Passengers look through the safest and clearest windshields ever manufactured, made of the new Hi-Test safety plate glass, product of six years of experimentation. Its secret lies in the new type plastic devised to bond together the two sheets of polished plate glass. Hi-Test glass is iso used in the side windows of all edan models.
Outstanding among chassis features of the 1940 Oldsmobiles is of course the quadri-coil springing and four-way stabilization responsible for Olds rhythmic ride. Further refined and improved this season, the rhythm mic ride has been still bettered by the increased wheel base length employed, and by new double action hydraulic shock absorbers of an improved design. These now function instantly with the lightest spring deflection, completely controlling all up and down movement safily and easily.
Super-hydraulic brakes are of course again a feature of Oldsmobile. No effort has been spared to make them safe and sure in operation. Typical of this is the fact that the tubes which carry the hydraulic pressure to the brake drums have a safety factor of 50 to 1. After assembly in the chassis the braking systems are tested under 500 pounds pressure for leakage, a pressure far
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