Putnam patriot., 1930-04-10
Easy To Control In
 Congested Traffic
Cadillac and LsSaile Keen Pace With Modern Motoring Demands Tor
 Maximum of Safety

With modern motor cars faster, larger. and more powerful than ever before; and with metropolitan trarle increasingly cengested; ease Of motor car operation. and precision of con trol must be at q maximum for safety A ear which can be guided through the thiekest traffic by a slight move ment of the hand which can instantly take advantage of an opening in traffic without grinding or ciashing gears; and which can be promptly stopped by the light pressure of a wo. mans foot IS necessary Tor safe ana comfortable motoring.
 Cadillac engineers have provided this easy, effortiess operation in Cadil- lac and LaSalle motor cars through constant refinement of the three ma for factors in driving ease: the steer ing and braking systems. and the trans mission. They have made notable progress in bringing about an ease of operation which Is remarkable. This driving ease is made possible largely by the Cadillac ac-designed Harmonized Steering: the Cadillac-designed Safe ty-Mechanical four wheel brakes; and the silent shifting Syncro- Mesh Trans mission.
 Positive steering control is essential for safety. IL must be available, furthermore. with minimum ot eI- fort on the drivers part. Cadillac Is the first car manufacturer to go all the way in supplying this control through harmonizing all units of the steering system.
 No Interruption
 Many an opportunity to take ad- vantage of a brief opening in traffic is lost because conventional transmits sions require brief pause between gears. Cadillac engineers satisfied themselves that driving time could be materially shortened if this delay could be eliminated.
 The svnchronized transmission, a Cadillac and General Motors patent, is the result of their long and painstak- ing experiments. It instantly syn chronizes the speed of the driving and driven gears whenever a shift IS to be made. The pause in neutral IS not necessary. The result is no inter ruption of the forward motion Of the car: and virtually no loss of it's mo- mentum.
 This synehronizing transmission is ranked by Cadillac engineers with the self starter fpioneered by Cadillac in 1a12) and the compensated crank shaft (introduced by Cadillac in i925). Through 1t. owners have found gear shifting to be as etfortless as steering. The shifting movements are conventional, clutch action is exactly thS same as on any other car.
 Through an articulated cam. which transmits the brake pedal pressure to the brake shoes by an easy, rolling action. Cadillac LaSalle mechanical four wheel brakes provide the neces' sary certainty and ease of action. The full surface of the shoes is always 1T use. Heel and toe" contact with th' brake drum Is eliminated. with con sequent increase in braking efficiency 3 per pound of pedal pressure. - Perhaps most important--e especial $ Nv to the woman driver--is the fac - that fifteen sets of roller bearings ar a used in the brake system whereye - friction in the linkage would affee e braking ease. Thus, light pressur v on the pedal is transmitted to tn
 brake shoes with practically no los
 through friction.