. Automotive industries . aluminum plates. The aluminum dash comes right down tothe engine base chamber and is bolted to it. All the airhas to escape through the louvres in the side of the hoodor through the wire gauze in the lower portion of the alu-minum dash, and the only opening under the hood is for thefan belt, which is driven off the crankshaft. The steeringgear passes through the dash, but without leaving any shaft carrying carbureter and ignition control levers iscovered by an aluminum housing. The radiator is cowled,and the whole of the aluminum work is polished so as tomake
. Automotive industries . aluminum plates. The aluminum dash comes right down tothe engine base chamber and is bolted to it. All the airhas to escape through the louvres in the side of the hoodor through the wire gauze in the lower portion of the alu-minum dash, and the only opening under the hood is for thefan belt, which is driven off the crankshaft. The steeringgear passes through the dash, but without leaving any shaft carrying carbureter and ignition control levers iscovered by an aluminum housing. The radiator is cowled,and the whole of the aluminum work is polished so as tomake it as easy as possible to keep the engine clean. Thealuminum instrument board has two tubular supportswhich slide into sockets cast with the aluminum dash, thusmaking it possible to adjust the instrument board to anydesired position to suit the bodywork. One of the features of the Fonck is the use of semi-elliptic springs which have their greatest width, in., at 66 AUTOMOTIVE INDUSTRIES THE AUTOMOBILE January 13, 1921. Longitudinal section, Beck overhead valve motor at Brussels show the axle and gradually decrease to a width of in. at theextremities. The springs are underslung, have no clips,and take the drive and the torque. With this arrange-ment, two universal joints are required. The propeller shaftis tubular and of large diameter. The wheelbase of thischassis is 122 in., but with the compact engine the avail-able length for the body is 103 in. The eight cylinder hasa wheelbase of 142 in. The Italian Ansaldo Car Ansaldo, the largest general engineering firm in Italy,has entered the automobile field with what is considered inEurope a medium, general service, economical is a class of car which has no counterpart in America,for it is smaller and better finished than the Dodge four cylinders of the Ansaldo measure by in.,are a single casting with the upper portion of the base-chamber and have a detachable head with overhead cam-shaft. Th
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