'THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH. MOTORING
MOTOR TRADE AND AVIATION.
General Motors Enter New Realm..
SUPPLEMENT. SATURDAY, AUGUST 10, 1929.
BRITISH TRIUMPH, one hundred mechanics along the
The Le Mans Race. NIGHT OF THRILLS.
line of pits leaped their counters and, heedless of oncoming motor- hundred miles per hour along the cars tearing at from eighty to a
track, rushed for the blaze, carry- ing extinguishers and anything that would be useful.
It wus
General Motors has finally made Ternstedt Manufacturing Com-
Le Mans, June 16. the automotive industry a major pany with its body hardware; the struggle here in the titanie dual closure opposite and near the The annual twenty-four hours' Ten thousand. people in the en- participant in aviation.
Guide Lamp Corporation with its motor-car race, the Grand Prix stands rushed pell-nell for the Leading automotive meare be-lighting facilities; ginning to grace the tables of Bearings division and the New De- Rudge-Whitworth Cup, has ended Fortunately the barriers were so the Hyatt d'Endurance and the race for the nearest Point of observation.; boards of dircelors for the great parture Manufacturing Company in a crowning victory for Captain excellently devised that not one aviation corporations, alongside with their bearing products; the Woolf Barnato and Birkin with was able to reach the scene, or the bankers and ploncers of the air. Jaxon Steel Products division with Captain Barnato's six-and-half mad rush might have crowded the Corporations that used to be idents wheels and rims, and finally the litre Bentley motor-car writes the track and led, to lamentable tified entirely with production now have their hands poration with its retail financing dent.
automative General Motors Acceptance Cor-Daily Express special correspon-dianster. in the new business that is expect advantages,
The fire was extinguished and ed to show even greater resuits) Of course, General Motors holda this afternoon the motor-ear eav-wheeled out of the way, but later
In the twenty-four hours ending the motor-car suved. than Its predecessor in transporta-minority stock in the two most ered 1,774 4-5 miles, an average Chiron, the alternative driver, took tien.
General Motors. The leader of Bendix and Fokker--but it may hour..
important restures it has entered of nearly seventy-four miles an it on the track again amid these, points the way,
Until only a year or so ago at least toward turning much
be expected to "use its influence' General Motors showed not slightest signs of entering this these subsidiaries,
their aviation business over ventues. At that time everybody
The first big step into aviation in aviation seemed still in a spect-taken by General Motors was made To-day, hacked by substantial tion took 25 per cent, of the stock in April, 1929, when the corpora- haaniat support and, encouraged of the newly formed Bendix Avia- by greatly increased popular inion Corporation. Its contribution terest and patronage, aviation hás
lative state.
wizards.
Ford is the Pioneer,
the
It was of
a triumph for British motor-cars, for Bentley machines took the first four pinces. An American Stutz came next, fol- owed by two American Chryslers, a Lea Francis (England), and two French Tracias.
10,000 Spectators. These ten were all that finished payment for (hin stock (out of twenty-five entries. There
tremendous cheering.
Brisson, despite the agony of his burns, declared his intention to take the wheel again at any cost. and an
he would do so was made through a loud speaker; but it was found that his burns were more serious than he would admit and, still protesting, he was taken to Lei Mans Hospital.
announcement that
I am glad to say that on inquiry
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became a more dependable source consists of the Delco Aviation Car were at one time 40,000 people pre-to-night his injuries are super- of worldly income. 31 has foster-
the backing of the automotivoporation with its aviation ignition sent. Thousands of motors official. The hospital authorities| patents and facilities, and other capted the parks, and excursion told me that despite the fact that rights the corporation has been trains were run from all parts of his hands are badly burned and his Pord, was the only outsider who holding in the aviation field. western France, " dared venture to the reninis of Has Substantial "Partners."
throat and inwer part of his face The great thrill of the race oc-seared, it is expected he will be aviatina before last year. Taking “control of the Stout all-metal air and Curtiss companies, both lead-resterday.
Representatives of the Wright, surred an hour before midnight able to leave the hospital in a day plane business, he has developeding aviation firms, are on the this into a formidable enterpren. board with those of General Ford's stevess And that Motors, showing at least to this many independents enraged the extent the united interests of the bankers of New York and the lenders in aviation and motors.usiness, has to be done by the was an international one. It was tomobile men of Distrit.' Now. This is true also of General with General Motors in the ganic, Motors' next big step into aviation, aviation may be on the high read with its acquisition of 40 per cent,
on. French ta industrial lendership even sure passing the automobile, “
ra
which he was driving, to the pit to Brisson had pulled in the Stutz,
Chief Battle, eplenish his petrol. This lenishing is always
The chief battle of this great! hurried twenty-four hours of endurance) triver himself, and the result is
invariably a waste ensende of america, Tought ost
A fight between England and
sallon or two. This waste splashsil, a contest that narrowed down of the shares of the Fokker over the Stulz tank at the rear. a trial of Bentleys against Stutz Aireraft Corporation. General Motors first stepped
Brissin promptly supped dow} Lately General Motors has ar-the cover. inte aviation, ather rantissly. nired the Allison Engineering
The epnilitions of the rare, which with the formation of the Delco Company which has been working
That instant a terrific blaze ofis really a double event, are com Aviation Corporation last year alan the development of a Diesel en-
lame splashed up.
plicated. It is, in the first place, momentarily the triple divishu of the off Belerine for airplanes as well aster the whole of the rear of the cars have to conform to standard
enveloping Brisson. A second
a trial of endurance, and the motor Hemy Corporation The aviation ther mechanical features. Thus part of the Delen business includ-General Motors places itself in
machine was In Rames.
conditions, Wigs, hoods, andj other-ordinary arrangements navė, ed the Bran: 2. tape 1of ignition aviation almost. to the hilt, await-{ Somebody made a dash for Bris-to be carried." systems for altplanes,
ing only its ownership of majority in, and snatched him from the At the
time, however, stock da one of its new "partners, furnace. He was led away blind- various General Motors divisions or in some of her independent" to d by a scorched face. There and subsidiaries had in them be completely wrapped in the was immediately fear that the materiad for aviation possibilities. industry.
woodwork of the Stutz adjacent Now with General Matora deflute- Besides General Motors and pit would be enveloped... ty in the air, these will most pro Fard, such automotive firm's as bably participate in keeping the Continental Motors and Lycoming, quarter of a mile on the right-hand These pita extend for about a parent up.
owned by Auburn, have eatered side of the track, presenting the aviation. Each has built gine for airplanes and is already a long wooden counter dve feet or
4 appearanée of elaborate stalls with} in potrafinu.
so built in front of ench.. From a We may be surprised soon withint of vantage almost the announcement.
Many Irons in the Fire. Among these General Mutis "y be included the Fisher Body division with its tre- mendous facilities for body build ing and its great feest tracts in of another auto company in avia-led at one time as though the pits Michigan and the south; the ACtion and further introduction of were actually on fire. Spark Ply Company, which has even others. For the automotive been manufacturing, plugs for air industry has from the first con-
of the entry mattately opposite the fire it look-
Anxious Moments,
plan use Tor †]ht' time; the Barred it eli the most logical| There were five minutes of ter- National, Plate Glara
Company fear bilate for development. of ritic thrill and anxiety. No sponer i1s play products.
the dilation.
with
was the 'arming dare reen than
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