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[[letterhead - General Motors Corporation   Broadway at 57th Street   New York, N.Y.]]

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[[boxed]]November 22, 1927.[[/boxed]]
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Mr. Rene Seligmann,
3 East 51st St.,
New York, N.Y.

My dear Mr. Seligman:-

This is the first opportunity I have had of acknowledging your letter of November 1st addressed to me in Paris, also yours of the 16th which I received a day or so ago on my return.  Both of these letters you remember deal particularly with the LaSalle car.  Reference is made to the Buick car, concerning which we had correspondence some months ago.

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I thank you for your criticism of the LaSalle car and I will have it gone into very carefully.  So far as the springs are concerned, it is very difficult in any automobile to work out a spring construction which will give the best result for all kinds of loads and all kinds of speeds and under all kinds of road conditions.  It is not impossible to assume that springs might be too soft for certain conditions - perhaps traveling at very high speeds as you do in France on roads that may be more or less unsatisfactory.  In such case, there is no reason at all why the springs can not be made stiffer.  On the other hand, if stiffer springs were adopted for all constructions, then there would be more or less complaint under operating conditions quite different. It means, I believe, a closer adaptability of a specific car to a general trend under specific operating conditions.

I myself have driven the LaSalle very comfortably at speeds over 100 miles an hour.  I felt very safe in the car even under this rather excessive speed.  However, this driving naturally, was under excellent driving conditions so far as roads and control were concerned.

I am always glad to hear from you about all these matters - it is very helpful - and it is only by knowing about the comments from the comments from the outside that we can do our job better.

Very truly yours,

^[[Alfred P. Sloan, Jr]]

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