Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-01-30
1927 MOTOR CAR SHOWS
AMAZING IMPROVEMENTS

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appeared a year ago. The car now
uses the Weymoon body.
Manufacturers of the larger eight
cylinder cars are well satisfied with
their automobiles. in the main.
Packard, Cadillac, Jordan, Lincoln and
Peerless may show a wider range OF
BODY stvle and slight mechanical
notifications or they may add an in
novation here and there, but on the
whole they are content to meet com
petition, be it ever so keen, with the
car they now produce.
Locomobile offers q larger eight tC
round out its line, a model to be
known as the $50. Diana sticks tC
its knitting With its car of last year
only slightly changed. Hupmobile'k
eight" offers many new features and
three new body styles.
The field of siX-cylinder cars has
been fertile in the production Of much
that is new and fine and indicative of
the manufacturer unhagging impulse
toward progress. Perhaps, there are
fewer new skies than lights" but
the man interested in the latest cars
in this mechanical class will find an
amazing number of features, trends,
notifications, innovations and new
creations to pique his curiosity.
Many improvements Made.
Cars that have borne names long
familiar have undergone sweeping inn
provements. Manufacturers that have
been known for the multiplicity of
models they produce have gone even
further this year If the maker of
q "A N
new car, he did not lag in the pro
duction of new models, wildly color
full, luxurious models, TO fill q need
that he saw untitled.
He, too, has reached out for new
markets. BY lowering his price or
continuing at the low price he already
had, he reached downward for public
approval. BY improving his product,
he reached upward for business. The
eight" manufacturer may take bust
ness from the sixes-since almost any
thing can happen in the world Of
motordom-but he will not do it with
out fight.
One must be arbitrary in selecting
trend with which to begin in describ-
ing the metamorphorsis wrought in
this vast field of the automotive in.
dustry
There is, for instance, the new note
sounded by two of the older concerns
the WHY'S and Studebaker corpora.
tons, in the production of European
type cars. These are the Whippet and
Erskine. The former has become
known as a name during the last six
or seven months in the four-cylinder
field. The latter made it's bow both
as name and q car, at the National
Automobile Show in New York
Principles Entirely New.
|. Both cars embody principles entirely
new in six-cylinder motor cars. Power
plants, of course, are the features Of
these cars that hold chief interest.
The engine of the Whippet has a bore
of inches and a stroke of
inches. It's piston displacement is
1863 cubic inches. The rated energy of
the car is 21.6 horsepower but It's
makers claim it will develop 40 horse
power against the brakes.
The Erskine, too, is reported to de.
velop 40 horsepower. 1t is equipped
with an L-head type motor of So
inch bore and Az inch stroke. It's
piston displacement is 1861 cubic
inches, and the engine reaches it's
energy peak at 1920 r. p. m.
The thought behind the manufac-
turer of both these small machines Is
not solely European. The economy
of operation that obtains on the con
tinent, together with the performance
standard demanded by the American
buyer, has been the objective Of their
producers.
Both are equipped with four-wheel
brakes and the mechanical and body
fittings of their larger brethren,
though, naturally, on a smaller scale.
In wheelbase, the cars run about the