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THE CHINA MAIL.
THURSDAY, APRIL 30, 1931.
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Car That Opens the Garage.
FORD PLANTS.
Story of a Great Undertaking.
The time le coming when motor- In connecting the Rouge Plant ists will have little else to do but to and the old channel of the Rouge steer their cars. Alrendy auto River it was necessary that the Imatic gear changing is an accom- tunnel pass under main high- plished feat. The latest develop ways, street ear tracks, rail- ment is a car that automatically ronds, bridges, ♫ creok and opens the garage doors without the a cemetery. One of the most driver leaving the seat.
dimèult tasks WBS that of
I was privileged to witness a test excavating, or, as it is termed. | with such a car, says the motoring "pushing the shield" under Baby correspondent of the Morning Post. Creek at a point which is crossed It was a saloon fitted with a special by a railroad bridge and where also dashboard wireless set which trans-a large sewer is under construction mitted a signal' that caused the by the city of Detroit. garage doors to open by the driver simply pulling a knob.
The pilea that provide the founda-
tion for the bridges and those
Its owner drove me up the drive driven by the company constructing of his house with the car facing the the sower formed a network on each garage. He pulled a knob on the dashboard and the doors opened. We drove in, and he pulled the knob, and the doors shut behind us.
Another Fent.
By this superfine accessory to the modern automobile does even more than this.
side of the creek. it was the task of the Ford engineers to burrow under the creek, sewer and bridge, going between the piles without atriking or weakening them. This was accomplished.
In beginning the tunnel the en- gineers, sank a shaft sixty feet When the car's lamps were light- straight down into the earth. They ed the invisible signal from the then began excavating the tunnel on dashboard not only caused the doors a horizontal level. The boring is to open,
but also turned on the nccomplished by means of a shield lights in the garage itself, and a large steel cylinder fourteen when the doors were closed one feet long and twenty-one feet In could extinguish the garage lights, natside diameter with a solid steel from the car.
shell or skin two and a fourth Inches There are three parts
in this thick. This shield has a bulkhead clever device. A tiny transmitting) which is made fast near the front set installed in the car, the receiv-end. There are four openings ing set mounted within the garage, through which the mud streams, and the door operating -mechanism, like toothpaste from a tube as the One can fix a special code for shield is shoved forward by twenty signals sent by the transmitter so powerful hydraulic jacks. that the car practically carries its own key to the garage. The elec- tric current from the battery is no greater than required for lighting the side lampe, so consumption is small.
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Great Cement Block.
As the mud is oozed through the shield openings, It is loaded into little care that are drawn to the shaft by an electric engine and sent to the surface. In turn these cars) haul great cement blocks each weighing 3,420 pounds, to the head of the tunnel.
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When the shield has been pushed: forward sufficiently, these blocks which nre two end
half feet wide and five feet long. are set to form R ring around the circumference of the tunnel. There are ten blocks to a ring with one of them acting as a keystone so that the lining of con crete, which is eighteen inches thick, withstands the pressure of the earth.
Industrial Community A Complete City."
Upper left-One of the many trains that operate over the "municipal railway" of "Dodge City." Upper right The completely equipped Dodge Brothers school room, where a regularly constituted Director of Education presides. Left centre-No municipal department is any more thoroughly or- ganised than the police force of this factory settlement. Right centre-The "Health Departmunt" guards the physical welfare of its citizens closely. Minor cuts, scratches and bruises are given immediate attention in the main hospital shown above and in six branch units. Lower left-The Post Office, where approximately 7,500 pieces of incoming and 12,600 pieces of outgoing first class mail are handled daily. Lower right-The cafeteria, where hundreds of the citizens of the "city within a city" are served every day. In addition to the cafeteria 32 lunch waggons are operat ed throughout the factory buildings.
When one ring of blocks has been A water tunnel, said to be the set in place, the shield pushes for largest ever built to serve the needs ward again until gullkfent progress of a single industrial concern, is has been made to permit the in-nearing completion at the Rouge sertion of another ring. On an Plant of the Ford Motor Company average, an hour and a half is re-at Dearborn, Mich. It is 2.2. miles. quired to complete one shove for- long, fifteen feet in diameter inside, ward and a half an hour to set up and will have a daily capacity of a ring of the cement blocks, Occa- nearly a billion gallons-four times sionally, however, it is necessary to the amount of water consumed by take down a part of the bulkhead the City of Detroit through the to remove boulders which are in the Department of Water Supply. The line of progresa.
230 Blocks a Day.
MOST COSTLY CAR.
Owned by the Shah of
Persia.
MOBILOIL LUBRICATED.
tunnel, which will be put into It is interesting to know that the described as the most operation early next year, will con- motorcar
has recently into the possession of its
The concrete blocks are formed at nect the power house of the Rouge costly in the world the rate of 230 a day in a material Plant and the old channel of the come plant that saw service in the manu-Rouge river just off West Jefferson owner. The "most costly" car is a facture of shells during the war. Avenue. Hand in hand with its bejewelled Pierce-Arrow, designed car for public cere- They are made of cement manufac-construction, the power house is as a parade
the order of His Im- tured by the Ford Motor Company being enlarged so that it will have monies, to out of slag from the plant blast four times the teaming capacity it perial Majesty Riza Khan, Shah of furnaces.
had when erected a little more than Persia. After the blocks have been set in ten years ago. The remodelling of place within the tunnel, steel forms the power plant in itself is said to are set up and filled with concrete be the largest project of its kind to form a solid inner lining. This ever undertaken without interfer- lining also is eighteen inches thick ing with production.
so that the crcumference
re- Al-
Regal in appearance, the style of the Shah's new Pierce-Arrow sembles that of a Town Car. though of unusually liberal dimen. sions, it low-hung and graceful.
The chassis of the car is of
of the Construction of the water tunnel circle is composed of a three-foot was commenced in August, 1929, standard Pierce-Arrow manufacture. section of concrete. The surface when the first shaft was sunk about The coachwork, however, represents of Dix Avenue. the ultimate in luxury. Of spotless being smooth, will offer the least 500 feet south resistance to the free flow of the Since then workmen have been white, the exterior is richly relieved water.
boring their way in four sections by stripings of gold and by the Some idea of the tunnel and of sixty feet below the level of the gold-plated metal work. Emblazon. the tremendous quantities of water earth, sending the excavated mud toed on each door is the golden bas, consumed in the Ford planes may the surface and lining the tube with relief replica of the Persian crown, be gained by comparing its capacity concrete blocks as the head is push mounted with a green jewel.
The interior is upholstered in a with the water consumption of somejed forward. Eventually one section of the larger cities.
will connect with the intake, one light champagne coloured silk rep, At present the Rouge Plant is with the power house, and two embroidered with wreaths, a family consuming half a billion gallons of sections will meet near Fort Street. insignia. It is piped water a day, not Including that So exacting are the engineering, leather and edged with gold. The brought from the City of Detroit specifications that, the connections wood trim is inlaid satin wood. The than a small silk window curtains are finished in for drinking and other purposes. will not vary more The new tunnel will have a normal fraction of an inch. capacity by gravity fead of 913,- 600,000 gallons per day, or 333,464,- 000,000 gallons a year.
Useful Comparison..
GENERAL MOTORS
Shows Big Drop in Earnings.
New York, April 28.
with white
a figured design. The luxurious cushion le tailored in one expanse
SINCERE'S
MOTOR
CYCLE
DEPT.
REMOVED
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PRAYA
SIDE
OF
The Building
(Ground Floor).
MAHARAJA'S NEW CAR.
One of the most ornate motor
of cloth, as the Shab rides alone. curs over built has just been ship- On the floor is a rug of Russian ped from Britain to India for the Maharaja of Patiala, for use on wolfhound for, Imported especially hunting expeditions.
for the car. A cigarette case and
The equipment includes win- lighter, encrusted with diamonde, is dows constructed to prevent within easy reach of the royal people from seeing in, though the.
paasenger.
In the fiscal year, 1929, the city of Detroit consumed 80.888,341,000|| gallons to quench its thirat, flush its streets, sprinkle its lawns, do its
occupants can see out, a sliver manufacturing, accomplish its cook-
The chauffeur's compartment also washbowi, silken damask curtains, Ing and put out its fires. Cincin- General Motors earnings for the reveals a lavish use of gold plate, and a 225,000 candlepower search- natf required 20,511,000,000 gallons: first quarter of 1981 were only a the steering column, the instrument light throwing a beam a thousand Washington, DC. 26,851,000,000 little better than half of the carn- mountings and the control levers all yards. Also solid silver, created gallons: and Philadelphia 122,590,-ings for the corresponding quarter being finished with the precious cutlery and old English china 000,000 gallons. It will be seen, in 1980, according to a report made metal. therefore, that the new Ford tunnel to-day
MAR 15 Mobiloil is used for the lubrica The car is mounted on an could supply the water consumed For the quarter Just closed net tion of the Pierce-Arrow and also A.E.C. chassis and contains a through the water departments of earnings amounted to 128,919,000, for the lubrication of the Rolls gunrack, a tank specially con- all those cities put together and as compared with $44,968,000 in the Royce which the Shah ancs for structed to carry, los, an 18-gal- still have some eighty billion gallons first quarter of 1980. United journeys not of ceremonial char lon fresh water tank and a dining
acter.
table.
to epare.
Press
ware.