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been sold in any previous year. Ac. cortingly, the consumer market during the next six months is potentially able to buy as many and probably more cars than in the cor- responding periods of any previous
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THE CHINA MAIL,
FRONT DRIVE CAR
TEST BY PUBLIC WILL SHOW IF STYLES ARE feasiblE
[By Al Parmenter]
Los Angeles, July 18. How will you have your car? Do you wish to be pushed or pulled?
GLASS
FOR FORD AND LINCOLN...
CARS
Glazing all the windows of a is a mighty task but to the Ford city of 31,000 dwellings every year
This choice will be offered auto. Motor Company the production of mobile huyers immediately with the ad- that much glass is only an inci yent of the front-wheel drive, a new dental item in the construction of departure from the conventional rear-{ automobiles.
wheel drive that has come as the re- Every year the glnas factory at sult of work by a Los Angeles ongin the River Rouge plant of the com- eer, Harry A. Miller, who has success-pany at Dearborn, Mich., turns out fully develop the drive for racing about 13,000,000 square feet for cars and now has adapted it to uso in Jur windows and pleasure curs for at eastern manufacYet that plant is but one of three -windshield...
turer.
For many months the Auburn and making plate glass for Ford and New Eru companies have been develop
Lincoln cars. ing and testing front-wheel drives and To produce that quantity the both are ready to offer their cure for Ford Company each year diga a sale. They will be known respectively hole in the ground equal to 110 as the Cord and Ruxton, The cars fet-deep. 110 feet wide and 110 will probably, be in local showrooms within three weeks.
Both are eights. The Cord will have a 137-inch wheel base and the Buxton 190 inches.
feet long for the 120,000 tons D mound of the same dimensions. raw materials needed, equal, to a
Those quantities are based upon
The coming of front-wheel drive is ja production rate of 41,000 square not a possibility, it is now a fact, feet a day, the normal Every Will all other or the majority of all fifteen minutes the furnace tanks other makers adapt it? Will all the are fed new batch making a motorists of Los Angeles to-morrow total daily consumption of about use a front-drive?
372 tons of raw materials.
If they do. Los Angeles will have had more to do with the development than would be suspected.
..
a daily ration for furnaces of 60 That rate of consumption means
tons silica sand, 19 tons of soda; Miller was mentioned for his part ash, 18 tons linestone, four tong before. E. L. Cord is president of Auburn. He is a Los Angeles product salt cake, cullet, charcoal and and now highly, advanced above his arsenic. For grinding and polish-; first status here as a grease boy in a ing the machines use 230 tons of
grinding sand, 14 tons of stucco 14 tons of garnet and a ton of rouge every day.
garage.
The Ruxton. A. M. Andrews, presi dent of New Era Motors, the makers, has a home in u Los Angeles suburb. Altadena.
Test in Los Angeles
And the place that will be watched first and most carefully for the re netion to the new style will be the Los Angeles are:. It is the crucible. Studebaker, General Motors, Chrysler --probably every maker has tuken talent from Los Angeles for executive; positions in their factories to show the why in automobile construction for where Los Angeles motorists have led the majority of the world's auto own ers have found a preference in motor
FORD PLANS
CONTRACTS FOR FACTORY AT LONG BEACH
Detroit, July 25 Edael B. Ford, President of the Ford Motor Company, ahtouneed before leaving for Europe, that contracts have been let for a new Southern Callfornia assembly plant, docks and transfer ware The new plant will e The answer to erected on a 40 acre piot of that question cannot be given. Opin- groundi opposite Terminal Island, ions may be expressed.
opens into the Pacific Ocean. at Long Beach Harbour. which
cur taste.
What about the universal use of house. front-wheel drivers?
A safe statement is that if they are universally adopted it will be a long period before they are in a majority. If they gain a majority or approach it the change-over will then become landslide in s rapidly.
There will be a slip and re inforced concrete dock 500 feet in length, with a two storey trans- i fer warehouse alongside. Mr. Ford stated that work will start The officials of the Miller plant and at once and will be rushed along Harry Miller in particular are first as rapidly as possible. It Is ex- entitled to an opinion of the probabi-pected that the plant will be, in lity. The statement comes from them
Universal Like Possible
1930.
Latest Ford Type
that the front drive is feasible for not operation early in the spring of only the $3,000 and $4,000 cars on which they are about to appear But are just as feasible for smaller care, cheaper mode's, and volume producers, Kahn, Inc., Detroit architect, will The plant, designed by Albert The statement is made that they arobe of the latest and most modern safer at high speeds, the tendency be-Ford type factory construction, ing for higher speeds, are safer while
turning, allowing higher speed in with the latest conveyer and dock turning, and gain power through pull equipment. It will consist of two ing rather than pushing.
unlta, a single storey assembly The power unit is compact and plant, 920 feet long by 300 feet allows leas' unaprung weight—a factor wide, with a single storey office in driving comfort, especially in rough building. and the two storey The first speaker for the present ad-440 feet long by 86 feet wide. transfer warehouse, which will be vocutes of the conventional type is Col. The total floor space Vincent, Packard vice-president.
will be in wire dispatch to the "Times" from excess of 250,000 square feet. Detroit is quoted:
All assembly plants built by the
travel.
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DURING LAST SIX MONTHS
Col. Vincent was asked to discuss Ford Motor Company within the front-whel drive-and the chance it is last few years have been of the Detroit, July 6.
to have in cars for next year and those single storey type, designed to Opinions difter widely as to the However, before it can be dean examination and trial of a front-
to follow, Hic answer was based on give a maximum of light and air. outlook for the automotive industry finitely said that such will be the drive racer he made in 1925, after he structed on the dock that it will The warehouse will be so con- in the last six months of 1929, a actual trend and capacity of the had bought for the Packard company permit discharging cargoes from subject which is receiving a great market, it is necessary to examine the front-drive Miller car which scored deal of discussion at the present those factors outside of the indus-a near victory in the Indianapolis race ships direct to the floors of the time, according to B. H. Cram, try which have either a positive or that year. This car came in second, building. Through the use of president of Cram's Automotive Re negative effect on new car sales, the closest any front-drive ever came to cranes and specially designed con- ports, Inc., industry authority.
There is paramount a feeling that combined into one classification principle for passenger car work might mechanically, eliminating all hand Briefly, all of these factors can be winning on the Indiana speedway test. veyors, loading and unloading of
Col. Vincen sald the front-drive ships will the industry has gone too far in buying power.
accomplished the first half year, both as regards The automobile industry in itself division of th, business, but that its
prove of some value to the sport-car trucking of materials: sales and production. Sentiment is a powerful factor in the creation possibilities were pretty well limited follows the line of thought that the, of domestic buying power. Being, to that field. Such cars built for pas
Shipments by Water market, in absorbing a record num- as it is, one of the largest ultimate senger work require ten to 12 inches parts for assembly at the new Shipments of car and truck ber of cars, has exhausted its possibilities and that the den and materials and one of the largest em.
consumers of raw and semi-finished more wheelbase than the rear-drive Pacific Coast plant will be made from this time forward will be a
cars, Col. Vincent said, and their turn-largely by water from the Ford ployers of man power, its effect on Ing radius sharply declining one, far below the American business is not
lengthened in greater pro- Motor Company plants at Kearny, levels established earlier in the estimated. Accordingly, the high much linkage to "eramp" in turning: inntic seaboard. The cargoes will over portion than that because there is so N., and Chester, Pa., on the At- rate of operation which the indus. The short-drive shafts in front and be carried in Ford owned boat, Runs Too High
try maintained In the earlier part exert four or five times the torque or
their angularity make the engine down the Atlantic, through the Production, it is said, has been of the year brought prosperity to twisting force exerted by the rear-Fanama Canal and up maintained at a rate entirely out of a widely varied range of Industries drive engines.
to Long proportion to even the record sales and to untold numbers of in-
Beach Harbour. As has been volume, with the result that the dividuals. The buying power thus lieves, limit the scope of front drive to Ford boats for the last few years, "Reasons Hk these, CoL Vincent be customary with Ford shipping in industry is heavily over-produced, created through this prosperity the larger wheat-base division and cut materiale will be shipped loose, .and a sharp curtailment will be comes right back into the auto-it off from the small car field there thus eliminating cost of crating
necessary to clean out the stocks mobile Industry, giving the whole fora volume output. He concedes the and boxing. of cars now on hard, let alone the course of business the aspect of a factor of safety in turning due to less The-plant is also on the line of necessity of abandoning the aggres-beneficial circle.
likelihood to skid, but he questions the Union Pacific Railway, giving alve schedules which have been in What is there at the present time front-drive ability to cope with rear effect earlier in the year.
This matter of over-production suggest that this circle has been velling rough or tortuous roads”
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has been. discussed at length by broken? Basic industries Oram's Automotive Reporta pre- sound. Steel output, despite some viously, and it would be only a mat-seasonal trend, Is still high. ter. of repetition to go into the sub- Carriers are prosperous and the On the provincial road system inperty has been filled and a chan- ject again at this time. It is only agricultural situation, while not at Alberta, 1,140 miles has been brought nel dredged to a depth of 32 foot necessary to point out that in the its beat, is fairly strong and should to grade and provided with culverts, The plant is required to take care opinion of Cram the danger of over-release a flood of buying later in 827 miles given one or two courses of of the increasing demand for the production at the present time is the year. Industry has not yet ftit or ether surfacing.
gravel, and 41 miles given clay, shale
дет Model A Ford car in the greatly exaggerated. the pinch of restricted crodit, with averaged 38 per cent, miscellaneous 10 The company's present, Southern
Grading has Southern
California territory. Accepting this premise, the plenty of moduy, available and no and 5 per cent, and drainage 12 and 5 problem of production can be dis- Indication of any unusual tighten per cent,... regarded, for it is unlikely the outing in the near future,
California plant, located in Los Angeles, is no longer adequate to put in the forthcoming period will In other words, business gen-maining months, and that fact as care for the heavy demand for erally is in as fondamentally sound well does not in any sense of the Ford products. It will be discon The whole runttor reste, as seen part of the year. The ability to buy seasonal trend, apparent in every pleted and decupled
condition as it was in the first word imply impending disaster. A tinued when the new one is com by Gram's Automotive Reports on has not been curtailed and certain other year of the industry's history, the question of whether or not, the ly the desire to buy has not will unquestionably make its ap new plant principally. In the sup While the plan is to use the record sales of resent months have diminished exhausted the pubila's Consumption. Actual purchases of new cats same time the volume of business to the Southern California terri pearance this year. But at the plying of the company's products power. First of all in the face at have admittedly declined somewhat for the remainder of the year cam tory, it is also available for some 000. A unique feature of the site ordinary conditions the market is in the last 30 days. That Is no quite logically be thoroughly in of the Asiatic business. The is that it is split-by the boundary capable, so far as is known, of con cause for alarm. Likewise, sales proportion to the operations. In the plant and equipment will repre- line between the two cities, Los Zaming far more care than have will continue to drop during the refrat six months of 1929.
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In the first quarter of 1929 Gen Most of the factories are now bayeral Motora sales to oversens dealers says “Motor”. Cycling," on the new amounted to 54,212.cars, as Zompared modele for the Olympia Show and
with 66,987 In the corresponding porlod of 1928. This reduction does rumours are current of highly camou-
not in any sensa represent a change in flaged new models being tried out in
the demand but rather reflects the the Midlands From all accounts it is limitations ca production due to an ex- not likely, the writer states, that there tensive revamping of certain of the will be any very general diversion corporation's inodels, which condition from our old friend the single-cylinder has also been reflected in the reports engine in 1934. It seems, however, covering movement of cars thethe do
that the trade's first job for next year should be to get down to the standard- laid down some months ago by the Ination of controls.A sefedrilo was Manufacturers Unioa, and it surely aught to be adopted universally for
nett skason's moda
mestic markets.
fusion were at an Edinburgh hospi
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