MOTOR NOTES.
NATIONAL EISTEDDFOD.
PROCLAMATION CEREMONY
AT LLANELLY.
Llanelly was en fete on the or "casion of the proclamation cere- mony in connection with the Royal Welsh National Eisteddfod for 1930. Flags and bunting lent s festive air to the scene, and the Druidic Circle overlooking Carmar then Bay was surrounded by thousands of people, virtually all Llanelly having taken a holiday in order-to join in the proceedings.
From the Town Hell the proces- Sion passed through the town, the Mayor (Alderman F. Willis Jones) being recompanied by members of the Corporation, representatives of Welsh societies and various spheres of public life.
During the Gorsedd proceedings a choir of 1,500 children, under Mr. W. G.
Williams, rendered Welsh airs. The Core Gwlad be- ing sounded by the veteran bands- man. Mr. Daniel, the Gorsedd ceremony began, under the presi- dency of Pedrog, the Archdruid (Rev. J. O. Williams, Liverpool).
The Druids' Prayer was given by Crwys: then followed the pre- sentation by Lady Howard Stepney, of the Cara Hirlais.. She was at- tended by Misses. Beti and Megan
Protheroe as maids of honour.
440-HOUR RECORD.
NEW ROOSEVELT. TRIALS.
THE HONG KONG DAILY PRESS
RECORD BREAKING TEST.
ROOSEVELT SEDAN'S FINE
PERFORMANCE.
The Marman-built Rosevelt straight-eight sedan which broke all automative non-stop endurance re The forces of nature overcame cords on the Indianapolis Motor the forces of man in sensational Speedway Wis stock In every fashion at the Indianapolis Motor mechanical detail and was complete- Speedway to bring to an end they equipped "ready for the road" longest non-stop endurance test in with two extra wire wheels, tires, the world's automotive history 440, hours and 40 minutes.
tubes and covers, shock absorbers, bumpers front and rear, and trunk rack.
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This remarkable record, never before approached on land or in The car alter being picked at the air, was accomplished by a Mar random from the final assembly line mon-built Roosevelt, picked at in the Marmon-Roosevelt factory by random from the assembly line in American Automobile Association the Marmion factory by American officials, was entered in the test Automobile Association represents tives, and run under the official equipped exactly is if it were to be observation of that body.
delivered to a purchaser who order- The finish of the test, after eighed a car with regular wire wheel teen days, eight hours and 40 minutes of continuous running, equipment. came at the zenith of one of the worst storms experienced in geari
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After the start of the test at 10
in central Indiasa. A sixty mile.m. June 1, the Roosevelt con- an Hour gale, axompained by tinued to circle the famous In- warning on the speedway carly in brick oval under its own power and cloudburst, descended with little dianapolis two and onehall, mile the evening of the nineteenth day of the test and, after demolishing at the end of two solid weeks or 338 Marmon pit headquarters, tearing hours of running was still running rools from grandstands and filling under the full supervision of the the track with debris, brought an AAA.
Every record for non-stop unwelcome end to the record-mak, ing run.
performance of automotive vehicles, including airplanes, had been safely passed shortly after the end of the frst week. All records are subject, of course, to verification of the A.A.A. Contest Board and the International Association of cognized Automobile Clubs, after the completion of the test.
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Vibration Eliminated.
WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 14, 1929.
WHERE LONDON IS SUPREME.
***In the December number of the tion, there appears an article on a American, journal," Bus Transparta- new centralised bus shop, devoted solely to maintenance work, bailt by the Philadelphia Rapid Transit Co., one of the largest bus com panies in the United States, operat- ing 870 busca. In this article the following facts are given:-
One-foor building with an area af 110,000 sq. ft.
Ground area of 10 acres. Present facilities for 1,000 buses
Possible expansion for 2,000 buses.
181 men employed. 600 complete bus overhauls n year.
The Americans seem very proud of this, but it is interesting how insignificant these figures are com pared with the following for the London General Omnibus Co. :- Chiswick overhaul worki of the
One-floor building with an area of 320,000 sq. E SHEN. Ground area of 33 acres." Present facilities for 4,500 buses.
Possible expansion for 5,500 buses.
2,000 men employed.
4,500 complete bus overhauls a year"-Bui and Coach.
car registrations in the United States practically doubled, rising from 10,303,000 to $1,317,000. In this six-year period the total pro- duction of cars in the country was 21,343,000, and the net exports ag- gregated about 1,850,000 cars. The difference, 19,384,000 cars, nearly double the number in service at the end of 1022, represents the num- Reber of cars put into service. Since the gain in registration in the six years was only 10,483,000 cars, 5,831,000 cars must have been aban doned or sold for scrap.
Torrents of Eain. Not only did torrents of rain obliterate the vision of the driver and his riding companion, but the velocity of the wind was so grea: that the car was awung sideways A bouquet of plasts, symbolical on the south turn of the famous of Gorsedd seasons, was presented - race course and continuance of the by Mrs. Frank J. Bees. She was run was made physically impossi attended by two pages, Masters ble. An entire building was picked
The engine in the car is a Peter Rees and William John.
up by the wind and placed in the &andard Roosevelt straight-eight There was pennillion singing by middle of the track, the air was with a piston displacement of 201.3 Miss Amy Thomas, and several filled with gasoline cans and flying cubic inches and a bore and stroke bardic addresses were delivered, debris, and the track was strewn of 2 x 41 inches, developing 70 Addresses of welcome were given with timbers and shattered sections horsepower at 3,200 revolutions per by the Mayor, the Rer. Hugh Jones, of fences and grandstands.
minute. The crankshaft main bear- and Mr. Frank J. Rees. The pro Shortly after the fury of the nga are five in number, each 2 clamation of the National Eistedd-storm subsided, Harmon officials inches in diameter, bronze back fod FAN then made by the and A. A. A. representatives visit with babbitt faced. The duplex' Archdruid. The chief competitions ed the speedway and, after survey down draught manifold, developed for Llanelly were also announced, ing the scene of destruction, agreed by Marmon engineers and standard and the report was submitted by to bring the test to its official con equipment as all Marmon built Beili Glas of those succesful in elusion. Immediately, the task of engines, was an important factor obtaining Gorsedd honours. The compiling official records was start
in the steady performance of the Marshal was Captain Geoffrey ed. The mark now held by the A. Crawshay, in gold helmet and Roosevelt is subject, of course, to
Elimination of torsional vibrasion- green cloak.
confirmation by the A. A. 4. and was assured throught the test by the also by the International, Associs high-frequency oscillation modula tion of Recognized Automobile or perfected by Thomas J. Litle Clutis before being declared official, Marmon chief engineer. The modulator likewise is standard on
Elfed (the Rev. Elvet Lewis, of London) who formerly held the Pastorate of Llanelly Chapel, paid tribute to Llanelly's fine record at the 1895 and 1903 National Eistedd-tions. foda.
In the evening a concert was held, at which the National Orchestra of Wales made its first appearance in <onnection with a National Eistedd- fod. The day's" proceedings "were favoured with fine weather.
GENERAL MOTORS AND WORLD · MÄRKET3..
COMPETITION NOT FEARED.
["D.P." Special Service.]
England, France, Germany, Italy aad Belgium na well as a few other countries of Europe, possess strong automotive industries fully capable of meeting the competition of American manufacturers of motor vehicles. Compared with the United Statee, England and the countries of continental Europe can absorb a very large number of automobile, trucks and buses to
used..
in the eyes of these two organize every Marmon-built engine. Stock The Roosevelt ear was entered in valves of the mushroom type, iden the teat June 12, after being taken tical with those in every Roosevelt directly from the Marmon factory engine manufactured, also were to the Indianapolis speedway where, each year, the manual 500 Springs and shock absorbers were inile race is held on Memorial Day of strictly stack construction and With little ceremony, it was started were not even specially adjusted for on its way. Pit headquarters had the unusually rough surface of the been established in the speedway speedway brick track. The gear irfield, timing devices made reads ration was standard for all Roose
velt" models-44 to 9-while the
in the judges stand and all pretransmission with three speeds for parations completed for the rub.
Real Non-Stop Test. Net once in the 440 hours and 40 minutes did the car or its engine stop. Refueling was done in mo tion from a "mother" car and oil and water likewise were added os the run. Represctatives of the AAA. stayed on the spot" record-making Roosevelt was under twenty-four hours each day and the
their constant observation.
ward and ore reverse was of the same type and construction as used in all Roosevelt cars. No special provisions fer cooling the engine were provided, a standard honey- comb type radiator being used together with a gear type pump and thermostat between the engine and radiator-all standard.
four-wheel, mechanical, self-ener
Brakes on the car were of the
gizing type. A standard three-unit. The last record to be broken by starting and lighting system was the Roosevelt was the sustained used with generator.. battery flight mark of the airplane Fort ignition. Worth-172 hours, 32 minutes and
1 second. This was accomplished
the car had been on the track in the afternoon of June 19, after | FATE OF OLD, MOTOR-CARS.
AMERICA.
after, each additional hour piled THE RATE OF SORAPPING IN up by the car was adding only the record it bad already made Two solid weeks brought the total to 308 hours, and the 400-hour mark was reached at 9 o'clock in the morning of June 29.
the economic benefit of the respec-slightly more than a week. There tive countries.
General Motors is engaged in the manufacture of care in England and Germany, the assembly of motor vehicles in England, Germany, Bel- gium, Denmark, Sweden, Poland, and in the warehousing of cars in France and Spain. These plante, even exclusive of Vauxhall and Opel, constitute the fifth largest industry in Europe, pay high wages to native labour, bay local mate. rials to the extent possible and in general make a real contribution to the economic wealth of the nations they serve.
General Motors in its world-wide operations is naturally ambitious to win for herself a larger share of the Kutomobile business of the world and as a step ia that direction contemplates the extension to the maximum, economically possible, of
When the run was completed, the airplane Fort Worth's record wu exceeded by 288 hours, or more than eleven days. The previous autome bile non-stop record, established during a coast-to-coast run in 1995, had been exceeded by 278 boura.
Two or three years ago the com- mon assumption was that'approxi mately 2,000,000 of the motor vehicles produced each year in the United States were destined for replacement purposes, and that the remainder might be considered as additions to the total number in service. This was equivalent to the scrapping of about 2,000,000 cars The car used in the test was
annually. Figures recently com stock Roosevelt sedan, standard in piled show that every mechanical detail and equipp scrapping of used cars is proceed at present thi ed ready for the road" with two ing at a considerably higher rate. extra wire wheel, tires, tubes and The estimate for 1927 is 2,367,000, corera, shock absorbers, bumper while that for 1928, which is not yet front and rear, and trunk rack,
its organizations in Europe. It before the transportation require must not be forgotten that an auto-ments of the nations of the world mobile, truck or, ha is simply az
are mot. The opportunities facing
completed, may reach 2,700,000. These figures replace the average of approximately 1,580,000 for 1994; 1925 and 1991, and a total of under 1,000,000 for 1923.
In calculating the number of cars
Tucans of transportation and that automobile manufacturers are tre scrapped in any year, the ear re every time another vehicle is put mendous.
gistrations of all the States com manufacturenbined at the end of that year, the
in use in a country, regardless of Most American
whether it is manufactured by Eng-will. welcome the competition of the production of cars in the year, and European producer in the overses the exports and imports are all
ah, German, Italian, French or American producer, that nation
marketa, of the world." Their salts taken into consideration. The dil- and all of its people are benefited.
and advertising activities will help ference between the total registro. The World's Markets.
nations appreciate more fully the tons of two successive years repre- The markets of the ∙ world are ecotomie benents of motor tras sente the groes gain în care în use. Popes to the manufacturers of port. An automobile manufacturer, The difference between the produc Europa da American manufacturers whether German English, Frendtion of a year and the net exports have 10 monopoly. The Italian in or Italian, ahould know no bound-represents very approximately the dustry, for example, has developed aries to his markets. European number of sew cars placed in ser, largely on the basis of ite export manufacturers can better meet, the vice in the year. The difference trade. More vehicles are shipped competition of American manufat between this last figure and the out of Italy than are consumed at turers by building superior can gain in registration will be the home Last year Italy sold more ! Experts look for continued economie | number scmpped, avg cars in France than did the United improvement in Europe and with it From December 31. 1922, to the States. It will be many more yeam is greater use of motor vehicles same date in 1928 the number of (Continued at foot of next column). United Press.
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