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'PLANE & CAR.
Three Hundred Makers
of History.
Now York, Nov. 21, Climaxing two days of travel, 300 buyers of Hupmobile straight eights returned to their home cities last week from Detroit. And In thousands of homes throughout the United States and Canada, real people are discussing the thrilling experiences of these same 300 par- ticipants in Hupmobile's annual Sky-Road Parade and Millon Dollar Driveaway which staged on October 29 and 30.
Was
This event brought together the two newest means of public con- veyance the aeroplane and motor car-which transported these 800 bayers of Hupmobile cora from their homes in the West, Middle West, South and East to Detroit and back again. Following their arrival in huge transport planes, the driveaway on the second day the largest this year among cars of this type and price-sent these same new owners to their homes, exulting in the fact that they had played a major part in making aviation and automobile history.
Described by Du Bois Young, president of Hupmobile, as being not just the second annual Sky
and 133 horsepower Models "H" and "" in the driveaway.
The First Arrival.
The actual arrival of the Sky- Road caravan from the mid-west WAS witnessed by hundreds of visitors to the Ford Airport. The first ship to land at the airport was the Shell Lockheed monoplane the famous Lieut. piloted by Jimmy Doolittle. Although fourth to take off from the Municipal Airport in Chicago, his speed plane delivered the party headed by George Weber, St. Louis Hup- mobile distributor, to Detroit in exactly one hour and twenty-six minutes, one of the fastest marks ever made between the Windy City and Detroit by a passenger plane. Landing in rapid succession at in- tervals of approximately minutes were the transport planes furnished by the National Air Trausport, Curtis Publishing Com- pany, piloted by Lieut. Gorton, well-known. flyer, two from the Standard Oil Company of Indiana, the Timken Roller Bearing Com- pany, the Fokker of the Goodyear Tyre and Rubber Company, the Ryan from the Electric Auto-lite Company, the Lockheed furnished by the Vacuum Oil Company, and belonging to the the Stinson
Mobiloil Company.
two
In the first ship was Charles E. Gambill, president of the Gambill Motor Company, Hupmobile distri-
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CAR TRAFFIC. The Detroit and Canada
• Tunnel.
New York, Nov. 10. The Detroit and Canada Tunnel, connecting Detroit and Windsor, Ontario, is the first vehicular sub- way ever built between two nations. Two others are in use in the United States the Holland Tunnel in New York and the Geofge A. Posey Tufnel, connect ing Oakland and Alameda, Cali fornia.
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"Three rather technical
words
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IN THE DESERT.
memory as one of the outstanding feats contributed to the automobile industry by Hupmobile." Detroit's official welcome to the flying. de-
legations was briefly given by John Great Performance by a
C. Nagel, president of the city council.
Motion pictures of the take-off in Chicago, furdished by the Chicago Daily News, were shown at the dinner, while music and entertain- ment was furnished by the Murray [Body Corporation.
After
Ford Car.
The glittering armies of the Crusades which swept across Asis
Minor to Bagdad and Damascus 700
years ago may have found travel in breakfast Thursday the Syrian Desert a glamorous morning, the party was transport thing, but modern transportation as
Road Parade but one of many to, butor in Chicago. It was largely ed to the factory. By 10 a.. B follow in each succeeding year, this year's event was important from three distinct angles,
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through the resourcefulness and line of cars More than 250 in experienced by an archaeological spirit of the Gambill organization, number, (several eastern points expedition in the same country is hended by Mr. Gambill, his brother were shipping their cars by boat) something quite different, according Denman Gumbill, and S. L. Davis, started away under police escort. sales manager, that this year's Michigan State Troopers conveyed
to Leroy Waterman, head of the event was made possible.
the party through the state.
Mesopotamian Expedition of the Joining the main cavalcade from
Unable to remain in Detroit to University of Michigan. the middle west over the Ford escort the driveaway on its way The hardships of transportation ships carrying several men Airport were two fast passenger across Michigan as was originally in the interior of Mesopotamia" women buyers from Huntington, which sailed majestically over the the archaeologists, said Mr. Water-
and
planned, the Goodyear blimp would have greatly handicapped lander, head of the Cleveland dis day evening departed early Thurs- man in a recent report received at West Virginia, while A. L. Eng-city during the dinner on Wednes tributorship bearing his name, and day morning for Ita home hangar Ann Arbor, had it not been for a his party arrived just in advance in Akron. of the big flight on the rogular
Model A Ford Sedan which was Cleveland-Detroit passenger run
procured at Bagdad last September of the National Air Transport;
from the Ford Motor Company. The closed model was found to be exceptionally well adapted to the conditions of the desert, country, said Mr. Waterman, because it afforded protection against not only cold and rain, but also against dust, insects and hot. winds.
"Through sand and dust like fine
J. J. Williams, In Rochester, New York, distributor, created quite a sensation when two ships. with the company name painted on
DON'T!
When Not to Ask A Policeman.
Stimulus to Business, First and foremost, it provided both a stimulus to general business rest of the tube was built by the
and partial restoration of сод so-called cut-and-cover method and must be understood," said Mr. any connected directly or remote
fidence on the part of every com- through excavation of open sp. Mann "if the motorist is clearly toy with the big driveaway. It was proaches. Thus one half of the understand the importance of tunnel will be seen to be under wheel alignment. These words are commented upon at the informal this feature that was most often water and the other half under 'camber, caster,' and 'toe-in." land.
dinner which was addressed not The front wheels of a car are The tunnel will prove a boon for cambered. That is, they are closer only by factory officials, but repres travellera going Eastward via together at the bottom than at the the city of Detroit.
sentatives of other companies and Ningara Falls, effecting a saving top. They 'toe-in.'
A message which means of more than 100 miles over
the they
from Mayor Frank Murphy said in are closer together at shore route south of Lake Eric. It the front than at the back. The part: "I trust that your gathering also will be extremely convenient front axle is castered, or tilted a Detroit will be a strong impetus for growing numbers of Detroiters backward."
toward stimulating general busi- owning Summer homes the
rega," Canadian shore of Lake Erie, and plained, to counteract forces which transportation with the automobile with the other group.
All these things are done, he ex- Commenting on the union of air them circled the field and landed for many others who annually re-
The plane The Detroit and Canada Tunnel sort in the Georgian Bay and put in motion. The weight of the Clarence M. Young,
come into action when the car is in this year's Sky-Road Parade, which made the longest trip to is approximately a mile long from Muskoka
Lake districts of
assistant | participate in the Sky-Road Parade
It is good to see, says The Light porta to portal.
car brings the front wheels closer secretary of commerce in charge of arrived last at about 5.30 pm. It The American Northern Canada. portal is but a few hundred feet Commuters, however, will find
together at the top than the bot-Heronautice, said in part:. "This is had started.. early that morning Car and Cyclecar, that the chief four, from, four to six inches deep, the Ford is quite at home," stated from the centre of the financial the tunnel most useful of all. tom, a tendency offset by the cama most constructive innovation to from New Orleans, and carried constable of West Sussex is at.
"In mud like and shopping districts of Detroit, Ending, as it does, in the business her. As a car moves ahead the demonstrate the distinct advant-F. J. Johnson, the distributor, and tempting to lessen, if possible, the Mr. Waterman. while the Canadian end is located district of both Detroit and Wind- apart at the front, The toe-Intion to the potential buyers of movies and still pictures, the on centres suffer as the result of both through
wheels are drawn back, or spread ages of one system of transporta his party. Following the taking of amount of interference from which glue from six to twelve inches polit-duty constables at important | deep our САГ Rover stalled, In the very heart of Windsor's sor, this tunnel will enable com compensates for this. The wheels another, and it emphasizes beyond tire party, escorted by city police, motorists and pedestrians using and no road visible the Ford rapidly expanding business contre, muters to travel from City Hall in must have a following action to the measure that the aeroplane and
country - under water
The roadway in the tunnel is 22 from three to five minutes.
was taken in special buses to them as a kind of information proved seaworthy. Our expedi feet wide, allowing one lane of A miniature city has bean erected to the axle. The backward tilt, tive, but that each serves a definite
king-pina by which they are fasten-motor car are in no sense competi- | downtown hotel,
bureau and thereby not only taking tion camp is thirty-one miles from traffic in each direction and aned at each end of the Tunnel for or caster, of the axle accomplishes purpose in the general transporta-
President Optimistic.
the men's minds off their duty, but | Bagdad, thirteen miles of that is extra lane to spare,. The estimated housing tunnel officials, and equip the desired result.
R. S. Cole, vice-president In often seriously Inconveniencing through a roadless wilderness where capacity is 1,000 vehicles an hourment. Ten structures have been
tion scheme and each can well charge of sales of the Hupp Motor other road traffic whilst queries are the only sign of the trail is our in each direction. The project has built on each side of the river. tyre man, explained, the front advantage of their common in master at the informal dinner. Ho
When a new car is delivered, the afford to take full cognizance and Car Corporation, was the toast put and answered.
former wheel marks been under construction for two Terminal plazas are large, so that
and littlo It would, of course, be a pity if pounds of earth thrown up at in.. introduced Dubois Young, pre- years and a half, and is coating traffic entering or leaving the tun wheala presumably are perfectly terest."
оле of approximately $25,000,000.
The second point established by sident of the company and chief slogans, "Ask a Policeman!" were after dark, eighteen miles is by, a our greatest national tervals to keep us from getting lost nel spreads out fanwise to factii aligned. But the road shocks of Ventilation has been designed to tate rapid inspection by customs 500 miles are often enough to Hupmobile's Sky-Road Parado speaker of the evening. keep air in the turnal purer than authorities, International travel change the camber, the toe-in, or Driveaway was that it set a new "There is very little about this to go by the board, but a constable dirt road that is fairly good in air in the street outside. Disabled at this point should take on a new the caster. If regular Inspections record in the annals of aviation in gathering to remind us that some on point duty has a special Job to Summer but may become a quagmire automobiles will be removed quick spurt when the tunnel la opened are made, little or no expense Is that more individuals were trans people believe business is in the perform to direct traffic and he in Wister. Our car was dar only ly and safely. Traffic will be re to the public early in November,
entailed in keeping the alignment ported in a single fight of trans- midst of a slump," declared Mr. Cannot get on with his job if he is gulated so that, despke a fairly
as it should be. Literally millions port ships than have ever before Young. I am certain that we being constantly pestered by people of automobiles, however, are per been carried by commercial aero-have passed through the worst of who could obtain the Information mitted to run for months and years planes. This feature alone, one of this depression, and cite as they require just as easily from without such. Inspections, the dinner speakers declared, evidence of a steady upturn this excessive, tyre wear are only a few enterprise and ability of Hup- This is not the first Sky-Road
Faulty steering, shimmying and "established beyond question the unusual gathering to-night, “
high rate of speed, driving in the tunnel will be safer than surface driving in the surrounding streets.
PUDDLE JUMPING.
of the many penalties paid by mobile in doing business in the motorists who fall to have their most modern fashion."
Three separate methods of con Some Causes of Faulty struction were employed in build-
Steering. ing Detroit's great sub-aqueous, highway to Canada. Probably the most spectacular construction Real economy, to say nothing of care checked monthly. Tyre shops. In addition to these two features, feature was the fabrication, safety and comfort, is brought automobile service stations, and the third was that Thursday morn loupching, towing and sinking of about when the shimmying, puddle garages are practically all equipped ing's driveaway way the largest tife nine steel tubes comprising the Jumping, wobbly-wheeled antome, to make the simple measurements from. Detroit, to be devoted, exclu- under-water, portion of the tonner. bile goes to the repair shop for needed to determine whether the sively to eight cylinder cars, of These tubes have an aggregate front wheel' tightening" and align= car's front wheels are properly this price class in 1980. All of the length of more than half a mile, ment. Authority for this stats performing their Indispensable cars in the returning cavalcades all of which is under water, moments is Mr. Mann of Durs Garage,unctions. Service monzoggest wore straight eights, and every Next in spectacular appeal werk who as a dealer in Fink Tyres do that tory, uma he battery noods hotly type produced by this man the shield-driven sections, amonnte. In an excellent position to see what water, the motorial should have his facturer was represented Century -ling to a quarter of a milé
happens when, drivers Ara carele front wheel alignment checked Eight, 100 horsepower Hodel. "C"
Parade. Mr. Gambill, our Chicago distributor, and his organization originated the Sky-Bond Parade o
other sources.
means of communication with civil- isation for supplies or in case of illness. Enough to say that it never failed us,
"We used the car In the service of the Michigan Mesopotamia Archaeological Expedition from September to the end of January and then drove it across the Syrian desert 584 miles from Bagdad, to Damascus In 23 hours, with four people in the car, without mishap.
"There is no car that could have
POLISHING ALUMINIUM.
"Aluminium may be restored to its year ago last April. This event in original sheen quickly and easily by the second of its kind. But I pro- using the following preparation mise you that, because Hupmobile Mix metal polish, qucalyptus, and originated, this combination of air whitening in the proportions of Elx been secured for us that could and automobile travel, it will not two, and-ons, ferjectively. This equal the new Ford for use in Irage. be the last solutions acts very quickly on Its light weight, coupled with
Mr. Gabill responded to an In- aluminium, and will give it a power and dependability, and Lalan troduction and declared "unskad mirror-like finish that is otherwise fact that Ford service is always in kvanture, for such it has been to hard to get without the use of a reach, make it a car without a rivat
most of us, will long remain in our power buling machine.
If that region-
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