested Tn 3 specific problem and de- rarmined to find its solution, have. in cooperation with Packard, de- developed practically automatic sys- loms. one for the fabrication of the chassis and the other for guarding the purity of the engine oil. These systtms lessen chances Of neglect and the consequent rapid wear of parts.
 The system which has been deveI- oped by Joseph Blur, in co-opera- lion with Packard engineers, makes the proper fabrication Of chassis bearings the work of an instant,
 The other recent development Of basic importance in motor car de- sign is the Skinner system Of recti- lying the motor oil.
 The reason that motor car manu- lecturers oil companies, garages service stations and repair shops continually urge owners to change their crank case oil every 500 miles is because the oil has been thinned down after that much running by gasoline. water and harmful acid eolntions which in the past it has been impossible to exclude from the crank case,
 Modern. heavy fuel permits all unnxploded liquid residue of less volatile clements 10 leap down past inc piston rings and dilute the crank cnar oil, destroying it's luhricating qualities.
 rntD Ralph l.. Skinner with the aid and cooperation of Packard facilities and Packard engineers per foctnd the Skinner rcstitier and the Skinner system of preventing crank rasn diution there seemed no way 10 stop this harmful process.
 
 AS result of ih"so highly 1m- portant improvements tn" mnnufac- ,rror of fine cars today is able to deliver a car not only well designed and well built. but which is well equipped to deliver first-class trans portation with q minimum Of aft"n- ton, service and expense for a full foo.0 .0do miles. There is that much transportation In every Packard car for it's original purchaser to take from the vehicle if he wishes M D. Honnvman, local dealer.