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13
BIG GAME HUNTS
With Car, Lasso, and Camera
WELDING :
Remarkable Method of
Manufacture
Among those whose knowledge of Motor car, lasso and camera in Ford methods is derived from placa of high-powered riftes are articles in the Press and magazines, coming into style as the popular it is often imagined that the out- diversion in staging big game hunta standing point of interest in' Ford: in Australia, according to C. S. factories is production in very large: Fletcher, Studebaker representative, number due to the elimination of That this form of hunting is waste motion and to the use of the vastly more exciting and more most modern machines, tools and sportsmanlike -is pointed out in a fixtures and manufacturing methoda letter from Mr. Fletcher, since the that unlimited resources and years | new form of hunt calls for release of conscientious effort have been of the quarry uninjured after the able to produce. eatch. He describes the леж The company, however, never de- fashion in hunting as follows:
pends upon accelerated individual "The scene of the hunt was thirty effort for its production. To the or forty miles outside the city of trained observer a production of Leeton right in the middle of the over 9,000 cars and trucks a day, bush. For equipment we had two averaging 2,000,000 finished jobs a Erskine cars, a Sedan and a Tourer, year, is less remarkable than the a laase and a camera to record the smooth unhurried precfalon with success of the day.
which it is done. Ono never notices any confusion in a Ford factory. Many new processes are employed, some of them epochal of their kind, and these given the new Ford the remarkable combination of quality and strength that have aroused so much world comment.
"After scouring the countryside for a couple of hours, we apled four emus. We singled out one and the chase was On in carnest. It scampered around through the undergrowth and over rough ground that forced us to travel between thirty-five and forty miles an hour, Finally the bird seemed satisfied that it could outrun the car and started across the plain. The going was horribly rough but by virtue of the absence of trees, the Erskine managed to gain rapidly.
A Wonder Tale
A very striking example of this "difference" in Ford methods pro- vides the subject of this article. The age-old task of welding, first practised by the blacksmith, has been developed in a way that can justly be claimed to provide a won- The Humiliated Emu
der tale of modern industry, In of the new Ford, "Capture was effected by "Texae' the production Jack, who rode the running board welding has been turned into the of the careening car and tossed a keystone of a new manufacturing lasso over the bird's head. The method, and the Ford works have problem then arose of standing been transformed into the world's behind the emu while photographic greatest welding laboratories. evidence was taken. Emus are far
The practical result of this more talented in kicking than the achievement is that forgings and toughest mule. Unlike the mule, stampings can be united into in- however, they kick forward instead tegral parts of strength, lightness of backwards and it must be ad- and beauty at a speed unequalled mitted that they are very accurate hitherto. The important outcome is shots. With the picture made, the a motor-car in which no castings except in the cylinder humiliated, but uninjured emu was are used
block, which like other cylinder released."
blocks, Is made of cast iron.
Next on the programme was a kangaroo chase. After hours of cruising the hunters Anally caught sight of a big fellow who seemed to offer everything that might be wished for in a specimen.
Welding in the Ford factories is the transformation of two pieces of metal into one solld plece. In order to apply welding so extensively and efficiently to the new Ford car, it "We anticipated no trouble in was necessary to adopt methods that landing him," Mr. Fletcher con- would seem almost revolutionary in instances tinues, "but he led us a very merry some plants. In many fifteen-mile chase before finally machines had to be designed that being captured. Although not class were radically different from any in el
and fixtures the existence, and tools ferocious animal, 38 A kangaroo nevertheless has powerful never before heard of were made.
Perfect Results Secured His forefeet weapons of defence.
The results, however, have more are equipped with long and extreme.
The.. ly sharp claws. With these he can than Justified expectations. grasp a dog.or man in a vice-like process has helped to make the new grip and rip and tear most de car.at the same time one of the vastatingly with teeth and hind most economical and sturdiest ever!.. clawa, while sitting on his strong manufactured, tall.
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ROAD-RACING
Wash Speed Course Proposals
SCHEME OUTLINED
The proposals for the ambitious
From these details It will be ciation. He estimated that two seen that the project is extreme thousand men would be employed ly ambitious. Actually, an expen if the scheme were carried out, diture of at least £300,000 has and that the work would take been suggested as being neces-about two years. sary, and it may well prove ex- Captain Malcolm Campbell sald tremely difficult to obtain so large. he had been searching all over a aum. But, apart from revenue the country for a suitable speed derived from racing and record track and he was satisfied that the one proposed would fulfil all and motor boats, there is the land requirements. reclaimed, and it is also propos be the mest ideal track
Ia fact, it would in the ed that the track should, form a
world, and make the Lincolnshire toll road between Skegness and district the Mecca for all speed Capt. Campbell said he Boston. At present the road be events. tween these towns is tortuous in was convinced of the practicabl the extreme.
lity of the scheme.
"One method of attack consisted a remarkable way the enormous scheme for building a vast speed-breaking by cars, motor cycles, of seizing the great tail and lifting strength of the metal at the point
on the foreshore between
It off the ground, whereupon the welded-proving, in fact, that the way kangaroo was off balance and prac-point of weld is the strongest of all. Boston and Skegness have been tically helpless. Even Bo, holding The new Ford Model "A" chassis taken a stage farther, and the the tall is no job for a weakling and has over 150 forgings, 390 electric getting behind him to seize the tall no mean feat.
"The hunt continued and before the end of the day our bag conslated The whole car, in fact, may be of five grown kangaroos, four baby described as a welding design, and kangaroos, one emu, one engle, five this affords one of the outstanding ducks and one of the largest speci- reasons for its strength, beauty, available for attempts on short- mens of our most deadly snake-lightness and speed. the black snake. The last named,
butt welding and 800 spot welding sponsors, the newly-formed Auto operations. 90 per cent, of all its mobile Racing Association, have steel parts are forgings.
high hopes of bringing the project to fruition.
Since Brooklands is no longer
distance records, owing to an In-
definite need for a auitable track
incidentally, W28 not given the MOTOR-CAR CARRIERternational ban, there is a very
courtesy of release accorded our other captives.
"It might be mentioned that the Freight Steamer Fitted in Britain. hunt was so eminently successful,"
he concluded, "that one of the party
A CITY OF CONTRASTS
With Lifts
to the lower decks.
behond the most primeval bullock decks constructed, and also a new
A Fifteen-Mule Course
Ideal Testing Ground Captain W. Barnato, another
there was.
The foreshore is at the moment controlled by the Board of Trade, the Duchy by Lancaster, and the Commissioners of Crown Lande,director of the Association, sald and it is understood that these
no place at present bodies will be willing to meet the where car manufacturers could Automobile Racing Association in test out their products, and from the matter so long as the rights that point of view the project was a very desirable one. To those of local residents are not violat.
who might say, "What was the ed.
use of a racing track?" he would official enquiry into the proposals by the Board reply that it helped towards what of Trade and the. Ministry of he described as road worthiness. Agriculture.
There was an
- A considerable amount of addi- tlanal evidence was given in aup part of the scheme, amongst others by the Clerk to the Hol land (Lincolnshire) County Coun Hell, the Mayor of Beston, who spoke for the Borough Council, and the chairman of the Skegness Urban District Council, all of when spoke of the benefits which would accrue.
MR. F. W. Dennis, a well-known Lincolnshire agriculturist, raised the question of whether, in con- construction action with the be attracted, and in that way work, agricultural labourers would
agriculture might suffer..
Mr. J.H. Hutchinson, a member
At present British motor cycle posted a $250 challenge with a The Tyre Dock Engineering Co. riders who wish to attack flying Leeton newspaper to any other party have accomplished an Interesting kilometre or flying mile · records
The Board of Trade Inquiry of similar size duplicating the feat job in converting the Dovenden, have to visit Arpajon, in France, Mr. G. G. L. Du Cann, barris with any other make of car than formerly the Howick Hall, into. a Erskine or Studebaker."
transporter for carrying cargoes of and to add to the difficulties there ter, of London, who appeared on assembled motor-cars, with elevators | is 'only. one Arpajon meeting a ing, outlined the scheme.
behalf of the Association promot to carry the cars from the upper year. For car drivers the post-sald the arch was approximately "Tho vessel, which has a gross tion is worse stil, since speeds fifteen miles in length, with an tonnage of 5,096, WŁA built at have become so high that for at average width of three-quarters of a mile. The mala speedway Glasgow In 1910, for the tempts on the world's maximum would be from twelve to fifteen "Bangkok, the capital of Slám, Is United Statos Steel Products speed record only such places as miles long and a city of amazing contrasts,” writes Co., and. her. conversion
200 yards wide. a straight line, Major C. Lestock Roid in the Febru-understood to be the first job of Its Daytona Beach, Florida, or Ver- It would be in ary Wide World Magazine. "In its kind ever done on the Tyne. The neuk Pan, in Africa, are of use. and perfectly flat; both sides crowded, brilliant coloured streets, Dovenden, now owned by Messers. The first proposal of the Auto would he fenced with concrete the latest Rolls-Royce crawls along McAllum and Co., is hating extra mobile Racing Association is would be a roadway 100 it wide, posts" and wire. Down the centre
cart, and police and soldiers in ultra-wooden deck about nine feet below therefore, to build a straight with return loop road about five modern and very Germanke the main deck in Nos. 1, 2 and 8 course of 15 miles; this is to be miles long and 80 ft. wide, Ac. uniforms (save for the Royal holds. The old, cargo doora at the
ed at suitable intervals by means Guard) rub shoulders with civilians side of the ship have been removed at least 100 feet wide, absolute-cess to the sea would be provid- clad in the most primitive of East- and six large openings have been ly flat, and to be surfaced with a of gateways.
mado, while six special watertight non-skid material.
Along four miles of the speed, would be A spectator's *You can take a taxi and and it doors are being fitted, scheme goes farther than this, and way a much better and more powerful These doors will open on a level it is now proposed that there stand 6 ft wide, which would
in. the. form of car than these that ply for hire In with the upper deck, and in the shall be a racing circuit as well be London or Paria; but the drivers are hatchways steel frame elevators of This T.T. track, is to include part raised platform, partially roofed so incredibly ignorant that they the trellis type are being installed. of the main track, and be comin. The track would be protect have to be directed street by street, Two, portable elevators are also depleted by a loop road 45 ft. wide ed from the tide by a huge sea even if your destination is the Royal fug provided. Fitted with all the end eight miles in length. Var! wall. The racing tracks available. Palace itself safety devices, and to meet the 're-ops benda and corners will form did not provide scientific data
"If you don't care for a taxt you quirements of the Factory Act, the part of the loops, so that true road and the present one would supply can have a rikisha-probably the lifts will travel from the upper deck conditions are obtained.
that deficiency; and meet all re earllest form of wheeled transport to the lower decks, and facilitate Other plans include the build quirements
and direct the coolle (always pre- the conveyance of motor cars from ing of a motor-bost waterway a The local authorities, and pri suming you know the way yourse the cargo doors down to the storage mile in length, a grandstand four vate owners who had put forward
quarters, and vice versa.
wiler, long, to be situated along objections had not done so in op the middle section of the course, position to the scheme, but to and an aerodrome. Roughly, preserve their rights on the fore 10,000 acres of the
will be shore in the matter of drainage reclaimed La
and so on. The Association. lieved they would be able to m from those objections, satisfactori
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of a big engineering firm, who gave evidence ar to the roads, said: he did not think agriculture would suffer, in the way mention- The mon required for the work would be unskilled, and the contractors would also bring along with them a large body of men; and there nead be no fears for agriculture,
The view of the Board was that by electing to proceed on a non- statutory basis, the Association must come to terms with the people affded the scheme. If they were able to do so the Board would have to get into con- sultation with the Ministry of the outstanding objections, would Agriculture to consider whether
prevent the Board from giving consent. If there was any doubt the promoters would be told, they must go to Parliament in order to obtain powers to carry the thing through. There was really no serious opposition; and the In spector will report in due course.