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THE CHINA MAIL, SATURDAY, DECEMBER 24, 1949.
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A PEOPLE'S MOTORCAR
By Shown O'Leary
There is desperate naed in Australia for a sturdy family car within reach of the people's' pockets. In that country,” whérg public utility transport is Inadequate and where motorists, unlike those overseas, may 'drive for 365 days a year, owner- ship of such a vehicle is virtually a necessity.
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Bot, emphatically, the car must stall cheaply to be a real pouple's Mtatistics on income reveal that the majority of adul! Aus- Sesilane varn a personaj caution meme of £600 annually or loss, Obrumsly for most thene a car
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This taxi scooter, with room for a driver and two pastangere, whe on view at the 27th International Cycle Show in Milan, Italy. It is called the "Innocent."-AP Photo.
ride on the worst of surfaces; a Hipnom College, where emphasis in point which Australian motorists ink on the preparation of pupila will respect. Its petrol consump¦ for medicino. tlon has been proven at nearly do Young Laurence, though, had bent lay in the direction of en- gineering and that was the path he intended to take. Being .... d. | Hartnett, he won 1LA way and
took it
but is the question while tho price range is in high.
Even those families who to-day can scrape up enough to buy a von by means of a tarpaulin mur- fer find that the cost of its opera-miles per gallon and its top speed | a word Bay for himself. His tail slinust massneran the family Invigo
Aurtradion working people need a ear, the price of which will not mvarepliedad y rain the family fur- which con to operated
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tunning. depreciation, inser of Ẩn week. Do cause of rationing, It must be light in petrol consumption while Fill tanishining a high standard
of service,
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In the United States the aver Bww worker owns a rar which it Likes ham the value of $20 hours' to buy. it takes 3,320 bones of the average Australian V. Age earner's working time to be come th; owner of even a relà. tively small car at present-day
folives.
in 10 miles an hour-which, you will admit, is more than what any good driver should ever require, The cur can be garaged alongside the smallest home
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Between
1934
ture in Sweden. al 1999 tieneral Motors sold 40 per cent of all the vehicles bought in Australia Vauxhall, and B.d- fords alone accounted for more the annust than 30 per cent. us sales of English vehicles.
He became a foundation dires- tor of the Commonwealth Aircraft. opened Fishermen's Bend to in- distry.
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During the war Hartnett was Director of Ordzaner Production. He saw to it that guns and Bren carriers. marchlights, torpedoes and optical instruments were pro- dueet and, in fart, handled 1,600 projects which cost £100,000,000 in production,
During a trip aguund the world. In 1914 he became student in 1947-48 Hartnett mude an in- apprentice in the Vickers arma tennive search for a design munt factory. He started work designer to answer the specifica- at nix o'clock in the morning. tion of what Australians word worked until nine o'clock at night. | Australian conditions needed. There was no time off for such The hout took him through Italy; | foolish things at week-ends or France, Germany, England and | public holidays. America before he settled on a He stuck those conditions for designs by Joan Albert Gregoire, three years, but at the end of that un internationally-known nutanse- time there wasn't much bu didn't He retired from General Motors bile design engineer. The proto-know type car Gregoire produced, which rifles, through is nor Avatralin. has been thong newfangled things thoroughly subjected to rigorous aeroplanes in which men few and
from which they killed. tents.
from in 1947 and now, from his effiers about armaments,
machine-guns toin Collins Strret, Melbourne, plans called production of the people's var nx the next item on the astonishing agenda of his life,
It
He was with the Royal Naval
Away from busines, he lives in beautiful white two-storeyed į
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Air Service first, then with the of artnett's career. It Get The “GENERAL” Idea-
Royal Flying Corps and finally and there, of with the Royal Air Force. He the now venture on which he i saw active service with a squadron working may be its crowning cul-
mination. of night bombers.
He wasn't exactly a wealthy A man saturated In the Intrica-
Acles of big business, a young man on his discharge.
The history car manufacture By 1917 Hartnett held an Inter- The people's car Mr. E. J. Hart-
shown that, in the case of almost national Pilot's liçenco and met leading Australian Industri.
overy famous make, a slagle man men were still shooting, flying and jatest, plans to produce seems the hom beon
for responsible
the killing at the time he became a aris ver, if clans for it are borne auccess of the undertaking.
brand new engineer, he enlisted as William A forecast is that is will be
Morris [HOW jout
Lord a Ber on ble envergence from Vic- began atrene, expacious, light, cheap to Nattield)
amali kers. with tor and that the cost of its pur bicycle shop near Oxford. Later elane will halve the figures of the he branched into the car business, paragraph above. It is estimated Imported his engines from Aaneri that it would take ant more than ea and purchased his components for the Best Chur or five years of 1.760 hours work to buy it.
Naturally full details of the his new venture. The cars he vehicle are still a close secret, but makes have now been driven in it in possible to reveal that it is practically every country of the, azmall four-senter closed mudel,
world. the low weight of which gives ex-
Herbert Asalin Whe finoralitury "power-to-weight ratio. driving force who created the Walter It has a front-wheel drive and all | Austin Motur Company. wheels are of independent suspen P. Chrysler, an engineer from the Buick Motor Company, created Toe munner of its springing, it Chrysler cars and the company's is claimed, assures a comfortable organisation. The mont
outstanding of them all, of course, was Henry Ford, who met iron opposition in found ing the business which had such a strong effect on the development of Industrini Amerien.
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Ա the count of his capital showed that amazing record in
ho was the sole owner of 900 manufacture, one whom two Gov. He increased this dum to £1,500 ernments could confidently trust and with it opened the Walling with the expenditure of £100,- ton Motor Company in Croydon, 000,000 in time of war, he could Business boomed proituce that cheap family chariot for which the Australian working- class faniity is desperate.
When Honry Ford started with hin firet jvvor practically every expert, automobile chrineer and financier hooted the specifica tion. The derision'continued to the extent that humorous storiva
Business boomed from, the be- ginning. Hartaott took nino other RAF lads to work with him and in no time ubsidiary branches were sprouting all over the place. By the time he was 3 Hart nett was worth £15,000. By the time he was 24 ho wasn't. In those 12 months the car market had cascaded and carried his for- tuno away with it.
about Fords finally contributed to AUD ̧
making the car the most popular In the world.
With the shutters up on the Motor Company. wont to Malnya, once more to sell cars. Oply this time he went as the emploges of a well- crtablished East India firm which wanted the Malayan end of its A cheap car for the people issiness organised. not a laughing matter; it{a}||
A necessity
His typical thoroughness com- serious necesalty. And it may voted him to learn the languag
the companion cf potentates, he old cars right and he sold them left and, with one grim lesson behind him, he learned to know
is markets.
be that Laurence Johns Harsh store his arrival. Ho becanio OBE, MIE, with his 30 years world-wide experience in mold manufacture, will become the op posito number of the Henry Ford Sir Harbort Austin whom Australia country needs.
What kind of man is this Hart nett who claps he can produce
or
Hartnett's later life was to lead him from success to BUCCOKA From Malaya he returned to Ent
n car to fit Australia's economy land, then crossed to New York.
Although his name is a by-word
in Australia Industry, his 1f
While there he was asked to yo
story has, naturally, not péréolato Sweden to open a new assembly
plant for General Motors.
could
tad as public property. Bat it is
"That was 'something ho not hard to remedy that and give really get his tooth into. With a you a thumbnall profile of him man named Mougey to
raised Hon portly Trimdoulsto
local labour and built General Englishma who turned ·41 „,'n'
Motors Nordiska. In the first, ago Hir:con- cantration is, codt, mil has a year, during which they had bud
geted for a sale of 9.000 units.. facility for looping etraight to the they sold 16,000 unite in Finland essential points of matter, and and Sweden
ho has the alt of, confidence of a
Hartnett had joined General mah: who knows he can zohievo Motors in 1026. In 1981 ho bez with the succond be his ovidenced me director of: Vauxhall all hie life.
Although he confesses his birth-Motora Limited and saw the small plach as Working, in Surrey, ho Vauxhall car and Bedford truck introduced. In 1985 he visited: has been in Australia for 15 years Bassin, at the Invitation of its had now describen himself as a Government and with the endorse Fanatical Australian,,"
or
The shaping of Hartnett's early ment of the British Government, training was originally towards to report on the car industry then medicine. His father was a pro being established in the USSR. minent Harley Street lung spre couro, he sold the Russians
Bedford tracks. alist why died when his son was a year old and left the boy's Success repeated future in the hands af, his motherHartnett, came to Australia In and uncles.
Batween them they decided his Motors business
baroer for him, and sang him to the astonish se succes of his von
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