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THURSDAY, DECEMBER 31, 1931.

PETROL ECONOMY.

SALVAGED' CARS.

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Methods, at the Ford Rouge Plant.

Tests by Bureau

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of Science.

THE CHINA MAIL.

AMAZING FIGURES.

How the Car Trade Has Grown,

When the history of the pre- sent generation is written one of the most striking things that will go on record will be the re- markable growth of the use of the automobile and its far- reaching effects on civilisation.

None but a visionary would 15 years ago have had the temerity, even the day was not far ahead when to suggest that one of the world's largest nationa would disburse nearly 20 per cent. of its annual expenditure per medium of retail establish- ments on automobiles or auto- mobile necessities. Yet this is exactly what has happened in the United States,

Dearborn, Mich.. At present motorists are keen- Installation of a 400-ton "fur- er than ever before to obtain nace, hot metal mixers and a the utmost mileage from every baling press capable of making gallon of petrol they buy. It furnace "sandwiches" put of a repercussion of the times salvaged automobiles at the rate that the subject of petrol eco- of almost one a minute is under nomy calls for very careful con- way at the Rouge Plant of the sideration, and the results of Ford Motor Company. These some recent investigations over additions involve an expenditure seas are worthy of consideration estimated at $500,000, and will bv motor owners in general. A increase the melting facilities of series of tests made by a Bureau the open hearth equipment by of Science revealed that much 600 tons, bringing the total capaetrr is wasted. due to the use city to approximately 2,600 tons of old spark plugs incapable of every 24 hours..

riving a properly intense igni- The new machinery will be ion spark. It is well known used in providing scrap metal that substantial power losses re essential to the making of steel.sult from the use of plugs that For the past 20 months a por-have gone beyond their natural

Statistics, recently issued by tion of this scrap has been ob-life of between 10 000 and the U.S.A. Department of Com- tained by wrecking old auto- 12,000 miles, but when lack of merce disclose some interesting mobiles of various sizes and attention to tyre inflation pres- figures anent how America's 120 makes which are purchased and sure is included the effect is lion of people armually dis- delivered by the company deal somewhat remarkable. Tests at burse the major portion of their erk. The present method is to the bureau showed that a car incomes. It is stated that there remove all materials of salvaging with its four tyres inflated to are 1,549,168 retail outlets for value, such as glass, leather and pressures 15 ner cent. below every descrintion of merchandise tyres, crush the chassis and slice normal, and with its engine fit in U.S.A., with an annual turn- the resulting wreckage to sizested with spark plugs which had over of approximately 10.000 suitable for admission to furnace seen 12.000 miles service, gave million pounds, equal to an an- doors. Here it is mixed with petrol consumption, perform-nual ner capita exponiture of molten pig iron and refined into once 20 ner cent. lower

than £84 178. 9d. high quality of steel. Under when inflation pressure

Careful and intensive research the new arrangement instead of brought up to normal and the has shown that out of the per erushing and shearing into bits lugs it will be necessary to thrust the ones of the

were replaced with new anita expenditure mentioned chasais into a powerful hydraulic tvne.

same muke and 19 9s. 9d. is spent yearly on Figures relating to the food. £16 148. Od. on automobiles, press which will shape them into actuel petrol mileage are not 12 2s. 3d. on general merchan compact bales hardly larger than available, but the foregoing in- disc, £7 69. 3d, on apparel.

Was

bales of hay, at the rate of apdicates that the improvement 6 Sa. Sd. on buildings, £3 17s. 6d. proximately one per minute.

wae equivalent to increasing the

say:

A conveyor will deposit the netrol consumption from, bales in charging boxes and the 20 miles per gallon to 25 miles boxes be emptied into the new which represents a big saving furnaces. Following the melting in 12 months' motoring. process the scrap steel will be transferred by crane-swung ladles to any of nine 100-ton open hearth furnaces stationed adjacent to it. There it subee- quently will be joined by molten, pig iron from the Rouge Plant blast furnaces.

Heretofore the molten pig when brought from the blast fur naces to the Open Hearth Build- ing has been temporarily stored in a single "mixer" situated at the end of the furnace line. This mixer was recently removed and sent to England for installa tion at the Ford Motor Company of England's new manufacturing plant at Dagenham, near Lon don. It is being replaced by twe huge storage mixers of the bar- re! type, each of 500 tons capa city, equipped with the latest type of safety air return en-

gines.

AEROPLANE FOR CAR.

History Was made in America recently when an aeroplane was traded in on a Duesenberg car.

Aero- 'planes being so costly, few dealers could find it possible to make such a trade, but the-Duesenberg line of cars rance In price G.$16,000,

up

STANDARD "BIG NINE."

to

on furniture and household effects, £2 la. 9d. on farm imple monts, farmers' supplies, etc.. 185. 3d. on jewellery, 18s. 3d. on radio and 148. on tobacco.

Amazing Figures.

These figures are of course. Laced on every man, woman. and! child in U.S.A. It is of interest to compare the relative exnendi- ture on automobiles and radio, the former being £16.14s. Od., as against 188. 8d. spent annually on wireless.

The amazing part that motor- ing activities now play in the life of the American nation is strikingly told in the fact that, next to food. the greatest expen- diture is on automobiles. A'1 told, the 253.322 ontlets for automobiles and thrimantinia annually sell over £1,909,000,000 worth of products ne noning! by 497,715 stores. food sales totalling £2,260,000,000

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retail stores for the nation is The mercentage of food sales Sir Malcolm Campbell's

of exnenditure on A

auto- years aro it mahilan 19.08 per cent. of total

a steady retail sales.

It in interesting to note that

Views.

According to Captain Sir Campbell, who is

The Standard "Big Nine." is the larger of the two four- cylinder models introduced by the Standard Motor Company 92.6 per cent, while the vercont- for 1982. Since this car was first Two sets of double-beamed introduced some scales so finely adjusted as to has been undergoing weigh from a few pounds to 100 process of improvement and re- tons will support ladles into finement, with the result that the 124 000 petrol Alling statione Malcolm which molten metal will, as the car does not merely keep up in TIS A. do a begins of nearly motoring editor of The Field, needed, he poured in measured with the fashion, but is rather go on0,000 pnnually, whereas the automobile industry gains amounts from the mixers ahead of it. These ladles will then conduct the This undoubtedly is an attrac- houses have

135.600 restaurants and eating- pig iron to the open hearth fur- tion, when allied to the depend. 479,000 000. These figures are learned by Britain's aeroplane

turnover

of enormously from the lesspha nace to be refined with the molten ability secured from a good de- indeed striking. and, in a lesser manufacturers. scrap taken from

the 400-ton sirn which has proved its dura- degree, apply to-day throughout scrap into steel of the desired eteristics of 1931 have been reportation is one of the key act-motorist, "but at the same time furnace and other miscellaneous bility by time. The main char- the world, because motor trans-"Weight means so much in analyses and types.

tained in the 1932 models, while vities in modern life.

the air," said the famous considerable improvements and additions have been effected.

Ford engineers -point out that the installation of. the giant fur nace will lower the cost of opera- The "Big Nine" is a car which tions by reducing the difficulties meets the needs of the family. attendant upon the handling of man-to-day, with a roomy, well- scrap on the smaller scale now equipped four door body.

in practice.

Boilers with a combined capa

city of more than 1,100 horsë

power will take advantage of the

ULSTER GRAND PRIX.

strength must not be sacrificed at any cost. We find now that the latest metals employed in aeroplane work give the neces- sary strength with the minimum of weight, and already this practice is being employed in modern car construction. Fifty-seven veteran motor-cars has aluminium cylinders with "We find that the modern car

COMMEMORATION RUN.

Veteran Cars On Brighton

• Road.

waste heat coming from the new In the Ulster Grand Prix, S. took part in a run to Brighton, in cast iron liners, also in many furnace to generate steam which Woods, who came in first in the celebration of the emancipation of cases duralumin connecting rode will be used in powering a thou- 500 cc. class and made the re- the motorist from the era of the are now being used instead of sand-ton shear operated to cut cord lap at a speed

of 89.67 red flag and speed limit of two steel, and all this means a great heavier types of scrap or be m.p.h. rode on Dunlop tyres as miles per hour diverted to the main steam lines did L. H. Davenport who was Many of for general plant purposes. The first in the 850 c.c. class.

the drivers wore predict that the future will saving in weight. I venture to new furnace is of the tilting type, Cuthrie who made the record lap fashion at the borinning of the

J. clothes which were the height of Bee our large weighs slightly less than 2,000, of 88.29. m.p.h. in the latter centery. The record for age was at the outside, instead of the weigh- ing 15 cwt.. to 20 cwt. class used the Dunlop waterproof held by a car built in 1894, saddles as well as Dunlop tyres.

present 85cwt. to 2 tons, and

000 pounds and is equipped to be fired with gas, oil or tar.

AGED 97, HE DRIVES HIS OWN CAR.

cars

Mr. R. S. Shuttleworth, of that the baby type of vehicle A. E. Perrige won the Motor Biggleswade, whose son owns ten will turn the scale at under Cycle Trophy for the best per veteran cars and had three enter formance in the West of Eng- ed in the rum, spent over seven land Trial on a B.S.A. machine hours on the trip, and for her

"This reduction in weight, will| fitted with Dunlop saddle and Spartan coaxing of her thirty-one mean a saving in prime cost, a aged 97 and 91, have left home on tyres. The Hosking Trophy for years old car to the finishing gar-great reduction in running costs, 1500-mile motor-car trip to the best performance in the op- axe was given a special certificato as well as a far more efficient all- nosite class was won by W. G. by the R.A.C., although she arriv. round performance, power to They have been making this trip Waycott on a Rudge.

Mr. and Mrs. El Dusenberry,

Florida.

to their Winter home at Daytona Beach for more than 10 years, and Mr Dusenberry always drives,

They never leave until after eloc flon day, for Mr. Dusenberry has not missed's vote since he cast his first ballot for Abraham Lincoln.

They will celebrate their 70th wedding anniversary on New Year's

hundred miles by Is The missus: doesn

MUST EXCEED 40 M.PH.!

After a month's trial, a speed Hmlt of 40.

hour-enfor

has

*Sundays on

ed fifteen minutes Tate. Her son weight ratio being the determin- whs one of the lucky 42 who ing factor. It does not neces Bnished within the allotted time. sarily mean that because a car A 1908 car, still,capable of sixty is light that it will not hold the miles an hour, entered by Mr, road when driven at high speeds, A. H. R. Farkian, was the first to and to prove this I have only to reach Brighton at 11.37 am A point out that the mod moment afterwards a 1904 car, ing car that is capable which for three aza was "parking appeds of

ed in an orchard

Mr. F. Randall

C.Whit

er, burst into flame

were being pref

arrived with 115 to 180.

heeling thing in; the

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A NEW SPIRIT

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