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January 3, 1930 WILMETTE LIFE , MOTOR NEWS NORTH SHORE UNCOLN SALON CLAIMS MOTORISTS' AnENTJON Cheney and Kimbark, Inc., Offer Unique·and Complete Exhibit in Evanston One of the most unique and interesting exhibits in recent north shore motordom history is to be found at the salon to be opened this Saturday at Cheney and Kimbark, Inc., Lincoln dealers at 1822 Ridge avenue Evanston. The salon will continue' through January 11 and embraces a comprehensive showing of newest m0dels as well as a variety of details that go into coach construction, and accessories. Examples of superlative coach work by some of the country's leading custom body builders will be in the exhibit which will be held in the dealers' showrooms, 1822 Ridge avenue, Evanston. The exhibit will. be open daily, except Sunday, from 11 m the morning to 11 at night. These. fine types of body designs by ~he natJOI_l's master builders-in perteet keepmg with the refinement of their setting-will afford motor enthusiasts of the north shore the privilege of inspecting cars that show definitely the automobile body trends of the day. The showing will serve as the .debut locally of a striking new body type by LeBaron, a coupe sedan on a Lincoln chassis. a car that epitomizes the latest creative touch of this master. Another car that will be shown for the first ti':le is a fleet, streamline sport phaeton wtth a tonneau cowl, or second windshield protecting rear se:lt passengers. This car recently developed by Lincoln won a trimhph at the fastidious summer colonies at Newport and along the north shore of Massachusetts. A Judkins two-window berline and a \Villoughby limousine also will be among the fine products of the designers' art to be shown. The salon also will include exhibits that will picture graphically what exists in each car and chassis-what is hidden beneath the luxurious body, upholstery and finishings. An unfinished aluminum body, iJlustrating the material which goes into an Lincolns, and a cut-away motor, permitting the closest inspection of the precision-buill: perfection of the car will be on display also. Marvelous blocks accurate to one quarter of one millionth of an inch will be used to explain the precisio~ with which Lincolns are constructed. These Johansson gages, the most precise measuring instruments in the history of the world, played a large part in the standardization of the inch bv the United States Bureau of Standards, and the Ford Motor company built the blocks which the government uses. Other sets have been turned out for use all over the world. Other mechanical displays will include a copper plated chassis, a parts board, a rear axle assembly, an in-take manifold assembly and a crank-shaft and fan assembly. Visitors will find in 't he new Lincoln touring car a studied provision for increased ridinl{ space through many innovations that have been incorporated to allow the maximum of room and comfort while on long tours or shorter jaunts. The body is lower and streams from a gravity center with such fluent balance that fleetness becomes its dominant theme. Curtains which usually conceal auxil- New Lincoln Models to Be Displayed at Salon in Evanston Snowstorm W aa Heaviest in Decade, Reports Show The heaviest snowstorm of a decade, having its inception in the Mackenzie river district, swept southeast over the plains and covered the United States from the Mississippi to the Atlantic ~nd from the Great Lakes to the Gulf, with the largest blanket of snow in recent years, . according to the weekly road report of the Chicago Motor club~ In the Great Lakes region practically all roads were impassable for two or three days but are now open to travel. Often, yet, one-way traffic is necessary: In the east and south the snow, although heavy, (in some parts of the south it was the first snow in fifteen years), did not seriously obstruct tourists, and the condition was modifying rapi9ly. For the most part, the states lying Lincoln Phaeton, with body by Locke. This car is one of the many west of the Mississippi were unaffected exhibits of fine types, including some of the country's foremost body designers, by the storm, although a few flurries to be shown at the salon of Lincoln cars in the showrooms of Cheney and were reported. Kimbark, Inc., 1822 Ridge avenue, Evanston, from January 4 to 11. Famous Gage Blocks Now on Exhibit at Cheney-Kimbark, Inc. Sets of the most accurate instruments in the world are being shown at the Lincoln motor car salon at the sho,Hooms of Cheney and Kimbark, Inc.. 1822 Ridge avenue, Evanston, which opens this Saturday and continues through ] anuary 11. They are "the" inch, the famous J ohanSJOn gage blocks, which the United States Bureau of Standar& used extensively in its standardization of the inch, which hitherto had been c..n inexact ·sort of thing, sometimes varying as much as one millionth of the preci5e unit of measurement which fell heir to the name after the Bureau had clone its work. Johansson gage blocks are exact to one quarter of one-millionth part of an i~~ch-a space about 10,000 times finer than the thickness of the average human hair. They are used by scientists and mechanic::. for setting their precision instruments, such as micrometers. So deiicate are the blocks that the heat of a man's hand will expand them in one minute so that they will not go through a double micrometer us~d to check them. For this reason, they must be manufactured in a room in which the temperature is kept precisely at 67 degrees. Only men with fifteen years' experience are permitted by the Ford Motor company to make these precision instruments. The Ford Motor company manufactures the blocks for the United iary seats back of the driver have been omitted in the Lincoln touring car. Instead, scooped out places are found for increased leg room. In the floor at the foot of the tonneau seat is a depression that also gains greater roominess and comfort for passenger~ Whether the top is up or down, this new body spells trimness and speed, refinement, security and distinction. Shatter-pr_oof glass is used as in all Lincoln cars. Lincoln Sport Roadster, with body by Locke. This car is one of the mat!Y exhibits of fine types, including som~ by the country's foremost body destgners, to be shown at the salon of Lmcoln cars in the showrooms of Cheney and Kimbark, Inc., 1822 Ridge avenue, Evanston, from January 4 to ~1. government, foreign governother automobile manufacand for all enterprises conwith precision of m~asurement. first set cost approximately $30,000 to make, but Ford methods have been applied to the manufacture, making possible production for considerable less than $1,000 a set. In 1925 the Ford Motor company purchased the patents, secret processes, manufacturing and sales rights in North and South America of the blocks and moved 'the manufacturing facilities to its laboratories at Dearborn, Mich., where under the direct supervision of Carl E. Johansson, further efforts are being continued to develop their precision. A set of 81 gage blocks, such as are used in the tool rooms, can be combined to measure 120,000 different lengths from three-sixteenths of an inch to more than a foot, and each one of the combinations will represent a variation of one ten-thousandth part of an inch. The blocks are used on Lincolns, Fords and airplanes by the Ford organization and are the standard of the world for industrial precision measurement. States ments, turers, cerneq The Graham-Paige Adopts -. Non-Shattering Glau An announcement of radical dev<;lopment and improvement in connection with the 1930 production of automobiles comes from Graham- Paige Motors corporation in the news that after the first of the year all its cars irre~pective ~£ price, will be complete); equtpped wtth non-shattering plate glass in all windows, doors, and windshields. Although the · industry · has been debating the adoption of nonshattering glass as general equipment for several years, Graham-Paige is the first to specify it as standard in cars in the medium and lower price classifications. ' ..- > - BAN ON SOLID TIRES Beginning January 1, 1930, the use of solid tires will be prohibited in Norway declared a bulletin issued by The AutO: mobile Club of Illinois. This regulation is intended to force the e. ·elusive use of pneumatic tires in order to preserve the Norwegian roads. · There are 3,956,138 people now directly employed in the automobile industry.