THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, MOTORING SUPPLEMENT.
FORD BUILDS "PULLMAN OF THE AIR.”
Detrolt, June 7th-Henry Ford, who reduced automobiles to their lowest common, denominator "and filled the American countryside with 15,000,000 of them at bargain- counter prices, is going to follow a diametrically opposite course with his airplanes.
He is not going to build any "alr flivvers." He is not going to go in for quantity production of small planes at low prices. The plane. that interests him is the big plane, the expensive plane, the plane that can never ho turned out in quantity production.
Ford disclosed these facts here in an interview given while the fifteen millionth "model T" Ford was In his interview being finished.
the famous manufacturer took of casion to pay his respects to Cap- tain Charles Lindbergh, hero of the New York to Paris light.
"He Knows."
"What does his flight menn?" he repeated in response to a question. It means, for one "It means a lot. Ching, that here in America we have at least one boy who knows that he knows what he knows."
With that crypile remark Ford Was 'silent for a mument.
"Now that you have cluttered up the streets with Fords," a reporter anid, "people are expecting that you will begin to clutter up the sky with airplanes."
"But I am interested in larger planes real planes, planco that will carry 100 to 200 passengers, planes that will fly in any kind of weather, in any season of the year, planes that will go a ywhere and any time. That is the only kind of plane in which I am interested."
"Will you build such a plane "he was asked.
INEA
This big "acrial Pullman," recently built at Henry Ford's airplane factory for the Standard Oil Co. of Indiana, is believed to give a faint hint of the kind of planes Henry Ford will build some day. The upper picture shines what the plune looks like; below is the interior. Note the berths, the rows of easy chairs and the pantry and kitchenette
between the main, cabin and the pilots' compartment. Studies Problem.
"If one man can safely fly across the ocean, 100 men can be carried across safely in a passenger air plane."
At Dearborn Ford proudly brought out the first car he ever made the odd-looking thing that was put together 34 years ago.
"Vell," he replied, "Edsel and I have talked about it. We have been studying the question. If a million dollars would build such a plane, someone would start the manufae
But auch tare of them at once. planes would cost a lot of money.
"They are coming however, just
Ford recalled that he had sold one as surely as the fast trains came to succeed the stage coach. Air travel of his first cars for $160. Some can be made just as safe as anyone suggested he could still sell The Lind them if he reproduced them to-day, other kind of travel. bergh flight has proven that it is ocean with
"I guess I could," he said. feasible to cross the
few, anyway." passenger traffic.
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SATURDAY, JULY 8, 1927.
MOTORIST
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CARE OF THE HORN..
GERMAN CONTROL been made. uso of by De Dion Bon- (on for the production of one of Its OF DE DION BOUTON? raodels.:
During the past few weeks offers for the purchase of the De Dion
Negotiations in Hand. Bouton Company have been received Negotiations are now in hand from a German group comprising. which are likely to result in the the Deutsche Bank, the Commer De Dion Bouton Company, the old- Privat Darmstaedter, and the Na- est motor car concorn in France, tional Dresdner and Marx Goldsch- passing under German financial and midt, of Mannheim, which are the technical control. As has been financial organizations, mainly rea announced, the company went into ponsible for the united Mercedes the hands of a liquidator soveral and Benz companies, of Stuttgart weeks ago, but the factory, is still and Mannheim. An official of the operating, and attempts have not De Dion Bouton Company, seen at It is unreasonable to expect a mixture proportions Is by been reluxed to place the Arm on Puteaux, admitted that negotiations were in hand, but as they had not horn to work forever without removing the jets and chokes now a more solid financial basis.
in use and substituting for them On the authority of a statement been completed ho refused to make attention, for it is nothing more other ones, better adapted to this made by an official of the Peugeot any statement.
With the exception of a certain than a tiny electric motor "which special fuel. You can got this Company, it was announced recent- drives, a noise-making machine. Tono at any well equipped servicely that this concern had absorbed amount of English capital, there is Some makes of horns are claimed station of this make of carburetor, De Dion Bouton. Negotiations, no foreign control of the French If you however, were abandoned at the last motor industry, and the prospect of to have their bearings lubricated at very slight expense.
tell them what grade. of fuel you moment, Peugent Intervention. ben leading German concern obtaining for life, but most of them require are using, they should be able to ing limited to the purchase of possession of De Dion Bouton la olling, The motor part of the install the right jets at once. The the Bellanger factory, which lind rather startling. horn is covered with a sheet metal jets at present in your carburetor cover, the removal of which gives are probably all right for ordinary commercial fuel, but this special access to the parts. The coramu- gasoline is doubtless considerably tator should be cleaned, by holding less viscous than common gasoline against it a small pad of clothinnd it passes the jets at a faster very slightly moistened with cero-rate, producing an overrich mix-
ture. sene, while the horn is being blown, until no more dirt comes
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A Hissing Sound.
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off. Two or three drops of light Question: What is the cause oil should be placed in the two of a peculiar hissing sound that! holes, one at the commutator end seems to come from the breather of the shaft and the other near of my
Answer: Such R sound is where the shaft enters the sound box, but too much,oil should be usually caused by the escape from the crankcase of gases which have avoided as it may soak the arma-blown down from the cylinders ture windings. Dirt on the inside past pistons, which are leaky in of the tover and clacwhere should their bores, on account of poorly
If the tone has fitted rings or he 'removed. become too high pitched, it can be cylinder walls. deepened by adjusting the notched button on the shaft into more forcible contact with the diaphragm. Loosen the locknut at the commutator end of the shaft and turn the nut inside it slightly righthandedly, tightening the lock-| nut again. The opposite proce- dure will give a higher tone if desired. Tighten the connexions: of the wire from the button an
connexion: After very long use) of that which leads to the battery the brushes may become worn out and have to be replaced.
"Cranky" Steering on Turns. Question: The steering wheel my Ford car tends to give a quick jerk completely over towar the direction the car is being turned and to kind of lock in that position, when corners are being taken at fast speeds, although new bushings and spindle bolts have been installed and the joint: tightened. How can this be cor rected?
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Starts Easily but Wastes Gus.
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