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IMPROVING CARS. Investigating Inventions
Further testimony to the inter- national character of the automobile was recently made available in a report of the new devices committee
showing that there are ex- amined An average of 6,000 new automotive devices a year, offered to the
committee for adoption OR General Motors cars by inventors from countries all over the world.
Tel. 28011.
similar idea, and it is sometimes difficult to persuade the person sub- mitting such ideas that the corpora-
BRITISH CARS.
THE
How Manufacturers Can Make Headway.
CHINA MAIL.
SMOOTH QUALITIES. Features New Willys Six.
ed the
"Of all the colonial and foreign "What doth it groft an auto- markets, it is probable that India mobile to be capable of great speed offers the most favourable oppor unless it rides smoothly?" This is tunity of any to British motor the way the Willys-Overland en- manufacturers. In spite of what gineers reasoned before they design- one hears to the contrary, the aver-designed a car capable of unusual new Willys Six. They age educated Indian stili follows the power and speed and they then set lead of the Briton in matters of out to make it as smooth-riding and western culture. If, then, the Bri- as comfortable as possible. The re-
sult is that the new tish manufacturer can persuade the combines speed and comfort to a Willys Six Briton in India to buy his cars, he new degree. will have made an appreciable ad- |
vance
on
"The Willys Six really brings a new conception of riding comfort at
towards capturing a large every speed, range. Not only is this
part of the Indian market. And in comfort and smoothness brought this, there
are gaverat factors about by the employment of Monroe strongly in his favour.
two-way hydraulic shock eliminators ino majority of Britons living in result of the construction of the oh all four wheels, but it is also the india visit Britain every few years chassals and the
loave. While there they buy the engine has been mounted.
manner in which British care, and consequently ac- quire a taste for the
"To-day speed is requisite in an British car, automobile," one with its greater comfort and handi- Overland executives 'polnts put in of the Willys- ness for the owner-driver. Having detailing the comfort features of the acquired this taste, one would expect car. them to purchase a British, rather automobile rides amoothly, unless it "But unless the modern than an American, car on their re-is so built that it absorbs to the turn to India. That they do not de maximum degree the jolts and jars so is due to the poor service offered of the road, high speed loses most there by the British manufacturer. of its advantages. Before the latter can hope to gain.
his share of the Indian market he new Willys Six. We have taken "We have built comfort into the must organise an efficient service!
advanced steps throughout the country. At present
to eliminate side- this is almost non-existent outside shock eliminators and built this sway, added excellent hydraulic the radius of Bombay and Calcutta, automobile so that even under trying as the following experience shows.
A Companion,,,
operating conditions, it is comfort. able and easy riding.
tion has not attempted to appro-
Two men, one with a popular
"Another feature of the new priate it instead of giving him British car, the other with Willys Six which is a major factor credit. For this resson the com- an equally popular American, in its smooth operation is the mittee is not vary wiling to consider both had the misfortune re-mounting of the engine. At each any idea or invention upon which cently to be involved in point of suspension; it is set in its owner has not at least obtained minor accidents which necessitated rubber which takes up any engine
car
of General Motors Corporation, the minimum of legal protection. the fitting of new radiators. The vibration which la usually trans- Should an Invention be one in owner of the American car tele-mitted to the frame and thence to which the corporation might be in-phoned the local agents, who had a the body. terested-the proportion of such in new radiator fitted and the
"If all highways were broad and ventions is very small indeed--the ready for the road again the next amooth, it would not be necessary to inventer is communicated with and,day.
add to the motor car so many com- before anything further ig Not so with the British car. The fort features. But the highways of done. an agreement is The lood of inventions, coming tered
en-nearest agents were in the capital to-day are not all broad and smooth. Into with the not only from those countries upon tor clearly setting forth
Inven- of the province, a good hundred There are poor roads, hundreds of the miles away. The owner immediate-miles of gravel roads and rocky the European and American con- terms upon which the corporation Hy wired to them to send a new roads and this new car will perform tinents where antomotive manufac will undertake its investigation and radiator and a competent mechanic on any of them. turing has seen its principal develop- the compensation it will pay the to fit it without delay. ment, but from many countries inventor in the event of its being He received an answer next day without automobile factories, has used.
regretting that the radiator would tens the day when the motor enc
Usually the Inventor focuses his have to be procured from the main may be truly considered a child of attention on some part of a mechan-agents in Bombay, but that they the world and not of any half dozen ism with which he is dissatisfied would send and fit it as soon as it countries as it was at its inception. and usually adds a part to correct arrived. In fact, the motor car at the present what he considers a faulty design.extreme north of India.) The car (This all happened in the time has a truly international char Rarely does he subtract something was not ready for the road again for acter, as is witnessed by the fact or simplify a part. If his invention three weeks! that the products of 23 countries go "works" he is generally sure that he into the manufacture of a Chevrolet. has discovered something greatly to Naturally, only a few of the 6,000 be desired but the fact that it
This is not an isolated case. Time devices which the General Motors "works" is not the only criterion of and again one hears the few owners committee examines annually, are its value. It must
of British cars in Northern India meet the de- found to be practicable, but the in- mands of production and sales and bemoaning the lack of service facili teresting point from the standpoint there is always a big difference be-ties for their cars after purchase. of the motorist is that the inventive tween "working" and being able to se never hears them complain of braing of the whole world are begin-capitalise it at a profit. His failure the performance of their cars com- ning to be focused upon the happy to take into account the demands of pared with that of American cars. task of providing him with an ever production and sales and economics better car. General Motors, in general, sometimes results in an said Mr. W.. .D. Hopson, unjustifiable waste of money and welcomes these contributions to au- labour on the part of the Inventor. tomotive advancement from what.. ever source and has set up definite organisation to fully and fairly con-
sider them when they are received A HELP TO LABOUR.
from inventore.
Motor Makers' Arrangement.
The new devices committee was organised as a central clearing house for all Inventions submitted direct to General Motors Corporation. In- stead of allowing a meritorious de-
An arrangement between General vice to drift by a devious route Motors, Limited, and Vauxhall through various channels, the now fotors, Limited, became effective in
devices.
it goes direct to the per-
Not Isolated Case.
The complaint is always of the ser- vice, and of its Inferiority to that which American firms have estab- lished.
Admittedly, the Americana have the advantage of a long start--the war years and those following when
they had no outside opposition to
compete against. But, on the other! hand, they were ploneers. They had to feel their way gradually, and it took them many years to build up their organisation to its present pitch of efficiency.
To-day the British firms can take advantage of the spadework done by committee ates that mall week under which all Chevrolet the Americans, and can aim direct
trucks to be marketed in Britain at establishing most concerned and with will be manufactured at the Vaux- equal or superior to that of their
an organisation. minimum amount of delay: hall Works, at Luton, Bedfordshire. rivals. Until they do so they will All kinds of devices are sub Hitherto componente for the trucks never make any appreciate headway mitted some of which are very have been made in America. This in the Indian market.-W. G. S. T. valuable and others that are not will mean the employment directly in the Autocar.
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technically or economically sound. and indirectly of some 3,000 to 4,000
In order that nothing of merit will British workers, with every pos be rejected without proper con- sibility of an increased number in sideration, a very minute inspection the near future. For the present Is given every device.
approximately 70 per cent of the The new devices committee is cost of a Chevrolet chassis will be mada up of British materials and
BRITISH TEST.
composed of three vice-presidents of labour, while the complete truck will 4,200 Miles Covered in!
16 Days.
General Motors Corporation, repre- be in all cases 75 per cent British. sentatives of the patent department, It is hoped that very shortly it will engineers from the research labora- become a 80 per cent. British pro- tories and manufacturing divisions duct, &
The most strenuous officially-: and an ongineering and clerical Mr. C. J. Bartlett, managing tempted was brought to a successful observed motor-cycle test ever at- staff. The committee has authority director of General Motors, Limited conclusion in the Isle of Man in to call upon any of the engineering stated: "Our step can be inter- mail week. The machine, British facilities of the corporation for 28-preted as a strong vote of confidence throughout, had been riden day and sistance. The personnel of the com-in the future of British Industry night for nearly sixteen days, and mittee is such that at least one or two of Its members are fully, ac British material employed will be exactly 60 Tourist Trophy races, had The approximate total value of a distance of 18,200 miles, equal to quainted with the subject matter of £2,000,000 a year, and the waycs at been completed.
Luton £500,000, while the total While negotiating ons of the
any invention submitted.
The corporation is interested in investments at Luton In-building, famous humpbacked bridges on the receiving ideas or suggestions relat ing in any way to the manufacture machinery etc., exceed £1,000,000.
or improvement of any of its various
products. The great majority of
devices submitted consist of articles
of devices which have been patented, or for which applications for patent are pending, or are proposed to be Bled, but frequently a device, artic or Idea is submitted, which is capable of any paten
thes
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REPAIRS
Isle of Man course, the na chine crashed into a car which emerged from a talde-road The machine was badly damaged, but re pairs sufficient to enable the test to be completed were effected ANT
The speed averaged was 34.8 miles per hour, in spite of the, fact that. the roads were covered with BDÓW. and ice more than half the timgor
timated that during the test
ted: 85,000 fewer than
corners and
700,000 feet 24 times the height of Mor
BUCC ful conclusion of the trial is reg led a
British motor engineering.
mph for
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