THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 6, 1930.
TRIP TO DEARBORN, the lobby of the administration the Administration building,
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121,000 Visitors in a Year.
In Washington tourists go to see the Capitol and the White House; in Buffalo they sit the Niagara Falls; in New Orleans they tour the French quarter; but in Detroit | they take a trip to Dearborn to see the Rouge Plants of the Ford Motor Company.
building and is taken in a bus to'
THE CHINA MAIL.
Because of the increasing number
the power house, where the regular of visitors, facilities are now being tour of the plants begin. The tour built to include the steel mills in covers two and a half miles and the regular tour. When they are ordinarily requires two hours, completed the visitors will be able The power house itself is one of to see how steel used in the Ford the most interesting points of the cars is formed into Ingots and to trip and one that calls forth.ex. follow the ingots as they pass while clamations of surprise from those hot through huge rollers that press going through the plants for the them into long bars ready, for the Though it burna manufacture into parts for the car. first, time. powdered coal, it is as spotlessly clean as the kitchen of a largo AN "AIRSHIP CAR.” hotel. The attendants in white uniforms might pass for hospital internes.
Last year, according to "officials -'of the company, 121,000 visitors from every State in the Union and most of the principal foreign coun From the power house; the party| tries visited the Ford establishment. continues to the foundry machine Many of them were college students shop and the foundry tool room, in engineering who attended inthence to the motor assembly where groups to study, the precision parts of the motors are put to- methods necessary hi mass produc-gether on a slowly moving conveyor, tion. Some of them were graduate and from there to the final assem- engineers interested in procssses bly, a long conveyor, on which piece, developed by Ford. But the great by piece the completed car is built *majority
tourists mes, without hurry; without loss, of-time women and children intent on and without confusion.. seeing at first hand the romantic atory behind the production of millions of motor, cars.
were
Sir Dennis Burney's Design.
I am able to publish to-day first details of a remarkable motor-car that is about to be placed on the market, writes Haroid Pemberton, Daily Express Motoring Correspon dent."
It is the creation of Sir Dennis Burney, designer of the airship R100, and in appearance it is rather like a miniature R100.
The tour ends with a trip through
Sir Dennis has applied the lessona the glass plant where glass for the Ford cars is mado in endless atrips learned in the building of the air- Visitors to the Ford plant area process developed by Ford en-ship, especially those relating to always welcome and a staff of Vineers and subsequently adopted wind resistance, to the construction" guides is maintained to escort them in the glass industry. And when of the car, with the result that, a to some of the principal points of the party leaves the glass plant he claims, interest and to explain the various still marveling at the way workmen operations. Every half hour durcat great sheets of glass. Int ing the day, with the exception of shapes and sizes required, It Ainda Saturday and Sunday, a party leaves the bus waiting to take it back to
Dodge Truck for Japanese Highway,
Construction.
Present day ranil construction of the most approved type is being enrried on in the various Prefectures of Japan with modern equipment only. The Highway Construction Department of Prefec- tural Government uses this one and one-half ton 150-inch wheel- base Dodge Brothers chassis, equipped with hydraulic-boist and dump body the Prefecture of Tochi ti.
GUIDE
BUYERS'
MOTOR CARS.
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ARMSTRONG SIDDELEY Hongkong Hotel Garage, Queen's'
Road. Tel. 24759.
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PUICK-The Dragon Meter Car Co. Ltd., 33, Wong Nel Chung
Road, Happy Valley. Tel. 80228.
CADILLAC Hongkong Hotel Garage, Queen's Road. Tel. 24759. CHEVROLET.-Hongkong Hotel Garage, Queen's Road. Tel.
94759.
FIAT MOTOR CARA Goeke & Co., China Bldg., 7th floor. - Tol. 22221. .
MARQUETTE-The Dragon Motor Car Co., Ltd., 33, Wong Nel
Chung Road, Happy Valley. Tel. 30228. - MORRIS.-Hongkong Hotel Garage, Queen's Road. Tól 24759. OLDSMOBILE The Dragon Motor Car Co., Ltd., 33, Wong Nei.
Chung Road, Happy Valley. Tel. 30228. ROLLS-ROYCE-Hongkong Hotel Garage, Queen's Road.
24759.
Tel.
Tol,
STUDEBAKER--Hongkong Hotel Garage, Queen's Road.
24769. WILLYS-KNIGHT & WHIPPET MOTOR CARS.-Gilman & Co.,
Ltd., 4, Des Voeux Rd. C. Tel 28011,
OUTBOARD MOTORS. Rudolf Wolff & Kew, 54 Queen's Road
C. Tel. 22178.
MOTOR. TRUCKS AND TRACTORS. CHEVROLET Hongkong Hotel Garage, Queen's Road.
24769."
Tel
G.M.C. The Dragon Motor Car Co., Ltd., B3, Wong Nei Chung.
Chung Road, Happy Valley. Tel. 30228.ES
DODGE South China Motor Car Co., 88, Des Voeur Road. C.
Tel. 25644 24
MORRIS-Hongkong Hotel Garage, Queen's Road. Tel. 24739, STUDEBAKER-Hongkong Hotel Garage, Queen's Road Tel. WILLYS KNIGHT & WHIPPET TRUCKS-Gilman & Co., Ltd;
48, Des Voeux Road C. Tel. 28011.
MOTOR CYCLES.
B.S.A The Sincere Co., Ltd., Des Voeur Road. Tel, £7767. NORTON The Blacere Co., Ltd., Des Voeux Road C. Tel
27767
MOTOR OILS.
Vacuum Oil Company, King's Bldg
(8,4.); Ltd. Asiatic Bldg.
GARGOYL SHELL
MO
AND
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the car adves petrol consumption
by 50 per cent. and saves 50, par cent of the horse-power required to propel an ordinary car on a level road; at high speeds it scarcely touches the ground,. with. a consequent saving in tyre wear: if a speed of 180 miles per hour could be reached the car would actually rise in the air owing to its stream-lining..
The pointed front of the car noses its way through air resist-, ance and sends.streams of air scurrying over the top of the air- ship-like body.
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The engine, a straight eight- cylinder, water-cooled unit of 22 h.p, is carried at the back of, the CAT, but the weight of the engine is distributed over a wide area and not on the back axle alone.
Each wheel of the car.is inde pendently sprung. The wheel may drop into a pot-hole, but as it has its own springing, this is a personai matter, for the wheel only i
was
I drove the car through the quiet lines of Berkshire. There abaolutely no engine sense, and without the feel of the engine all sense of speed avaa also lost.
No Road Shocks,
It was rather like handling an aeroplane before It leaves the ground one expected that it would rise in the air if a joy-stick were at hand.
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After a ride in the new Buick Eight
B-1
you'll understand why so many thousands of owners have bought Buicks with utmost confidence for twenty-five years!
In addition to Buick's stylish appearance and the luxurious comfort the new Buicks develop better than 80 miles an hour- faster. acceleration and that sepnomy in fuel, oil and maintenance which has always been characteristic of Buick.
Why not let us take you for a free demonstration ride to-day ? *
HOW MANY MILES?
In nearly every instance when a In the back scats it was rather car is changing hands the prospec like riding in a hammock. No roadable interest as to the mileage the tive purchaser displays consider shocks whatever were felt, and even when a humpbacked bridge was taken at seventy miles an hour the passengers were not shaken.
machine has covered. Apart al- together from any motive of dis- honesty, it is often extremely diffi- ! The few other drivers met with cult for the selfer to determine with on this journey simply gaped when any degree of accuracy how many miles the car has dove, for the they saw the strange vehicle ap- proach. One woman. driver took reason that many manufacturers-ft fright, hurriedly jammed on her speedometer which registers only brakes, and pulled into the side oto 9,999.9 miles, and then repeats
the road.
the process. As the vehicle passes to successive owners, the records become forgotten.
many of their
Continental, con- freres provide instruments that give a total reading up to 99,999.9 not be miles figure adequate for the normal lives of most machines In the average user's hands. If the question of coat is involved it, may well be that some owners--though by no means all-would prefer to farge the trip" portion of the in strument in favour of a more.com- prehensive total-recorder.
The factor of miles covered may- a satisfactory means of arbitrarily deciding whether, or not. a given car is worth buying, but the information, at all events, stands for a good deal, above and beyond its interest. It seems that British manufacturers in particular cling to the type of fnstrument re- cording only to ten thousand miles, While most of their American, and
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Buick
The
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The Eights with Buick's Prestige
THE DRAGON MOTOR CAR CO., LTD.
Telephone 30228.
WONG NEI CHUNG ROAD, HAPPY VALLEY.
DODGE MONO-PIECE
STEEL BODIES
The Mono-Piece Steel Bodies on the Dodge Six and Eight-ins Line are immune to tropical
so that neither salt air, mols-
ture, nor high temperatures can harm it.
Semi-tropical weather DodgeMono-Piece SteelBodies,
conditions.
There is no wood in the Mono- Piece Body shell. Its sections are welded into virtually a single piece of steel-rattle- proof,- squeakproof and
like Dodge internal hydraulic brakes and the many other evi- dances of advanced engineer- ing, join together with Dodge dependability and sound qual- ity to make Dodge values of
strang especially treated today the greatest in his
DODGE BROTHERS SIXES AND EIGHTS
SOUTH CHINA MOTOR CAR CO
Tel. 25644
Des Voeux Road Central.