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...Chevrolet's special feature for this year is to be found only in the Fisher bodies of the Master De Luxe models. It is called the "Turret Top." This top consists of a single sheet of heavily insulated seamless steel which extends from the top of the windshield well down below the level of the rear window and which is welded to the sides of the body, and heavily reenforced by bows of steel. The special construction of this "turret top" protects driver and passengers from weather discomforts, outside shock, engine and body noises, and eliminates roof leakage. These tops...
...General Motor's new Turret-Top is featured particularly in the Pontiac. Also included are the following; improved knee-action, special hydraulic brakes, silver alloy bearings, improved ventilation and cooling, electro-plated pistons and a radiator grille that apparently runs right over the top of the hood into the windshield...
...race President Coyle entered two lines of Chevrolets, the Standard and Master De Luxe. The Masters have "knee-action" front wheels, new all-steel "turret" tops by Fisher Bodies, are longer, roomier, more streamlined. The Standards have conventional springs, conventional steel bodies. But while the Masters are priced at last year's levels, the Standards have been cut $10 on almost all models, putting them as much as $25 below Ford's standard line. In the past year Chevrolet sold about 100,000 of the lower-priced Standards, will push them strongly in 1935 as a good transportation...
Oldsmobile brought a six and an eight to the Show, both redesigned and bearing the slogan "The Car That Has Everything." "Everything" includes knee-action wheels. engine-over-axle, all-steel "turret tops" by Fisher...
...Battle's battle: white uniforms on the bridge flapping against a grey sky in what seems to be a mingled whine of wind and speeding turbines; the commander getting the enemy's range again & again in his finder, announcing it in a flat singsong; one gun turret after another reporting "Ready"; a lone survivor in one gun turret groping to the telephone for instructions; sailors, protected by masks and helmets, staggering about in fume-filled turrets, loading the guns (see cut, p. 44). The battle is bitter and bloody. When it is over and victory has been...