THURSDAY, JANUARY 23, 1930.
FORD PRODUCTS
LABOUR POLICY
Aspects of New Bill
An All-Metal Air
(Transport
Criticised
The general public will be rellev- } Sale of the first all-metal Ford
THE CHINA MAIL.
|JUDGE ON ACCIDENTS
Twelve Miles Per Hour Thought Reckless
ed to know that the Government air transport to a European govern.cently Mr. Justice Avery stated that have decided to penalise "joy-
law a husband cannot be convicted
£340,000,000
Colossal Expenditure On Roads
Those of our readers who have
In the King's Bench, Division re-
not forgotten Willans' Law will be cases of collaiona between motor riding." The text of the Home meat was announced recently by the vehicles the
common practice of aware of its value in keeping the Secretary's Bill, recently issued, is. | Ford Motor Company, following the drivers was to suggest that if their mind concentrated GA essential however, far from satisfactory; it receipt of cable dispatches from vehicles skidded it was unavoid issues, and a similar rule would be is to be hoped that it will become
able, and that they were personally very acceptable for dealing with Prague. law in a very different form, Bar-
relieved from blame. It was no The big monoplane was purchas exaggeration to say that 90 -rister-at-inw writes in the Autocar.
the transport question. At the per For instance, under the presented by Czecho-Slovakia, where it was
cent. of the skids were caused by present time, it is unusual to open demonstrated by Leltoy Manning, drivers applying their brakes aud-, n newspaper without finding one of stealing from his wife, nor a/chief test pilot of the Ford Motordenly when the vehicles were going!
too fast, and it was no excuse to this subject, but it is rare indeed articles dealing with say that vehicles skidded and that the accident could not be helped. that the essential issues Are Bet The Judge added that it was a out. While in no way wishing to fallacy nowadaya for a driver to think that if he were only going minimise the importance of good twelve miles an hour he could not roads as factor in national be in the wrong after an accident. prosperity, it is at least arguable In the old days of horse-drawn that there has been a tendency to
apeed of twelve miles an hour
wife from her husband, while they
is
Czecho-Slovakia Company.
to the pos. are living together. If, therefore, turning its attention Mra, A. being short
sibilities of air transport because of money, proceeds to sell her husband's car, has no seacoast and must rely on and make use of the proceeds she airways for the export of its pru- can only be abused, and not products in its own carriers. secuted by Mr. A. Under the new
Sale of the Fold plane was Bill, however, if Mrs. A., having withheld until the confpletion of the been told by Mr. A. not to take out tour on which it was sent by the his car, danteys these instructions Company last summer.
This tour
31 mure
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and goes for a drive she can be took the transport into twenty-one vehicles, if a man admitted to a ver-emphasis in this direction in
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sent to prison for three months or different countries, on what fined £50, or, if she is committed doubtally was the longest demon.everybody would have said at what recent years.
for trial, sent to prison for twelve stration trip in the history of months and fined £100.
aviation.
Again, if a chauffeur takes the Reports from Europe indiente has done much to car out, against his master's orders, that the tour
he is liable to the same penalty-stimulate interest abroad in Ameri
Between 1920 and
a reckless speed he was driving. 1927, the last year for which full The judge was summing-up in a details are available, the total ex- personal injuries se to u comnion penditure on roada has exceeded a jury, who awarded damages of total of £340,000,000, and it 19 £600 to Mrs. Marie Henrietta probably only because the major Rond, Chelsea, and of £350 to Mrs. the rates that it has not created Lilian Arnall af Joubert's Man- any appreciable disquietude. ylons, Jubilee Place, Chelaca. They were injured last January sensus of opinion about whether It is impossible to reach any con-
when a taxicab in which they were pur annual expenditure on road riding collided with a private motor- construction and maintenance has
and that even if Mrs. A. has coaxed can avaition, inasmuch as leading Chambin, of Thurloe Court. Fulham portion of this cost has fallen on him into doing 80, unless he juvintora, aeronautical engineer genuinely believed that Mrs. A. and airplane manufacturers in the had equal authority with her hus different countries visited, as well as high officials of the various governmenta, were taken for rides in the big American ship.
hand to give him the order, or that Mr. A. had changed his mind and indicated the change through Mrs. A.
Look Before You Leap!
Motor Company, who accompanied the plane over Europe.
Manning, who piloted the plane over Europe, landed at virtually every important airport оп the It is necessary to be careful in continent and visited a large num the creation of u new criminal ber of airplane factories. Arrange. offence. There are many nctions ments for his tour were inade by J. which are wrong and which can be Parker Van Zandt of the Ford penalised civilly, but which it is nut desirable to make criminal. The object of the new Bill is to: prevent motor thieves and irrespon sible persons
for "borrowing" vehicles which they have no sort of right to use, but, in effecting this object, the draftsman has in cluded persons whom it is clearly
undesirable to muke criminals.
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An Interesting Phase
the ail
car.
IN THE SOUDAN
Changes Bringing
reached the point of extravagance, but those who favour the present lavish scale can at least point tu the enormous development in traffic which has accompanied the policy, Quite apart from the increase in touring cars, of which the numbers 'an the ronds have nearly The report of Lord Lloyd, High Com. quadrupled in the past seven years, missioner, on the Finances, Adminis- the number of motor-cycles was tration, and Condition of the Soudan more than doubled in the
Prosperity
same
the people are receiving justice on what misleading, as they do not lines which are readily acceptable to take account of a marked increase in the average load per vehicle. A
In 1928, recently published as a Blue period, while commercial vehicles Book, is n record of progress in many have increased from 135,000 to One of the interesting phases of the tour was the visit of the all-
directions.
305,744. It is hardly too much to metal transport to Moscow. The ar-
Lord Lloyd, referring to the schema rival of the plane was mude the ac-
for devolving, gradually. to the tribal say that the bulk of these increases casion of a great demonstration andtrative functions as it is within their ed road facilities.
authorities such judicial and adminis is directly attributable to improv.
Another anomaly in the Bill is aviation figures of the Soviet nation,
a banquet altended by the loading capacity to perform, says:-
Of the figures mentioned, those Experience of the new nativa referring to commercial vehicles that, whereas, on the one hand, a
of including officinis
courts, which have come into exist-are the most.important, since they takes out the car ministry. chauffeur who
ence more particularly in the north represent a large diversion of goods against orders is guilty of an
ern provinces, has shown that much and passenger transport from the offence, if. on the other hand, he During its passage over Europe, good work has been done, that the railways to the roads. The figures goes further and lends the car to the plane was not late in a single
tribal chiefs have Intelligently real in themselves are, however, some- a friend, who believes he has the instance, in reaching a city scheduled ised their responsibilities, and that right to lend it, neither he nor the on the tour. Between August 3 friend will be guilty of an offence. and October 6, the period of time From the owner's point of view, embraced within the demonstration however, this latter act is a much trips, the plane was, in twenty-one more serious breach of duty than countries and flew over several the former, and far more likely to more. It carried more than 4,000 involve him in pecuniary loss, e.z., passengers, landed at 46 airports owing to the friend's bad driving, and flew a distance of approximate The substantive words creatingly 15,000 miles. The rapidity with the offence are "every person who which it covered Europe was seen takes and drives away from any from the fact that demonstrations place any motor vehicle.... Is were held in three different coun- guilty of an offence," so that a man tries in a single day, and in seven who pushes a car, or a man who countries in seven days.
No motor trouble was encounter-question of transport, and it is a com- enters it, preparatory to driving, is not guilty of an offence until he ed on the trip.
forting reflection that the complation
them.
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THE LAW:
of time to both the Government and per week is now common on many DRUNKENNESS AND the commercial community was a fea provincial roads, and credit is due ture of the development of roads, rail, both to the hole designier and ways, and motor transport all over the to the road constructor for the fact country. Air travel, both official and that these roads are standing, such private, had become an accepted part loads, upon the whole, without un- of the transport system. Landing
duly rapid depreciation. Er. grounds existed at all important and many smaller places in the Soudan.gineering.
Dealing with the general economie situation the report states:-
"Much attention has been paid to the
drives away. As a power of arrest Reports to the Ford Motor Com of the new railways and the advance without warrant is only given to pany stated that the crew experiin motor transport are a further in- a policeman affor an offence has enced bad flying weather at dif |surance against the risks of possible been committed, it is rather bad ferent points along the route, part!- food shortage. The future can be luck on the policeman. He will calarly over the Balkans, Con, faced with much more equanimity than have to stand and watch prepara- stantinople was described as one of
was possible when the country tions for an offence being made, the most beautiful cities of Europe
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The plane was sent for exhibition
years ago,”
WAS
FITNESS
The Age of "Ford" Workers
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Sir Montagu Sharps, K.C., chair- man of Middlesex Sessions, refer- ring to two alleged offences of being drunk while in charge of motor-cary, suggested that the grand jury should consider whether It would not be advisable for them to make The United States Department of some presentment in reference to first threatened with scarcity four Labour's Monthly Review states the matter.
that In. unable to interfere until a chance from the air.
a recent interview, There was enormous motor traffic Standard of Living Is given to him to risk his neck by
Mr. Ford declared that rumours through Middlesex, he said, and the The report also states that there is circulated from time to time to the court was continually having this jumping into or in front of the now at the International Aircraft Show no doubt that the native standard of effect that the Ford plants are re-class moving car...
of case brought before it: at Olympia Gardens, London, by the living is rising throughout many parts
the ordinary man in the Further, it might reasonably Ford Motor Company in June. It of the country, and that the native fusing to employ anyone over 40 While
Under no cireum- street would not hesitate to say have been thought that quite a use attracted much attention while dis-motor-bas"-often merely a
lorry were untrue.
a doctor ful provision would have been one played there, among those who carrying a confused mass of goods and stances, he said, would he have a that a man was drunk.
passengers has made its appearance. Personnel of young men only. "As might say that the man, was not enabling the Court to award the entered and inspected it being the
A seat from Wad Medani to Khartum'a matter of fact," he went on, "we more than 80 per cent. drunk. whole or part of any fine inflicted Prince of Wales and other royalty. (110 milca) cost only 38.
should prefer, if we could make Other doctors were called for the to the owner of the car in order to Much Interest also was aroused at
Large arons in the Soudan were the choice, to have all of our defence to say that the accused was save the expense of further civil the great European airports of rapidly becoming mechanised, while people between 35 and 60 years old, suffering from malaria or some wor proceedings. The private Bill pre- Templehoff, Berlin and Le Bourget, the growth of air traffic also marked for then we should have a stable trouble.
The above figures are those sent considers it to be the greatest flaw sented by Sir Gervals Rentoul with Paris.
л new phase.
and experienced force. We would The Chairman added that he by the makers but, in the absence in the Bill and continues:--"A not care how much over 60 the men could quite understand how difficult of detalls, scem difficult to recon- daily paper which has not shown were so long as they could do their It must be for a petty jury to say cile with further data also given, itself favourably disposed to work." While a man 70 years of whether a man wis-drunk and mascarding to which the high-pres- motorists on all occasions repeats age could not be expected to have capable of driving a car. He felt sure turbna, and generator will be} in effect what we stated last week as great physical endurance as a that the law should be altered to the mounted directly on top of the low-when it says: "There is not at pre- man of 25, the older man, Mr. Ford effect that where a man took drugs held, should have something much for drink so as to render himself in- moro valuable. The employment capable of properly performing the department recorda indicated that duties of his office he should be the jobr requiring endurance were, deemed to be drunk.
the same object as the Government Bill provided for both these last
two matters.
When Consent May Be Assumed
The actual offence under the Government Bill is that of taking i and driving away from any place any vehicle without the consent of the
thereof and without owner other lawful authority, but it is made a defence to a charge if a defendant can prove that he acted in the belief that he had lawful authority or in the belief that the owner would, in the circumstances of the case, have given his consent if he had been asked therefor.
If a car is borrowed in an emer -gency such as fire, sudden illness, felony or the like, the unauthorised borrower will have a defence under the last proviso, as any reasonable person would lend his car in such circumstances.
The Bill applies to motor vehicles only, and not, as Sir. Gervals Rentoul's private Bill applied, to all vehicles. No doubt Joy-riding la mostly confined to motor cars and motor cycles, but there scozos no reason for not giving alimilar protection to the owners of horses and carts or even to bicyclists..
This is a much needed Bill and la to be hoped that I will speedily become law, but it seems equally desirable that it should be considerably amended first. In par ticular, a clause disqualifying per- *sons who commit ofences under the new Bill and motor thloves from holding a driving licence, and making them liable to avere penal- ties if they drive when disqualified, (would help to keep there, pesti of
the road.
Henry Ford is the head of what is probably the largest auDOMAINES - facturing company bi the world. His yearly, barirall focuses to many millóns) - Ha recently spent a verifabia fortune is a mynstar calebration. In honor of Thomas Edison, Yet this multi-enllionaire: waarn the sama" shoe at his lowsas paid laborir.” He oily pass 36.26 for them and lo and dolla – behold; DEN LAN abom of my other ordilary pérson, they sometimes plïích.
In general, best performed by men When, at the conclusion of their 40 years of age and offer. Younger duties, the grand jury returned to workers seemed to grow weary of court, no views were expressed on this kind of world rather quickly the Chairman's observations. and wished to be transferred to
less heavy jobs.
At the time of the interview, the 110,000-K.W. TURBINE
Ford plants had more than 120,000
employees in and about Detroit. Constructed for the Ford These workers had not been classified by age, but a short time
Works before when the personnel number-
pressure turbine and generator, sent on the Statute Book, and ought Possibly, however, the floor level not to be, a lawmaking it a penal referred to above may be many offence to do a certain act under feet above the base of the machine. certain undefined circumstances The initial steam pressure is to be which it is unlawful to do under 1,200 lb. per square inch, with a
circum- other equally, undefined total temperature of 726 deg. F. stances."
On leaving the high-pressure sec- "The clause talks of 'all the cir- tion, the steam will be withdrawn cumstances of the case, and from the turbine and reheated to driver can be fined as much as 450 29 in. The speed will be 1,800 dividual constable or private cltl- 550 deg. F. The designed vacuum it.. in, the, opinion of a single in-
volta.
r.p.m., and the generators will de zen-it, is considered that traffic liver 60-cycle current at 13,800 might reasonably have been ex-
pected to be on a road. The air coolers will, it is stated, The fact that there is a care- be Integral with the generators, the less driving' clause does not affect heat losses in which will be utilised our firm and unflinching opposition for feed heating. To provide the to the reckless and dangerous driv condensing water required, a tuning clause in relation to the new nel 81⁄2 miles long and 15 ft. in and greatly increased penalties, for diameter is to be constructed be- we are convinced that with no tween the River Rouge and the De speed limit motorists are likely to
per 24 with grave injustice."
ed about 90,000, such a classifica- A steam turbine of a remarkable tion, had been made, and the age type is being constructed by the arpups were, Mr. Ford believed, General Electric Co. for the power proportionately the same to-day station of the River Rouge plant Of the 30,000 workers, 618 were of the Ford Motor Co. The most under 20, 28,489 between 20 and striking feature of the unit is the 80, 84,280 between 30 and 40, reversion to the use of vertical troit River. This will deliver some be convicted of dangerous driving 20,620 between 40 and 50, 5,906 shafts which, originally introduced 000,000,000. U.S. gallons between 50 and 60, 680 between 60 by Curtis, were subsequently aban-hours. Engineering. and 70, and 20 over 70 years. Ac-doped for the horizontal pattern cording to Mr. Ford, the employ- which is more accessible and sim- ment department inade no distinc plines the problem of cooling the ROAD TRAFFIC BILL tion as to age, fitness for the job generator. In the present case, the being the only ·requirement." An floor-space" available was very ofer man was more likely to be restricted, and by the vertical ar placed on somewhat slower work rangement It has been found pos than a younger man; that was able to install the whole set on a |Bout the culy distinction in a floor space measuring 67 ft. 6 in. Ford factory. Younger man were in length bị, 23 ft in extreme expected to be faster than old men, į breadth. The overall height above! and as a rule that proved to be the floor level will be under 21 ft, and Case. Bome of the fastest men the output more than 4 kw. per handling certain types of light cubic foot of space occupied. The work were, however, about 50 years total weight of the machine will be of age.
some 900 tons,
An Objectionable Clause?
What the Motor regards as the worst feature of the Road Traffic BUI is the retention of the old reck less and dangerous driving clause practically as it appears in the old Act of 1908. In view of the greatly Increased penalties for offences. under the clause our contemporary
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