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Hong Kong Price £376.
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THE CHINA MAIL,
WILLYS OVERLAND
REPORTS PROFIT OF $9,131,041
SALES GAIN IN 1929
Willys-Overland Company re
the force of my blow is tremen- dously affected by the speed of the car. When a fast moving car Arikes an obstacle, the impact is really very serious and the force of the blow is concentrated in a amall area.
A portion of a pneumatic tyre has lad blow-sufficient
ports in operating profit of sustained a
$9,131,041 before taxes and spe-
to break one or two strinds of the cerd fabric of the casing.
cial charges for 1928, as compared this damage may be sustained by with an operating profit of $7.331,234 for 1927. Taxes and preumatic tyre without the driver of the.car being aware of liberal write-offs, including pre-the fact. Days or even, weeks
paid items incident to introduc- tion of new models, leave a netay elapse between of $6,382357 for the year. This
the time of
the blow sustained by the tyre and after the burst which will be the ultim andate development arising from the blow. When the strands of the
'on the
330,459 additional shares · were issued.
in tension
is equal to $2.09 per share Federal taxes, all charges preferred dividends 2,526,684, common shares which fabric are fractured by a sudden, were outstanding during 1928 ap and violent impact, the caring na to December 28 on which date turally is continually
lowing to the air, pressure in the lube. It is en to imagine that In August, 1928 Willys-Overland this constant tension will tend to resumed dividenda, on the common large the fracture until it is trap the inner stock at the rate of $1.20 per large enough to share per year, and in addition tube between the jagged edges of the break. At this point usually paid to common stockholders of
a concussion burst occurs. It is record January 18, 1929 a common important to bear in mind that stock dividend of 5 per rent.
uch damage to the hidden part During the year outstanding bonds were reduced $1,000,000 and of the tyre the casing-may be without any outward preferred stock was reduced by
fout or damage being apparent on $774,000.
the tread.
A gain of 28.5 per cent. in sales during the first quarter of 1929 as compared with the same quarter of 1928 is indicated by Fresident John N. Willys in his letter to stockholders, in which he states that sales for the first quarter are expected to show more than 90,000 cars against 70551 for the first
quarter of 1928.
New
models and
sustained
A casing fracture may occur at any point of the casing-some- times in the catre, sometimes on the shoulder, and sometimes low down on the walls.
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Occasionally a double concussion This fracture can be sustained
sually happens when the tyre is badly under-inflated and when it the rim Increases in Willys-Knight de- gets trapped between mand since the first of the year edge and some hard object such as a brick or kerb-stone. A little have been beyond expectations, according to Mr. Willys state study will show how such a ment, so,much so that a 23 1/3 iouble fracture can be sustained.
In leading with this questioni per cent. 'increase in the highest planned schedule has been made. f concussion fractures, it must At the same time an increase of he stated that lengthy tests by 25 per cent. has been made in theyre experts have proved that correctly inflated tyres are almost Whippet Six capacity.
Immune from, concussion Rapid
in
frac- progress
Willys-
tures. Overland's export business is, in-
The ordinary type of blow dicated by a gain of 34.5 per cent. which a tyre receives during its in 1928 export sales over 1927, ormal life is usually insuffici.nt
to account and an estimated gain of 68 per
for casing fracture cent. in the first quarter of 1929 Provided the tyre has adequate over the first quarter of 1928.
dir pressure. If, however, the air!
to fail, the nearly pressure is allowed a doubled plant capacity for 1929 vulnerability of the tyre is great- have been provided, Mr. Willys increased.
The question is also linked points out, by an expenditure of
and here $7,425.121, including a new body with varying speeds,
tyre manufacturers have plant at Toledo, capable of match-gain ing the entire present 2.000 daily conducted exhaustive tests which chassis capacity of the plant, an conclusively prove that as the assembly plant, with a daily capa-pressure within the tyre is reduc city of 150 cars at Los Angeles, ed, fractures more easily occur and other plant improvements all and by a greater reduction of the of which indicate larger profits in pressure the fracture may be ab-i
tained of lower speeds. Whilst Greater
of course, one would always de- made, President Willys states, in plore striking an object at speed, the development of manufacture even when the tyres might be cor- and sales in 1928 than in Any rectly inflated, it is well to bear! previous year, resulting in an ex-in mind that while they are cor- cellent current outlook.
rectly inflated the chances of con- eussion bursts are smalleven when the impact with the obcourses in English and French are rear stacles occurs at moderately high being inaugurated in the speeds.
Some 40 chauffeurs willi be admitted to these courses. The taxi man probably has more to do with setting the foreigner at his ease In a strange city than is gen crally resized.
1929.
progress
has.
been
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This is the third article of a new and interesting series on tyres of to-day. It gives valu~. able hints on caro and main- tenance.] In the last article in this series, responsible for a new era in "fremdenverkehrskommission" which consideration was given to the in-economic development on the West is engaged in propaganda in this flation pressure question--one of Coast of Africa in the opinion of respect, has evolved yet another the vital questions in connection Murray G. Sawyer, General Motors scheme by which Anglo-Saxons and with pneumatic tyre usage and representative, whose territory other stringers with their gates life. It may be asserted with ranges 6,000 miles south from can be made to "feel more at home." confidence that practically 90 per Dakar, Senegal, and 1,600 miles While writing of chauffeurs, it cent, of premature tyre failures back from the African coast into may be also added that it has re- are due in some measure to in the Congo.
cently been decided that judrės | correct inflation pressure. We Although the population of the who are called upon 6 arbitrate in have seen the varying results of West Coast is widely scattered and cases of charges for excessive spead, running tyres at inadequate pres embraces more
100 native freckless driving, etc., would be able sures and we now come to the languages, Mr. Sawyer finds that to do so much more justly and easily consideration of "concussion business methods are very similar if they themselves knew some- bursts"--perhaps the commonest form of damage associated with mercial centres of the world.
to these employed in the big som- thing about driving in automobile. The judges will, therefore, take the balloon or low pressure type
Motor transportation in most of special ento courses during the of tyre.
the West African colonies is an coming months. In ary consideration of this integral part of the rail transporta form of damage, it is well to retion system. The two
are closely member that the constitution of interwoven in a co-operative plan to the introduction of motor vehicles. the cord casing of a pneumatic
serve the largest possible territory. The soil is of great fertility,. pro- motor tyre is necessarily a matter in the days before motor transport ducing palm olls, coffee, coda,
While
than
Six Cylinder Range and Hongkong Delivered Prices of careful compromise. stion came into use, the railroad tobacco, etton and other tropical
30 h.p. from £1,378 20 h.p. from £479
15 h.p. from £376 12 k.p. from £289
The Armstrong Siddeley Self Changing Silent 4 Speed Gear is available on the 20 h.p. model at £35 extra and 30 h.p. model at £59 extra,
15 h.p. Touring Car £376
12 h.p. Touring Car £289
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oyes red and weak at the end of the day, perhaps seriously strained, but only after suck experience do they remember to wipe the wind- shield at frequent intervals.
Driving in spurts of speed, at- tempting to set a record each day, is equally bad for the driver as for the car. He finds himself nervously and physically exhausted at the the casing must be sufficiently ro served a territory sixty miles wide, products and the old problem of
end of the day, while the experi Between eight and twelve million enged tourist who sete a steady, severity, it must also be sufficient or thirty miles on each side of the transporting these products to mar ly flexible to permit the tyre tone, 4 limitation that was due to ket is my approaching a solution Americans of all ages and condi-moderate speed and holds it is only bend and thus provide the desired the natives disinclination to carry Heretofore, the native has been sis tions, it is conservatively estimated, normally wearied by his day. And shock-absorption or comfort. freight on their heads for more than own freight-bearer, but to-day he is will take to the highways at some usually he covers more distance.
Irregular meals are another It will be obvious that if the thirty miles To-day the highway being released for other work. time during the 1929 touring season easing too thick and will not systems of West Africa am designed In the Belgian Congo the govern already begun Se
temptation to be avoided. Coupled New motor car owners by the with the desire to eat a heavy din- bend easily, comfort will be sacri- primarily as eder for the railment is prohibiting extensive use of ficed, and the running of the car made. Highways are not permitted porters by commercial firms and hundreds of thousands will join the ner on getting out of the car, they will be adversely affected. If, on to parallel the railroads, as they do insists that they use motor trus-cross-country drivers for the first can develop a fine case of indiges the other hand, the casing is too in most countries, except at irregu- port over roads in order to relieve time this season. Many experi- tion within a few days, Stop be thin, a fracture of the cord fabric ar intervals About every staty the native and turn him ints &enced drivers will try touring for fore you become fired," advises the first time. Very few of either Charlton. Relax before dinner, for can be caused by quite a light miles along the railroad there is a producer Twenty twenty class probably realize the vast dif- a day of driving in even the most blow or impact. It will be realis lateral highway and thirty miles be years ago natives stared to produce ference between short distance comfortable car makes you tense, ed that pneumatic tyre casing hind the road running parallel to cocoa on the Gold Cost. Last year driving around town and the con- fo for a stroll after dinner to falaz is manifaktured from material the railroad which connects with the naties produced approximately ditions imposed by days of steady your nerves as well as your which has definite limits as to these laterals, the purpose being to 230,000 tons of cova, having a travel behind a motor. It is for mules. Then take a bath and what it can stand in the way of furnish a feeder system without market value of about $175 a tia.
these that James Chariton, writer turn in, and you should have a concussion. No matter how care developing actual competition with Plantations Repleding Forests and veteran motorist, offers several restful night's sleep,"
Plantations are replacing the points of experienced advice in the fully or scientifically the tyre may the railroad itself. be constructed these limits re- There are in concrete highways forests, whare they are already current issue of "The Elks Maga main and we have already seen the West Coast except in served by highways and railroads, zine." that it is the aim of tyre manu- Nigeria, but the surface of the main and both French and British terri. Physical condition of the tourist facturers to arrive at such a com- highways is vay hard, obtained by tories an cultivating many acres of himself is as important as condi- promis constriction as will using laberite, a soft iron are which cocoa pen. „Strange confer upon the motorist the becomes armooth with us.
ann number of advantages:
ofahrtent/customs and
Marked Development veni
#marked and
agriculture
hen we think of pneumatic tyres aistalning blowa or impacts rapid les
in running, we often forget that and commeros la West Africa since native DİZİS
tion of the car, be points out, al- odern onthough many more this point un
Huma til it is forced upon them. the aster | Eye-strain is one of the most in- prosperous sidious evils of long-distance driv
ing, he shows. Many find their
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