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...Packard Motor Car Co. took the wraps off its 1954 models and a new Clipper Super series which will give it a complete range of cars from medium-priced ($2,500) to luxurious ($7,200) custom models. Except for rounding off the boxy look of earlier models, most of the changes were under the hood. Into Packard's Caribbean convertible has been put a new straight-eight, 212-h.p. engine with the highest compression ratio (8.7 to 1) in the industry...
...Ford Motor Co. plant in Cleveland, where rough engine-block castings are fed into one bank of 26 linked machines which hone, broach, drill and prepare the blocks for assembly, all automatically. Then the machines feed the blocks out the other end on conveyor belts, where still other machines and workers install pistons and carburetors. Formerly 117 machinists needed 4^ hours to finish an engine block; now with 41 men, the machines do the work in less than three hours...
Outboard Starter. Evinrude Motors announced a new 25-h.p. outboard motor with a built-in electric starter to replace the starter cord. Price...
...Door. A refrigerator with a built-in spigot in the door was introduced by Motor Products Corp.'s Deep Freeze division and Crosley. The tap connects itself with a large dispenser that holds water, fruit juice or other beverage...
Engine Cleaner. Shell Oil Co. brought out a new motor oil, which, it claims, will dissolve the deposits formed in engines when antifreeze solutions leak into the oil and make valves stick. Price...