Word: chevrolet
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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General Motors was clearly on the way to its place in such a mass-production situation. Its Chevrolet car, brightest star in a banner year, issuing from the factories at the rate of one every twelve seconds of the working year,* has sold in numbers 40% greater than last year. Indications were that Chevrolet would be the largest singly advertised product in the U. S. next year...
...were created especially for Buick . . . the finishes on the new Buicks are in Coronation tones, the year's smartest custom effects . . . for the first time a vacuum- cleaned crank case to protect closed car passengers from engine fumes." Cadillac. Five hundred color combinations, 50 body styles and types. Chevrolet has centralized throttle and spark control and automatic stop light on all closed models; brighter, more striking Duco colors; new motor mounting; new camshaft. Nash has refined motor, 25% more power, 23% faster accelerator, new instrument board. Oakland. "The rubber-silenced chassis"; new bodies, new Duco colors. Star offers "more...
...Chevrolet gets $8,000,000 to expand its plant. Now it is losing trade from inability to supply demand...
...scale puts the Ford, beyond all immediate competition, as the lowest priced car in the U. S. But, although Henry Ford always has one eye cocked a-wind for competitive drifts, he always goes his own way, explains nothing. The current this time is not of necessity pushed by Chevrolet with its daily production of 3,000 cars, nor by the new Overland Whippet, nor yet by the threat of small foreign models. The demand for Fords has abated, although not so much as some journalistic conjecture would have...
...machines will be in three models-a two-door coach and two-seat coupé (both $735 f.o.b. factory) ; a touring car ($645). They have a four-cylinder, small-bore, poppet-valve engine of 15 horsepower on a 4% in. stroke. Their wheelbase is that of the Ford and Chevrolet, 100 in. The overall height is 5 ft., 8 in. with a low centre of gravity due to an 8% in. axle-clearance and the standard 56 in. tread. Tiny balloon tires, smaller even than Ford balloons, have been furnished by Fisk...