“TERRAPLANE” CAR

Hawera Star, Volume LII, 19 November 1932, Page 12

“TERRAPLANE” CAR

SIX-CYLINDER, YEHICLE. AMERICAN INDUSTRIAL DEVELOPMENT. One of the pioneer motor-car nianr faoturers in America has stimulate' motor activities by announcing the in troduc-tion oi a new type and kind o car, having engineering character istics of the aeroplane and named tip “Terraplane” Because of this fact. The “Terraplane” is a six-cylindei car, which will sell in the lowest prior class. Quantity production of tin “Terraplane” has begun, according l< information received, and already m additional 10,000 employees have rr turned to work, thereby greatly relieving the Detroit unemployment situa tion. The “Terraplane,” the announce mont states, has all the feel, road ability, and substantialness of heavy cars costing up to ten times as much This is accomplished by making tb body and chassis a structural entit instead of two independent units boiled together. In the “Terraplane” thimerging of body and chassis has bee: accomplished for the first time on t production motor-car, the announce ment states. The same pressing which forms, tin web of the frame, giving it a. rigidit never before accomplished, is also- t>bottom closure of the body, making th car an actual single-unit structure. A six-cylinder engine has been select ed for the new car because of the fac J that this engine is in absolute matne matical balance. The actual developer horse-power is seventy, with a com pression ratio of 5.5 to 1.