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MOTOR NOTES.

U.S. AUTOMOBILE ALLIANCE.

STUDEBAKER AND PIERCE- |

ARROW COMBINE,

A CENTURY AGO.

THE HONG KONG

GIRL'S BIRTHDAY CAR CRASH.

DAILY PRESS. WEDNESDAY, MAY 22, 1929.

-YEAR-OLD MOTORIST SUES

FOR DAMAGES,

A seventy-three-year-old motor- evelist, Mr. Douglas S, Campbell, TROUBLE FROM SPEEDERS of Woodcote Road, Wakington,

IN OLDEN DAYS..

rought an action, before Mr. Justice Horridge and a special There were trafic troubles and jury, in the King's Bench Division tolls and joy riders one hundred against Miss Ida F. Allman, of

Smithemsdown years ago when the motorcar and from whom he claimed damages Road, Coulsdon, bicycle belonged to the far future, for personal injuries received in a and the Iron Horse" and train were gazed upon in curiosity, says collision with Miss Allraan Fietor the American Motorist, official pub-ar. The accident, he alleged, was Hention of the American Automo- duve to Miss Allman's negligent

driving.

Formation oi the Studebaker Pierce-Arrow Export Corporation is announced by A. R. Erskine, Pre- sident of the Studebaker Corporabile Association. tion and chairman of the board of'

The A.A.A magazine" states that the Fierce-Arrow Motor Car Com- newspapers of a century ago were pany. The new corporation will filled with stories of traffic mishaps conduct affairs and direc: the sales and careless drivers of stages...

"Back in the days when great, of Studebaker and Erskine passen-

grandfathers rode, the ger and commercial car and Pierce-authorities took serious counsel of Arrow automobiles in the overseas such things as speedsters, road

hogs, joy riders, drunken drivers and of how females were enticed from their homes by the lure of the stage coach and how pedestrians on injured by recklessly driven wheel the sidewalks were too frequently barrows," continues the journal.

Collegians and other young men

markets.

This comibnation brings together two of the oldest firms in American industry, with histories ante-dating the automobile era. Buth Stude baker and Pierce-Arrow are pica- eers in the manufacture of auto mobiles, building their first care in the early years of the twentieth century.

Officers of the Studebaker Pierce Arrow Export Corporation are: P. G.. Hofman, Chairman of the Board; H. S. Welch, President; J.

L. Overlock, Vice-President; E. E. Dalton, Secretary; E. L. Lalumier, Tasurer. Because of their experi- cnce these men are admirably suited for. the positions they occury.

The Two Plants,

great,

not infrequently, are brought into of the present era of jazz and speed, court for fast and reckless driving and are fined or lectured therefore Just one hundred years ago, ne- cording to a journal of that time, the idle and effeminate young men of the larger cities should have fol- of January, 1899, to wit: lowed the example of a speed bound

A young gentleman of Cincinnati Cavelled from Nashville to that city, a distance of 350 miles, in three days and a half! This is an example worthy the emulation of and effeminate young men of our the thousands of idle dissipated large cities, who pay more for horses and carriage hire than their services to the world will ever be worth.'

Another item of 1820 says! During the past week seventy-five persons were brought before the police of Philadelphia and either committed or fined.

Car as Present,

fr Doughty, K.C., for Mr. Campbell, said that Miss Allman was twenty-one years of age, and was presented with the car on her birthday, a few weeks before,

The accident occurred at the corner of Woodeate Road and Woodmansterne Road, Wallington: Mr. Campbell, on his motor-cycle, was caught by the back of the car, Mr. Campbell sustained a ime

bone was broken, and two opera ture of the ski, his right collar tions had to be performed. When he retamed from hospital his wife was so upset concerning he injuries that she fell downstairs and died shortly afterwards.

TRANSMISSION DEVELOP

MENTS.

NEW VERSIONS OF OLD IDEAS,

were

The

GERMAN MOTOR-CAR

INDUSTRY.

INCREASING AMERICAN..

CONTROL

The first fruits of the recent ac

quisition by the gtest American trust, Geners! Motors, of the con- German motor manufacturing con- trolling interest in the largest

CYCLIST'S FORTITUDE.

RODE 60 MILES WITH BROKEN LEG.

A motor cyclist, Alfred Blaker, who fell of his machine rode about 20. of Edgecliff-road, Woollahra,

60 miles with a broken left leg.

Blaker was riding his machine

Some miles from Liverpool, ca the Great Southern-road, he collaps- ed, and the Ambulanco conveyed him to the Liverpool Hospital, where it was found that he had. sustained a broken leg...

At the present time, while the production departments of the car factories are striving to keep to time with deliveries the experi

from Goulburn to Sydney, and mental staffs are equally busy,

cera, Opel's, aro Ken in a when near Mittagong the eyele Lheir concern being the testing and

announcement, broadcast through-skidded and he fell off His log development of new ideas for 1830. 30 years old in essentials, remarks papers today, of sweeping redue his journey.

out Germany by means of full-page seemed numb, but passers-by helped The gearbox used to-day is nearly advertisements in scores of news him to remount and he continued The Motor; the free-wheel mechan- tion in the prices of the already ism is much older, and yet only very cheap Opel cans. The range of serious attempts Opal "" models, for instance, recently made to combine the two for use which formerly sold at prices on cars. This is one development grading from £181 103. to £167, are of first-class importance and many reduced to £107 10x-160. This is, motorists will be trying the comapparently, the first move-in the bination for the first time during campaign to epan up and capture the coming summer season, idea of using two clutches, one be the small car market. It is report- bind the engine and the other bed that the German daughter com hind the gearbox, has also been which recently raised its capital is pany of the Chrysler Company: resuscitated quite recently, and to enlarge its German werks and any experiments are now being extend its sales organization. Thus, made with various types of mechan the third largest American group frictional, self-engaging and joins General Motors and Fords in so forth for the rearmost clutch.

Thirdly, there are the adherents German market.

the intensive struggle for the

self-adjusting bands and electro-into the relative progress made by of the epicyclic principle who are

The Börsen Courier recently ear using various elaborations, such as

zied out & statistical investigation magnets, to improve a class of the German and foreign automobile mechanism that has been known to industry in the Germen market. engineers for many years. tionally there

are: modifications galore to the orthodox gearbox Several quite promising infinitely variable gears are also being test

Evidence was given by Mr. Camp. bell, who, when asked if he had given up motor-cycling, said, ed. have; most decidedly."

Mr. Campbell, a man of seventy the skull, among other injuries, three, received a fractured base of and there is no doubt that he had bad time. He had made & won derful recovery, however it is per. fectly marvellous,"

Mr,

Judgment was given for Campbell for £100 damages, with costs.

SPEED LIMIT OF 35 MILES.

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Among the SCHEME OF SCOTLAND YARD:

Of the two companies, Studebaker is the larger, having actual assets of $105,000,000, and manufacturing plants at South Bend, Indiana: Detroit, Michigan and Walkerville, Ontario, Canada. The major por tion of Studebaker manufacturing is done at South Bend, where factories cover 125 acres, containing more ench for using wheel-barrows should be a general speed limit of than six million square feet of floor, foot pavement; one person space. In addition an 800 acre fined $3 for driving at an im-thirty-five miles an hour for ears, proving ground is owned by Stude-moderate rate, and one fined 95 with a limit of twenty miles in baker, where cars are rigorously with costs, for riding on the foot-specified places. teated,

Pierce-Arrow plants are located at Buffalo, New York, its factories covering 45 acres with more than a million, and a half square feet of floor space. Pierce-Arrow's growth dates back to 1901 when it intro- duced its first petrol-propelled "car. In 1904 the company announced a

number twenty-five were for intoxi cation; four persons were fined 82

way."

DEATH DIVE IN CAR.

DRIVER DROWNED,

Was

Scotland-yard suggests that there

The suggestion was read to the Transport Commission recently by Mr. Herbert A. Tripp, assistant secretary at Scotland-yard.

"While there were twenty-eight murders in London in 1998," said Mr. Tripp1,237 persoas met sud- den deaths following street ac

A saloon motor-car with a maneidents. A large proportion of the if the conduct of the drivers and sole occupant accidents might have been averted

pedestrians had been less unre gulated and irresponsible.

be

Tour-cylinder automobile, which was in plus fours as followed two years later by the in-plunged into the River Clyde, when troduction of a six-cylinder model. it was driven on board the ferry The immediate success of the com- boat which.

crosses the river to pany while producing these models resulted in the formation of the ident:ied later

The driver, who was Glasgow.

It is of the utmost importance Pierce-Arrow Motor Car Company McGee, aged twenty-nine, of Hynd- asked to

As Mr. Walter that the police should not in 1909. An even greater era of lands, Glasgow, was drowned,

enforce any speed success followed and in 1016 the

limit save with the approval of The ferry boat, was embarking public opinion. At the same time, various holdings of the company vehicles and passengers at were consolidated under a new cor- Renfrew side, and

the the police would wish to see public poration carrying the same name.

were opinion take notice of the increas already a aumber of motor-cars on ing toll of life.. Headquarters of the Sindebaker hoard when a saloon car came Pierce-Arrow Export Corporation down the slipway at such a speed limit altogether would be something "To abolish the general speed will be maintained in the Stude that the driver was thable to pa of a leap in the dark. In view of haker administration building in up. The car smashed through the South Bend. No major changes will closed gates at the river end of the present casualties the moment. be made in the policies heretofore the boat and immediately sank.

does not seem opportune." followed by the Studebaker export corporation, but expansions will be made in the various divisions.

these

about to happen, raised the ferry's A ferrymau observing what was

This, however, did awing board The new alliance between the two not prevent the car from going companies strengthens the dominant overhoard. It is believed that the positions each has held in the in- driver, owing to nervousness, had dustry. It covers the entire motor pressed the accelerator instead of market, and opens new possibilities the braice. for both Studebaker and Pierce- Arrow dealers.

Building plans are already under way at the South Bend works that will give additional space and make possible even quicker shipments to overseas markets. Special attention has been and will continue to be paid to facilities for any specific boxing requirements of individua! manrkets.

New Administrative Arrangements. One of the first steps toward placing the expanded organisation of the new corporation into effect is the naming of regional managers..

FORD MOTOR COMPANY.

COST OF PRODUCING THE

NEW MODEL.

Divers afterwards carried out 2,000 people. The motor car was chusetts Commissioner of Corpora dragging operations, watched by The report made to the Massa eventually located and raised to tions shows that it cost the Ford the surface.

Motor Company-which is Henry When the motor-car was swung Ford, his wife, and their son, Edecl on board the divera' McGee's body

boat Mr.-considerably aver, $100,000,000 huddied up in it.

lying (£20,000,000) to reorganize its plants for the manufacture of the ner model car to replace the famous Fliever." :

WILL seer

AN INTERESTING RAIL -

'MOTOR COACH.

These men will be in charge of large The Fiat Company of Turia has, territorial divisions. They have recently introduced an interesting been carefully selected on a basis ruil motor coach equipped with a

proper manner.

"

The report showed that the proft and loss surplus at the end of 1929 was $592,629,563 (£116,536,000), which was 872,921,498 less than that shown at the end of 1927, which in turn was 842,796,727 less than the surplus at the end of 1926. It is not believed that the stockholders

of experience and ability to repre- six cylinder vertica! Diesel engine withdrew any dividends in the past sent the new organisation in a developing 180 horsepower, which is two years, though there is nothing These men have used to generate electricity and in the statement to show whether had years of experience with Stude- drives the conch through electric or not this is true. baker and have personal acquaint-mutors coupled to the axles ance with the dealers and distribu-This self-contained unit is very tors they will assist.

much more economical than either

Experienced service representa- steam or electricity on lines having tives will be stationed in the dif. comparatively light traffic. There ferent territories in the world. A is no costly installation, as in the closer relationship will be establish case of electric traction; the Diesel "ed between men in actual charge of engine requires only one driver, service stations all over the world and there is, not a big dead weight

of fuel and water, and the factory.

MAN KILLED.

'COMPANION, SERIOUSLY

INJURED..

The production department will be kept familiar with the particular requirements of each territory in the export markets. A complete line of open car models built special ly for export territories where open cars are largely in demand is being an ordinary tramcar: The weight returning from Mount David, and released immediately ent in full running order is 44 tons,

Organisation of this new corpora- the maximum speed is 36 miles per when approaching a railway cross tion comes at a time when the ex: bout, and the maximum gradienting the car skidded. The driver port business of both manufacturers that can be climbed with a full was unable to get it under control, is at a high mark. During 1025, load is 1 in 25.

and it turned over. Murray was Btudebaker sales Win overseas Tests carried

thrown against the bodywork of the out under working markets were 41 per cent. greater conditions showed that this, new and received injuries to his "than for the year 1997. Because of cuck con five times tear to work head. He died almost immulistal

the great success met by Pierce than a steam train of similar Barcher is suffering from concus Arrow in the United States, it is

sion and a fractured rib, t expected that export sales will mount rapidly.

over the buffers, it accommodates turned near Oberon this afternoon, The couch is nearly 60 feet long Orange.-When a motor-car over- 58 passengers, has a luggage comEdward Murray, a well-known and a lavatory. It can be driven and Raymond Burcher, an Oberon partment, a postal compartment, Oberon district resident, was killed, from either end by one man, the grazier, was severely injured. controls being similar to those of

Messrs. Murray and Burcher were

A

capacity, so that a frequent service can be maintained at a compara- tively low cost.

Murray, who was 35, is survived by Mrs. Murray and six children..

Addi-

of all these activities is by no At the present time the outcome

safely buy and use new cars with means certain, and motorists may out fearing that a sudden discovery may render them obsolete. It is, however, clear that the car manu facturer now concurs with the view which we have so often expressed, namely, that in the modern car, with its universal appeal, a piece of apparatus so difficult to handle : as the orthodox transmission is sadly out of place. The line of ad- vance tends obviously to lie in the adaptation of existing and known mechanisms rather than in the pro- duction of entirely new, systems.

IN MEMORIAM.

Joe didn't listen, look of stop! They dragged his fivver to the shop.

It only book a week or two To make the car look good as new. But though they hunted high and

low 4

They found no extra parts for Joc

It stated that the number of for eiga cars imparted into or, assem bled in Germany in 1998 was 25,763, ns against 13,776 in 1997, 40 in- crease of 89 per cent. The home .production in the same period in- 75,768 to 78,610, the surplus of creased only by 5 per cent., from

larger. These figures do not, of unsold care being relatively much course, allow for the profit accruing to foreign firms bolding part or controlling interests in nominally German concerns, such as Opel's.

.SOME SLEEPER-COACH

CONSIDERATIONS.

DYING TAXI^ DRIVER.

TRAGIC EARLY MORNING INCIDENT IN WHITE-

HALL

mind was an outstanding feature A. dying taxi-driver's presence of of a tragie incident in Whitehall. Siverhall-street, Isleworth,

George Bripd, aged 65 of 27, driving his cab, when opposite the Home Office, he was suddenly seized with illness.

was

He was able to pull up and call a policeman, who summoned an ambulance. When it arrived oxygen was administered to Brind by the attendant in charge, who took him to Westminster Hospital. It was there found, however, that be was dead.

STREETS AS PLAY- GROUNDS.

most

With the coming of the longer sleeper coach is a question which is are appearing in full force in the What are the prospects of the evenings, children with whip topa being asked on many sides. present it is one extremely dificult towns

At poorer neighbourhoods of

These youngsters create a to answer, says The Commercial great danger, both to themselves

discontinued, also the public in Motor. Well-designed vehicles are and to passing traffic. One cannot both in use and under construction, altogether blame the children, for whilst at least one service has been they are quite young, and those of general has not yet had any ex

us who can remember being under perience in this form of transport, sympathize with their enthusiasm, the spell of a spinning top, can

actually travelled in this manner tirely the numbers of persons who have neither can the blame be laid en- being comparatively insignificant.

on the parents; their children must play in the open air the appearance of the sleeper-coach near-by parks, the only place is the It is somewhat unfortunate that and, in the absence of gardens, or

practically coincided with the pro-streets. It seerns, therefore, that modation on the "railways. vision of third-class sleeping serom the danger will continue to crop The up annually for some years to being, perhaps, slightly in favour all to take special care when fares are approximately the same come, and it therefore behoves us of the coach, but there can be no driving in poor neighbourhoods at comfort afforded. We have utilized in The Light Car and Cyclecar that comparison between the degrees of this time of year. It is suggested

both means for night, travel and prefer that by road, although we must admit that a light sleeper would have to become accustomed going on about the latest rise in and the varying notes of the engine," In the discussion that has been to the noises due to gear changing the price of petrol too little atten. whilst it is essential to lie in the tion has been directed to the fact right position, otherwise, when the that the motorcycle is the most vehicle passes over any serious road economical of all vehicles, Bays inequalities the effect. the Motor Cycling. Actually, the in-digestive organs is apt to be dis- crense does not really mean very comforting. much to many of us, whereas the car owner, even if he runs quite a small vehicle, has been badly hit, at any rate if his income is on the small side.

THE PETROL RAMP.

So great, in fact, is the difference in running costs between the car and the motorcycle that the petrol ramp may well have the effect of making many car owners.pi moder. ate means take once again to two wheels or three.

on

YOUNG WOMAN KILLED.-

Wellington (N.Z.)-A motor-car containing four people crashed into

telegraph pole at the. Clock Tower, Christchurch, parly on Sun- day morning." Miss Maureen Doris Mitchell, 25, was killed, but the others in the car escaped serious injuries.

CHEVROLET

Now on

the only sala course when children are about is to proceed slowly and to be ready to stop instantly,

66 MILES ON 1 GALLON OF GAS.

WALTER CRITCHLOW 17750

WEBATOS, ILL. U.S.A., har patpatod a Vapor Moisture Gas Naver and Ostbon Eliminator for, all Autos and Engines that beats any ever got out.

Old

Ferda rerort as high as 60 miles on 1 gallon, New Fords 55.

Other

makes report amazing in-

cresses of tomore.

Mr. CatoLow ffers to send 1 to introduce. He also wants COUNTY and State AGENCES Everywhere to make $250 to 31,000 Per Month.

Write him in English To-day. W CRITOHLOW, 17780 ST., WEZATON, ILLU.S.A

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The

Outstanding Truck

of

Chevrolet History

A Six in the price.

range of the four H.K. $1,510.

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