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MOTORING SECTION
SIMPLIFIED
Clutch and Gears Abolished.
AMERICAN COMBINATION.
Large Amalgamation Rumoured.
• For some time there have been According to a cable published occasional references in the motor in the Melbourne "Herald," there is Ing Press to the inventions of Mr. a possibility of a merger between Constantinesco, who is well known several large American automotive in British automotive circles, and it Arms. It seems to be the general would appear, from an advertise trend of the industry for the large ment appearing in'a current num-irms to form alliances of the ber of a British motoring periodical nature, apd. If it be true that the that he has succeeded in getting Dodge, Packard, Nash and Mack some of his ideas into such a shape (truck companies are to be com- that they are considered, commer fbined, there may be changes In cially practicable.
policy of Yar-reaching effect.
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The
U.S. PRODUCTION.
Smaller Than Last Year.
state that the automobile industry Advices received from New York
a withholding judgment on 1927 until sales during the next few Woekenre observed, saya the London correspondent of the "Times of Ceylon." Meanwhile first quarter production schedules are upon a fairly liberal basis, though smaller than last year. Dosiers' stocking. except whore new models are being Introduced, is described a very modest as the cheer in production late in the year saved a situation that was beginning to look danger- us. Fear that farm sales may be relatively poor la expressed The completed The American Depart- record of 1926 is gradually being
ment of Commerco reports the year's production fn, the United States at 3,736,048 passenger cara and 494,877 trucks, compared with 3,696,490 and 478,396 in 1925. The December figure of 137,961 passenger cars was the smallest of any month in five years.
The B.F.. Goodrich Company reports the year's registration at 22,278,643, an increase of 2044.618 as compared with production this would point to a replacement demand of approxi- mately 2.600,000. Results for in- dividun! companies for the year are Interesting. The figures are COM- piled by Dow-Jones of New York-l
General Motors
The advertisernent blazona forth cable is as follows the advantage of the Constantinesco ."New York, Feb. 6.—Rumoura are car which is claimed to operate current of a huge motor merger in without gears or clutch. A two-volving Dodge, Nash, Packard and three seater torpedo body model. Mack truck companies. If the mer advertised at £216 complete, and the ger matorialises, the new corpora descriptive matter is as followstion will be one of the greatest in "The Constantinesco car. la, fitted the world. rivaling Ford and with the Constantinesco torque General Motors companies. A converter combined in one unit with wealthy banking group is said to the engine. No gears cr clutch are he behind the move," required. The converter has the in- Dodge Bros. (Ind.) has as pre- herent characteristic which proxident one of the most prominent vides just the right torque at the lenders of American automobile right time to suit the prevalling thought. Mr. Frederick H. Haynes. road conditions without the aid of it is governed by a board of 14 controls of any kind beyond the directors, Including Horace E. throttle control of the engine. The Dodge, the only representative of converter enables a smaller engine the Dodge family. Its astata in to be used..
1925 were £30,000,000, and the 1924 "The car free-heels automatisales were 222,236 chassis, with a eally, giving considerable economy big increase on that total in 1926, in petrol consumption. It cannot The Dodge car is probably amongst run backward while in forward gear the first half dozen most popular for on an upward gradient."
are in the world: There are many motorists who Mack Trucks Inc., New York, la NEW SEASON GINGER hall with delight a car in the holding company for the Inter-Hudson
which geahangin was unnecessational Motor Gar Co., the Mack Willys-Overland sary, and the advent of the car over-Bros, Motor Cer Co., the Interna-
Chrysler seas will be awaited with interest. ional Painel Motor Co., the Nash
Mk Moder Twel Co.. the Mack Studebaker International Truck Co., and Mack Packard Trucks, Ltd. (Canada). The Muck truck is ones of America's oldest conamerelal motor products, and the Some idea of the extent of the other vehicles marketed by the cor- | General' premises ocupled by the fleets of poration have big sales. The joint the London General Omnibus Com-stock holdings of the corporation on pany can be obtained from the fact December 12, 1924, were £3,000,000 that this Company bas revently per cent. cumulative. 21,070,000 placed a repeat order with the Lacre second preferred stock, Motor Car Company for no fewer £1.120,000 in common stock. The than 13 of the smaller type of controlled factories cover 1.700,000 Laere "sweeper. This very con- square feet. siderable fret, is to be used for the
Nash Motors Co., Incorporated, cleansing of the LG.O.C. garages Wisconsin, ha a joint stock capi in and around London. The smalltal of more than 23,500,000, and in er Lacre sweeper may be described corporates Ajax Motors (250.000), as a miniature edition of the Lacre the Seaman Body Co., Kenosha Hines road sweeping machine that is em- Lafayette Motors Coll Martin ployed by an enormous number of municipalities throughout the Nash Motors Co., Naah Cincinatti There are undoubtedly Motors Co., Nash Uriesera Auto Co., throughout the British Empire many the South-West Nash Co.. and the works and substantial garages, the North-West Nash Motors Co. Jta cleansing of which would be cheap factories cover 33 acres. and the ened and facilitated by the employ-employees in: 1924 totalled 5.580, ment of the smaller Lacre sweeper. Its production of Nash cars in 1924 totallet 52,930, but big increases were made in 1926-26.
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Motors.
Dodge
Hudson Willys-
and
.Overland!
Chrysler.. Nash...... Studebaker Packard ...
BROOKLANDS RACING TRACK
Packard is one of America's ear IN 1927.
aristocrats, and is manufactured at Detroit by the Packard Motor Car Brooklands Motor Racing Track Co., which incorporates the Packard at Weybridge, England. will be Weiss and the Ohio automobile com- slightly changed when the openingpanies. Its joint stock totąla meeting-which, by the way: is be- £7,000,000, and Its 1923 production fore Easter this year-takes place. was 21,571 vehicles. The 1926. There will be a single span bridge production more, than doubled that across the finishing straight on the total. The company embraces con- spot occupied by the temporary cension companies in London, and bridge used for the Grand Prix and Coblenz (Germany).
200. Miles Race, thus allowing com munication between the paddock
and the general enclosures" while
THE BACK-SEAT DRIVER.
encing is in progress.The Auto-when Aunt Amelia visits us, we.
car."
MORE EFFORTS TO SECURE SILENT MOTOR CYCLES.
According to "The Motor Cycle."
take her in the car;
But when she is a passenger. Dad
won't go very far.
The back seat always she selecta
but then-my snakes alivet,
exactly how to drive!
the Auto Cycle Union-governing She always starts to tell my dad, body of the motor cycle movement in | Britain-held a silencer test last) morth
The useful life of motor vehicles in the United States has been gradually increasing. It in now
about eight years..
You mustn't try to pass that truck
or there will be a smashi You're going thirty miles an hour! Now don't you think that's 'rash?
A car is coming round the curve! Look out, or you'll collide-
A novel type of road has been You're towards the middle of the laid recently under the supervision
of the borough, engineer at Middles-
road: keep over at the elde!
and you had best go slow.
brough, A continuous metal car-We're coming to a cross-street now pet consisting of steel and iron plates, constructed in the form of See there's a guide-ppat over there grida, with bars and voids, was laid
to tell us how to go!
"
Production.
· 1926. 1925. 1,225,000 836,002
880,000 266,000-
185,000 220,000 230,000 264,000
175,000 180,000. 137.000 98,000 111,000 137,000- 35,000 90,000
Profits.
1926..
1925:
$
188,674,000 116,016,000. 25,000,000 25,858,000 5,984,000 21,379,000
9,875,000 12,109,000 17,440,000 17,410,000 28,846,000 10,268,000 12,804,000 16,620,000) 14,290,000 15,149,000
A NEW POEM.
I have received from the driver; of Dennis omnibus the immortal verse that I here present free to my readers. It is a perfectly bona fide effort which perhaps accounts for the enthusiasm and at the same time, perhaps. for the comparisons- which we all know are odious, and need not be taken too seriously;
li
The Dennis is a lovely Bus It never seems to make a fues,
H
SATURDAY, APRIL 9, 1927.
DAILY CROSS-WORD PUZZLE.
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(abbr)
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(The solution of the above cross-word puzzle wil "appear in Monday's issue along with a new cross-word
puzzia.)
DIESEL-TYPE ENGINES IN COMMERCIAL VEHICLES.
Will commercial vehicles of the future be propelled by Diesel-type For acceleration you cannotongines Lengthy experiments have
been made by German motor manu
beat
It's like a greyhound on the leap facturers with Diesel engines of
For all-round wear
various designe and sizes in busl- ness vehicles chassis, and French, Italian and American firms are do-
I do not care
You cannot beat it anywhere. The London Bus you want to
нее
It's away from the point before
you count, three.
For speed it leaves all others
flat
It ought to go on Brooklanda
track
The miles it does you'd be sur-
prised
It opens other people's eyes There is only one fault with this
'Bus, I see
There isn't one belongs to me But think after all I've said
And done.
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The Dennis People-ought to
give me one
For the metre, punctuation and the capitals, as for the poem itself, am indebted to my correspondent. Ae to the matter, I have only one The phrase "like a greyhound on or two minor criticisms to offer.
the leap" strikes me as conveying a doubtful compliment to the clutch. The remarks on the "London "bus"
are certainly not, as the 'bus itself
is stated to be, "away from the point," with the possible exception of the statement that its speed cap- abilities are such that "it leaves all others flat." I can only hope, in this respect, not to
be included amongst the others."' I should
en a concrete foundation while the Dear me! the road is very steep-prefer to be classified as an "also latter was still unset.
it's not the way to take.
Concrete
was then worked, into the voids on Oh. I'm a nervous as can be! I the surface of the plates, binding hope you'll use your brake!" the foundation and the metal car-
pét as a firm part of the roadway, When Aunt Amelia visits us, we A non-skid surface was thus pre take her in the car; vided. In a recent test of the can- But as I said a while ago we don't crete slabe formed in this way go very far. heavy blows with a steel hammer To tell Dad how to run the car she "failed to separate the girds from always.seams to strive.
the concrete and the severest heat-But thin la just the queerest part- tests were equally well resisted.
she never learned to drive!
A GENTLEMÄN? ARE YOU SURE HE WANTS TO: SEE ME?
ran."-From "Torque," by The Torque Tube ("Motor Transport.")
MORE SILENT MOTOR CYCLES.
"The Motor Cycle," in conjunc- tion with the Triumph "Cycle Co., Coventry, is offering prizes of £100, 250 and £25 for a allencer which will tender a Triumph motor cycle, as quiet as a car. The competi-" tion remains open until mid-April.
BRINGING UP FATHER.""
MR-JIGGS=THIS IS A PRÉSENT FROM THE RETIRING TRAVELINCK,
AMBASSADOR HE SAYS HE'LL
"HAVE NO MORE USE FOR IT: BUT THAT YOU WILENEED. IT IN YOUR NEW POSITION)
ing likewise. In Britain A few makers are investigating the sub-
ject, and it will not be surprising to, sec a British-built, Diesel-engined véhicle In the near future. Among the outstanding advantages of the Diesel-type engine, says "Motor Transport," are its fuel economy and the fact that no electric Igni- tion la required..
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