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Newspaper
High Point Enterprise
Location
High Point, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
May 12, 1929
Page
14
The 1929 Essex speedster adopts a three speed with overdrive to boost top speed with lower engine rpm. The design drops the final reduction, increases countershaft speed, uses Hyatt bearings, and adds a pedal‑activated lock for the shifter, while keeping low and reverse gears.
An AC Spark Plug bulletin advises revised spark plug gap settings from .025–.030 inches to .018–.022 inches and distributor point gaps from .015–.020 inches. It notes wide variation across systems, but most respond best to .015–.020, with checks every 1000 miles for breaker contacts, plugs, and ignition cables.
The Chrysler service manager urges every car owner to arrange fifty separate inspections before warm weather. Focus areas include steering components wheel alignment and tire pressure, braking fluid checks, and tightening chassis bolts plus topping up transmission and differential lubricants for smooth operation.
The morosaurus skeleton, on hand since 1880, was finally mounted at the Peabody Museum Yale University New Haven Conn. The 40 year wait is brief in paleontological history for a creature that lived about 120 million years ago. It was discovered in Wyoming as the first of its species.
Swedish engineer Martin A. Person has devised a device that lowers railway crossing gates as trains approach, using the weight of the incoming train to actuate the mechanism. This innovation aims to enhance safety at grade crossings.
The article notes the triumphal ear of King So bieski of Poland, reign period stated as 259 years ago, used as the altar of a church in Raddaz near New Brettin.
Detroit May 11 Exceeding its prior monthly best Chevrolet Motor company in April produced 157 137 cars and trucks, a new all time monthly record. First four months total 511 837 units, up from 477 967 a year earlier. May production planned around 160 000 as demand remains strong.
C L Clark of The Swiss Engineering Co Bombay India drove a Studebaker President Eight Roadster to a new Bombay Delhi record arriving in Delhi April 6 after 24 hours 10 minutes for 904 miles averaging 37.4 mph amid jungle mud sand storms and river water. The previous best 28 hours 31 minutes and 31.69 mph. Earlier the same car set a Calcutta Bombay record in 41 hours 30 minutes over 1466 miles. Eleven world records were achieved by this endurance effort in the model line.
Slogan etched on hundreds of legislative mite boxes directed at Montgomery County women. The effort aims to gather pennies for a central fund to send League of Women Voters members to Harrisburg to observe the state legislative machinery.
A Detroit maker cites the durability of a 20 year old car after receiving an order for a valve for that model. The owner resides in Detroit and comments on ongoing service needs and the vehicle's long life.
A car remains in daily use in York even after its crank case was sent to Nebraska to be repurposed as a power source for a circular saw. The 23 year old motor is being used as the saw’s drive.
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