1931-04-23 — Page 11

THURSDAY, APRIL 23, 1931.

FORD'S FACTORY IN cent

BRITAIN.

1,000 Cars a Day From

Dagenham.

A visit to Dagenham, which is in Essex, reveals that an apparently unpromising site has been selected by Mr. Henry Ford and his asso- elates as the situation for a great factory destined to supply British, Continental, Indian and North African demands for Ford motor vehicles. Others have looked at the site for various purposes, but up- parently have been scared off by its seeming inaccessibility and bog- giness, and by the gigantic tusk of converting it into a base for fac- tories.

What frightens others stimulates the great Henry. and in under a year's time what is probably the greatest conception of a manufac- turing plant for dealing with one product that has ever taken root on British soil will be fully realised.

A Vast Plant.

To-day the skeleton and floors of a vast collection of shops have arisen. A thousand feet square, the shops will be served by a complete railway system. Pronting it to the river are the offices, and behind the offices is a garage where members of the staff will be able to keep their own cars while at work. On one skle of the mass of shops a factory is being erected by one of the American pressed steel companies. Here will be made the steel panels and pillars for the Ford vehicles. Current for power, light and heat ing will be produced on the prem- 1505.

self-contained So

is the scheme that there will be no need even to buy water. Already two weils, richting large supplies, have

born Bunk.

Wages-£100,000 a Week. In front of the main office block a deep-water jetty is being con- structed, and from this point, with- in a few yards. of the final exit from the factory, the finished Ford products will be shipped to their overseas destination. It is planned to employ some 15,000 men when

the whole scheme is completed, and the wages bill will not be less than £100,000 a week. A ayadicate un- connected with the Ford organisa- tion is planning to erect alongside the factory 1,600 houses for the use of the employees.

The factory, with its equipment, will cost £4,000,000. It is being laid out for a smooth and economi- cal production of 1,000 vehicles a diny.

Organisation-And Money. Anticipations

are

that 80 per

ATTRACTIVE TAILORING

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AT PRICES TO SUIT ANY PURSE.

PERFECT FIT

AND

THE

CHINA MAIL.

more

of these will be exported. “Whilst a substantial reduction Elaborate plans are being made to in motor taxation might tempor- deal with and utilise waste products, arily reduce the annual revenue," and even ordinary household refuse, adds the memorandum, "any de- Including old tins and cana and erenso in yield would bo such like, will be obtained from than compensated by increased re- local urban councils and other colpts due to stimulation of new bodies for fuel and resale as scrap vehicle sales, greater employment metal. Costly plant is being in in the British moter and allied in- stalled for this purpose. Household dustries, increased usage of refuse now costing public authori-vehicles now unlicensed for one or ties many shillings per ton to dis- more quarters, greater sales of pose of down the Thames will be second-hand-vehicles, and improv- accepted by the Ford plant as valued export trade. able material for treatment. Such

"On the subject of the horge-

is the benefit of organisation-and power tax, the conference en- money.

dorses the view of the British motor manufacturers. that it is the amount of the taxation, rather than the method, which precludes it from suggesting any alteration in horse-power formula."

MOTOR TAXATION.

Restriction on British

Trade.

Another effort is being made by The Conference of Motor Organi- sutions to induce the Chancellor of the Exchequer to reduce the taxation of motor vehicles.

A memorandum has been ad- dressed to Mr. Snowden on behalf of the twenty-one organisations It is forming the conference, signed by the Hon. Sir Arthur Stanley, chairman, and Mr. A. E. Cave, the hon. secretary of the conference.

BLUE BIRD'S CREATOR.

Burial on Eve of Life's Triumph.

The tragedy of the Blue Bird has to be written on the same page of history which recounts Captain Campbell's wonderful achievement. i

Mr. Montague Napier, chalman of D. Napier and Son, the man who designed Blue Bird's engine in co- operation with the firm's staff, did not live, by a margin of days, to see the success of his plans.

Since representations were made

A year

the memorandum ayo, states, a decrease in the sales and His entire interest was concen- usage of motor vehicles had taken trated on Campbell's attempt to pince. The burden of motor taxa-break the record. He had been an tion has been a substantial factor, invalid for ten years, but he flout- it is submitted, in restricting ex- ed this infirmity, and was at work pansion of the manufacturing, within a week or two of his death. distributing, and service trades,Recently that work was concerned and reridering those trades less exclusively with the wonderful able to contribute to national re-merchanism which impelled Blue venue, besides adding to unemploy Bird to a speed never attained by

mun and motor-car.

ment.

As an example of the injurious! effects of high taxation on road transport. It is stated that in some British Industries, notably the cotton industry, motor taxation imposes the equivalent of a tax of from 10 per cent. to 15 per cent. on the transport cost of the goods on each journey.

Other points made in the memorandum are that:-

Of the £42,400,000 yielded by motor taxes in 1929-30 no less than 47 per cent. was taken by the Exchequer for purposes other than roads.

He went to Cannes, and there. remote

the from Daytona and engine which was his mind's darl

died. ing, he

Нія body Was brought to London, and was buri

a few days before Campbell at four flashed along the course miles a minute and justified all his hopes.

ed

Mr. Napier was sixty years old -a giant of a man with a small. pointed beard. He had been an ardent cyclist in his youth, and was a great yachtsman. A new yacht which was being built for him is almost completed.

Mr. Napier was

of the pioneers of the motor industry. He began work on his first car in

one

Last year 500,000 cars and 600,000 motor-cycles were taken out of use and not licensed for one от more quarters. The 1897-thirty-four years ago-and numbers are growing. Lower

Napier in 1902 won the Gordon- taxation would encourage all-Bennett Trophy-the only British

icar that has won it. the-year use.

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TANG YUK, DENTIST Successor to

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Tel. 50841.

ON LOK

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AT

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BOOKS

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for

Bibles, Pocket Testaments, Prayer Books and Stationery. General Literature Presentation Books Children's Books a Speciality. THE BOOK & BIBLE DEPOT Wyndham Street.

Next to King's Theatre. Agents for

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1

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53, Queen's Road Central

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