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...consensus of opinion indicates that the new motor will have a single sleeve-valve engine. This engine was perfected in Scotland, and has been widely used in the "Argyll" car abroad. Louis Chevrolet, automobile builder, has recently been trying it out with a view to adapting...
...production, to 1,500 cars a day. Hudson goes even further, planning a 100% increase, to 2,000 cars a day. Similarly, output capacity per day is being arranged by Buick for 750 cars, by Chrysler for 800 to 1,000, by Willys-Overland for 1,100, and by Chevrolet for 2,200. These of course are maximum figures. Yet estimates of 1926 car production call for a 40% increase over 1925 for these six popular makers, as follows...
MAKER 1925 1926 Dodge .............................. 275,000 375,000 Hudson ............................ 275,000 450,000 Buick ................................ 185,000 200,000 Chrysler .......................... 146,000 250,000 Willys-Overland .......... 239,000 330,000 Chevrolet ........................ 490,000 660,000 Total...
...Angeles, a sprinter, one Keith Lloyd, cousin of Harold Lloyd, crouched for his start, glancing nervously at his opponent. A pistol roared. Away went Lloyd. After him sprang his rival, a little Chevrolet* automobile. Lloyd, "champion sprinter of the University of Southern California," was three strides ahead before the spitting, snorting car had got into second. At the finish, man and car were neck and hub, timed at 10.3 in a dead-heat finish...
...This Chevrolet had already demonstrated its superiority as a sprinter in eight heats against some half-dozen higher priced 4-cylinder cars...