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THE CHINA· MAIL, SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 20,--1949.

Let us arrange

Your Car for Home Leave

'HUMBER HILLMAN

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SUNBEAM-TALBOT

It is "advisable to place orders three months in advance

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GILMAN & COMPANY LIMITED

MOTOR DEPARTMENT

132 Nathan Road, Telephones 56789-58800

New Beauty for your car

JOHNSON'S

SPECIAL

Automobile

WAX

JOHNSON'S

S.C.JOHNSON & SON PTY. LTD. WORLD'S LARGEST MAKERS OF POLISHES

MOTORING NEWS AND VIEWS

ONE BRITISH-MADE CAR IS COMPOSED OF 6,000 PARTS

To the averaga motorist-even though he takes great pride in it—his car merely represents a reliable and speedy means of transport, Does he ever pause to realise just what a car repre- sents in terms of technical skill, experience and patience, in the tremendous design and pro- duction organisation required, the immense array of mechanical equipment needed-and in human terms the headaches (and the back- aches) which all together, made it possible?

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A car, in fact, is a symbol of, This stores department possibly the most complex in- virtually factory in itself. dustrial organisation In thermploys well over 200 men who world. It is a triumph of men or the best part of them in this bave spent their working lives and machines pitted against crude metals and raw materials which 'nce transmuted into something that moves (and in the opinion of many owners even has a 'personality').

Probably no produel in the world today requires such variety of materials or such wenith of parts,

Mony Metals

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^ car qulie obviously calls

for steel of various types but in

necessary.

business. Into, this focal point come all the thousands of com- onents that go to the making of successful fooles vehicias.

Here is one of the largest, best equipped and staffed in. dustrial 'departmental storda

in Britain. Every one of near. ly 10,000 items has to be in readiness in quantity for the production department which requires them.

While the car assembly lines require axles or red wheels,

addition many other alloys and the upholstery department urg- metals such es brass, un, copper,ently need clips or kupok or even lem, tungsten and chrome, ure upliulstery

tacks whilst the and the wider fold of materials, foundry cuils for metals

materials fur making castings wood, rubber, paints, chemicals and the machine shops the forged und glass (and now plastics) uro all essential substances Found off the list there are such

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Tests. For Valve Springs

chine,

Texting e new batch of valve springs with a special ma- This is one of the many activities which form a nor. mal part of the work in the Central Goods Receiving De- partment of the Rootes Group at their Stoke Plant at Cover- try.

Radio For Car And Home Use

A new car radio set, the Gads- bout, designed by the Motovia Company, of Timperley, Cheshire, can be removed from a car in a few moments for operating from any convenient 200-250-volt a.c. mains supply.

Basically the Gadabout is simf- lar to the normal Motovia post- war car radio set except that it has an inbuilt speaker and that it is made to slide into a ruck Instead of being secured directly to the fuclo. For mains opera- tian the set removed and a spectat mains unit clipped on. A separate on-off switch is incor- porated and provision is made for plugging in an extension speak-

er.

The Gadabout is n Rerceneit

four-valve superhet with recti-

fler. The vibrator can qusily be

AUTOMOBILE - SEAT COVERS

Smart!

Cool

Sturdy!

Inexpensivet.

Sleek!

Just name the CarWe have

changed for 6-or 12-volt opern-Crawford Coverà lo Bt every

tion.' Controls include a com-

bined on-off switch and volume control, and a tuning switch, the dial covering the medium wave- band only,

TRAINING IN CRAFT

Popular American, make.

EASY TO INSTALLI 2-door and 4-door Sedans.

Beautify your car!

with

WHITE WHEEL WALLS

Even the finest Car looks Flaer with these Lyon White Wheel Walls.

Latest of the motor industry frma to Institute n' training scheme for apprentless Is, Arm- string Siddeley. The scheme provides a five-year training in automobile eri aeronautical en- gineering and is open to boys of 10; applications should be made flireugh parents or guardians, or forence! headmasters, to the Apprentice Supervisor of the company. Younger boys may be admitted us probationers.

OLYMPIC PARKING

During the period of the re- cent Olymple Games, National Car Parks, who were responsible for the car parking arrangements, handled no fewer than 62,015 vehicles at Wembley alone. Cars, with a total of 48,444, constituted remove er the greatest number.

steel components that are to being the materiál la put on a inexperience has to struggle des- mechanically chiselled, cut, lung-conveyor in readiness for transperately either, to

ed anc polished Into gear-port to the production shop.

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heels.

xddities as sand and flour (used for ensilngs) Kapok, thread und

Such a store as this can carry of many varleiles. olts of

bulk of materials running well Unfortunately unlike the

into six figures In Pounds Ster- housewife, it is not sufficient

ling, and tonnage ranging up to even when all

all these basic maten thousand. terials are

avaliable to "put them in a bowl, stir- briskly and bring them slowly to the holl," or something like that.

Mechanised Store

Unlike ordinary departmental as they arrive matures,' 'goods'

cannot simply be placed

Each material in its turn bas to be given shape, sometimes to 1/10,000th of an inch and

Centrul

Counting By Weight

Every incoming consignment, for upholstery, whether hides rubber engine mountings or cain shafts In their forged state, have to be checked, classified und placed appropriate bins and documented.

With large items counting is But how would an easy matter.

ordinary man, deal with

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Humbers tain large

of small

replace a tyre cover on a wheel, this section is a revelation.

Every 40 seconds each man has fitted a tube and tyre on a wheel and the inflated wheal Опа Is passed to a conveyor. expert for example, who has done this job for the past 18 усять сем now take pride in the fact that he had 'tyred'

1,800,000 wheels.

or

by

So next time you look at your car give a thought to all that lies behind it, for it was designed and produced by superb plan- ning and organisation. Before it reached you, in some way

13 be other. was worked on Obviously these cannot counted manually. The method thousands of men each giving of adopted by banks in checking their own technical skill and ex- of and perlence

employing value of bags of colne la om-

On ployed hero.

special machinery on a big scale-a fit- scale, the weight of one hun- ing tribute to the resilience and dred of these parts is taken, enterprise of the Motor Industry and by computation the full in Britain today. quantity le established.

so designad that it will dovetail counters or stands, nor can they 11FL with all the other places in thee allowed to spraw? haphaza-new consignment which accord- rdly to take up an enormous and ing to the invoice should ton- vast jigsaw of production. To be able to order and stureconomic floor area.

lr: 3936, the Rontes Group parts. such a vast array of parts is no

history by mechantaing mewn feat and calls for superb medle

Goods Receiving organisation sach of the thou- this

devised sands of parts are at alt times Department. The system to be available to the army of

was to lodge incoming materiais in

steel bins. The standard size men engaged in production.

In simple

6,000 such

bing were stacked 15 feet high terms,

In metal racks so that they look- iteins means Onc more

British ed like weighty books on library ninde car for home or export ure shelves and the floor, was taken 5,999 Jiems anly means an un- finished cur and yet another G-uppeared to be enormous child- up by a series of stacka of what duction hold-up. Yet the mlas.

ing' part may only be a bolt ren's building blocks intersected valued at a fraction of a penny! by 'roadways." By this method'

So the stores doparíment. to a manufacturer is what an arsen- ̄al ̈is ̃to ̄on“ army.

Rootes Group

Let us take a peep at such an organisation-the Centrul Goods Receiving Department as it is called-of the Rootes Group plants at Coventry.

BUICK

ASK THE

MAN WHO

OWNS ONE

In a plant like this where sh many kinds of materials have to

You'll be amazed at the

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A consignment of crankshaft forgings, being, moved by crane to a storage bin. These form just one of the 10,000 items In the Rootes Group store of motor parts in their plant at

Coventry,

up" to Reven toss of materials, befabricated, some of them in could be accommodated. Ir one an unanished state-such us 'steel square yard of floor area,

forging for gears, the quality, ps Obviously 2man cannot well as the quantity has to be mount a 10 feet ladder to bring meticulously assessed. down a bin, from the top which

might contele a quarter ton of Stco components have to be particular components: A proved to be flawless and of the now form

orm of mechanisation right tensile strength. Precision was introduced to handle these parts, ready for Installation on bins, in the form of crane Rrrival, have to be tested for an tike device which ran on over. accuracy of up to 1/10,000th of head ralls and which carried on inch. Among the many delen-

(a cabi the driver in a

which inet; 03 tiné instruments The cab housing the operator inspectors is, for instance, a new Han space to carry one bin an electrical Instrument which can Hine, and manoeuvres in and out give instantly the exact,diameter of the roadways up or down of a valve, at four different Kronika "bin, at ground: - lover to places."

one 18 feat up the metal senfold-

Ing. Whenever in particular bin

Is required, the cab moves round

Quick Fitting

until it in, alongside, grapples An out of the ordinary section

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and, bruis the his inelde the cab is that where types and tubes are 1, QUEEN'S BLDG.

und then transports it to lihe Otted to the alcol, car wheels. To point at which, the bin confulae, a motorlat who,, because of his

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