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THURSDAY, MARCH 3, 1932.

MAMMOTH DAGENHAM

PLANT.

FOR EUROPEAN MARKET.

Ford's Enterprise in England.

Another great unit was add- ed to the world-wide Ford ac tivities a few days ago when the mammoth Dagenham plant of the Ford Motor Company, Ltd., of England, 18 miles from Lon- don on the Thames, produced its

first Ford car. The new plant

THE CHINA MAIL.

MOTORISTS THIS IS YOUR PAGE

TOURING MEMORIES

THE ROAD OFFERS ITS

PLEASURES

FOG

ADVENTURES

WINTER LAUNCHES ITS ATTACK ON THE CAR DRIVER.

[By G. B.]

When fierce gales and

sweeping) ernment mailcoach, claiming

giant crags Garda.

which

fringe Lake

Every hundred yards a huge loophole is blown through the wall of rock, and entrancing vistas|

PRESS TRAVEL BY FORD.

KING'S CUP AIR RACE.

Trimotor Plane Dashes Through Rain.

Photographers and reporters of blue water shimmering in a pear- who covered the recent King's ly air gladden the eye before the car Cup Air Race over a circuit of plunges into the next dark tunnel, the principal cities of England Then Milan, with its formidable travelled in traffic and confusing streets.

Home Again

a Ford trimotor plane, according to reports re- ceived by the Ford Motor Com- pany.

by

Back home, and duty calls to the far north. Arterial roads, down|

The course was approximate- which swirl the giant motor-coaches, ly 1,000 miles long, the British the travelling almost as fast as the ex-aircraft entries being flown when fully in operation will suprain keep the car in its shed the most hateful of all monopolies-the press trains on their steel tracks through blinding rain and very | ply Ford products to a large part mind turns back to the journeys of legal right to hug the inside of the a few miles to the right or left poor visibility. The contesting of Europe.

the past and dwells on the infinite precipitous shelf on mountain roads The sinewy driver, crouched over planes, entered by the principal The largest automobile fac- varieties of the road. In the and to ignore the normal rule of the the wheel in his peaked cap, watches British aircraft manufacturers, tory in the world outside of the blurred panorama of remembrance road... The engine glows with beat, road and mirror for the speed cops were flown in most cases United States, the Dagenham this drive and that stand out as dis- and the tail of the driver's eye who try to bind him down within Royal Air Force pilots.

On the last lap of the course plant occupies an

ares of 110 tinctly as a given operation in the scans the mountainside for some the speed laws. Along this road one

mind of a surgeon or a battle in the friendly stream whence he can fetch may even travel between house and from Bristol to London-the acres with an additional tract of thoughts of a soldier.

house faster than if one used the Ford plane, G-ABHF, carrying a There were water in his hat. 484 acres adjoining reserved for those two swift runs across France! And so at last out on to the special railways. The next journey points full complement of Press repre Autostrada of westward, and here the car uses an- sentatives as passengers, took expansion, and it has a frontage to the Swiss frontier, each accom- motor roads, the

across the clent coaching roads which have not off four minutes after the win- of nearly one-half mile on the plished on a car that was almost a Northern Italy, plotted

ruler in tedious yet been widened, into speedtracks. ner of the race, quickly passed Napoleon's old military map with a racer. Thames, permitting the receipt roads with their shading of tall straights. No traffic that is not Nor does one yearn for speed, be this plane and reached London of raw materials and the ship-trees are now a little wider than engined, no speedlimit, no crossings, cause the sleepy landscapes hold considerably in advance of it. ment of finished cars and parts when his legions marched them, and when it encounters railway or river the eye and historic towns slumber

the old gritty surface with its hue or ordinary road a bridge or tunnelļin by water as well as by rail.

of milky coffee has yielded, to the eliminates peril, and the throttle challenge all that

1 The assembly and manufac-all-invading tar. The scenery along pedal is kept pressed down. turing buildings are each 1,000 the direct routes is not exciting, and and there a mute, motionless chassis feet long and 300 feet wide, each dirty little French village is suggests that few designers build

a covered much the same as the last.

standard cars being separated by

to stand continuous railway court 80 feet wide. A Beyond this orgy of speed lie the unlimited speed. Out at the toll- 500-ton blast furnace, the first dangerous roads and the difficult gate at the farther end, and here of its kind built in southern cols of the Alps. The siren screamsa Mussolini is busy trying to solve his England, a 500-ton sintering repeatedly at the blind corners.unemployed problems and attract Gangs plant, a battery of 45 by-product | Vigilant eyes watch the dial of the the cosmopolitan motorist. coke ovens capable of carboniz- radiator thermometer, so neglected of out-of-works sweat on the roads, ing 800 tons of coal a day and at home. The crew bristle as they ciad only in a pair of shorts, their? a huge dry quenching plant are hear from the far side of a jutting brawny legs and torsos burnt dark among the unusual features of rock the triple pipe of the horn aienna by the pitiless sun, They the Dagenham works.

which marks the approach of a Gov- bore enormous tunnels through the

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THE AEROMOBILE.”

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Two German inventors have made

what they call

which Is "aeromobile," motor-car driven by an air propeller. The air screw-is not installed vertically how- ever, but lies horizontally on the back part of the chassis Above it are several parallel plane surfaces forming a sort of lattice-work arrangement, the angles of which can be altered. The air stream pro- duced by the propeller breaks through these surfaces, provid- ing the driving power. When the surfaces are perpendicular the car stops; when they lean back it moves forward; and when they are pushed forward the car moves backward.

hustling. Down into the combes of Devon and Cornwall, where the ear at last quits the tar and climbs with strident hooter through the deep lanes, Here true motoring: stili lingers. The twists of the road limit vision to a few yards. The driver must be as alert an a night patrol in No Man's Land, for danger lurks in every furlong. But his crew, if they trust him adequate. ly, can look overboard and revel in the eternal mystery of the road and the marvellous landscapes which bob up on either alde, curtsey and disappear, only, to yield in turn fresh horizons with new colour schemes.

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Then Autumn comes and brings the fog. The air is chill as we climb aboard, and though the road seemed wide enough when last our tyres trod I in full sun we are now. helpless upon it. The headlamps merely serve to hang 2 great dazzling screen of golden light a few feet ahead of the radiator, and out they go.. We change down to third-second-first. We are al most driving by the feel of the tyres. A front passenger has his window open and is anxiously bark- ing "Port a little". "Starboard a little," as he sights the nearside hedge through a'wet, veil of grey, Raucous mechanical hoots emerge from an opalescent yellow radiance ahead. He stops. We stop. Heads are thrust out, and anxious men in ault each other. Somebody dia- mounts. Both cars are on the road? : centre. De We disentangle, wobble round each other, and, grops" onwards,

Winter: Begy

And now Winter. The tyres spir and slide. Gently mowlakas settle on the wind

wiper freesen

|front windew In

The

33, Des Voeux Road Central.

flakes enter, and

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an historic inn. Waves of heat come dangerous. The tyres spin painted in dead hues-grey and emerge to welcome us as the oak ineffectually

the road rises black and dimmed white and door opens and admits us to a little against us. The brakes convert tarnished silver. Once more, yellow tones-dark our vehicle into a sledge when the light gleams out in a dark shadow, yellow light, road falls. The nearside wheels and we are home again.

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wainscoting and and red fire in the hearths, seek a grittier hold near the edge of To-night the world drips with and the scent of roasta and the gutter. The snow ceases to fall water and the gales howl like angry ale and tobacco. Colder still as the cold becomes king, and now flenda. The car les szing in its

is the Winter night as we troop out most folk.are abed, and we slither own heated house, and motoring is an hour later, and the gradients be-on in a world that seems dead and is abandoned for memories.

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