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WILLYS TO RETURN TO OVERLAND FACTORY.

FROM EMBASSY TÓ BOARD ROOM,

HONG KONG DAILY PRESS TUESDAY, JULY 5, 1932.

SPARKS

FROM THE PLUGS

hospitality and friendship I havs enjoyed there."

MARCO POLO'S TRAIL.

CONQUERED BY AUTOMOBILE.

HAARDT EXPEDITION FOL- LOWS 700 YEAR OLD ROUTE.

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STREAMLINE OF MOTORCARS.

· STUDY OF RESISTANCE, TURBULENCE.

ELECTRO-PLATED PISTONS.

USEFUL STUDEBAKER ·

INNOVATION.

CLOSER FIT AND NO

SCORING.

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Announcement that Mr. Willys had arranged to be relieved of his ambassadorial duties and that bo would resume actively his position as Chairman of the Board of The Willys-Overland Company, was" re- garded as an important and sig-

Detroit, Mich, May 1.-The nificant development in the future

streamline is quite definitely allied Toledo, John N. Willys, Am-affairs of the Company by stock- holders at the annual meeting hold bassador to Poland, who recently here.

Peiping, China-Marco Polo's with the future of the automobile. nocording to most au route, the hazardous trail taken by It will lead returned to the United States, after In a brief statement to the stock the famous Venetian traveler in thorities to the tear-drop" body. spending a few days with business holders, President Miller said: 1972, A.D. and for centuries one of

As a general rule, fay motorists concern themselves with mechanical friends and associats in Toledo and Mr. Willys decision to resume dangerous roads, has been finally

"We are particularly fortunate in the world's most difficult and design and a rear mounted motor.

Just how woon this departure will details of design and construction, New York; has arranged with Pretive participation in the affairs of conquered by the modern automo-be accepted by mass producers is Yet every owner should be interest- sident Hoover to be relieved of his Willys-Overfand. For more than a duties as Ambassador and will re-recognized an one of the most force. quarter of a century, he has been

A scientific expedition led by the question. Some say next year's ed in the pistons introduced by turn here to actively resume his ful and resourceful leaders in the late Georges Marie Haardt, famous automobile shows may include Studebaker in its new Dictator explorer who died soon after his model in the expensive range with Eight and Studebaker Six models. duties as Chairman of the Board automobile industry and his renow

ed active interest in the affairs of

arrival here, reached Peiping eat- of The Willys-Overland Company. Willys-Overland should have

ly this spring alter an amazing the engine at the rare. Othere do They are cast iron electro-plated. Mr. Willys has large investraente immediate beneficial effect which 8,000 mile journey from Beirut, clare it certainly will come by 184 with soft metal. This construction other will be welcomed by all of his at-Syria, during which it encountered Still another group holds it will be not only contributes to engine Willys-Overland in

difficulties and parils equal to those Toledo industries.

"In resigning his Ambassadar mot by its famous predecessor 050 live years before the automobile re-efficiency, but saves in engine main- aebes the goal, and then only tenance and materially prolongs the "After careful deliberation," ship Mr. Willys declared that he years before.

The Expedition travelled in Mr. Willys said, "I have decided had accomplished what he set out specially built, tractor-type Citroen through a series of logical stops in life of the car.

According to the Hong Kong that I should resign as Ambassado most important duty at this time care, over trails that were scarcely One fact is certain, and that is to Poland in order to be an help is to give the Company he founded pastable for camels or ox teams that the industry is paying more Hotel Garage, Studebaker dealer ful as possible in a business way the benefit of his long experience. For 5,000 miles, the cars had to attention to aerodynamic influences here, the electro-plated surface,

Mr. Willys has always enjoyed the be kept in low gear. In crossing than

Everybody's over before. during this difficult period.

utmost confidence of his Company's the steep passes of the Himalaya plant has an aircraft, engineer on which practically eliminates the Dealers and Distributors both here Mountains, they climbed to a new its staff. Designers are studiously possibility of scoring or piston and abroad and his renewed as sititude record for automobiles considering resistance turbulence

slap. tivities with the executive family 13,900 feet above sea level.

and drag, undoubtedly will be received by them with gratification.

+

and

“ I shall make immediate arrange ments to move back to the United,

States in order that I may be on the ground to take care of my vari-

sociates,

An

to do in Poland and feels that his

"Willys-Overland' immediate

ther that varied from 16deg, below In Northern India, they met wea. to 118 deg. above zero within a few

ous interests here and particularly and future plans are well establish days, while on the desolate plains

to be more active and helpful my duties as Chairman of the Board

advantage of any betterment in keep going for 52 straight hours, of The Willys-Overland Company, general business condition," simply because it was too cold to Part of the Expedition was cap. tured by bandits in Chinese Turkes

"During the years I have been

there is a foundation for future:

stop.

design.

**In design, and dimension, the Wind Tunnels Built

new piston is identical with the. More time is being spent in wind plain cast-iron piston formerly used tunnels, one of which is now under by Studebaker, but has a coating construction by General Motors‘at i Lockport. There is apparent a mad of soft metal one one thousandth of haste to patent and protect all rami- an inch (001) thick, which provides fications of the streamline. Many glass-smooth surface and pro- of the experiments would seem to motes frictionless efficiency between offer ammunition in the battle for

argumente in to-morrow's auto- design zights now looming as one of the most important competitive

mobile. on aerodynamic laws as applied to Some of the most interesting tests the automobile ure being conducted

block. Closer Fit,

the new piston allows of i fit twe "Beenuse of this protective layer,

one-thousandth of an inch (.002) clearance of less than half that closer than before, resulting in a formerly required with the old type

away, great strides have been taken when they reached Peiping. It is tan, but succeeded in making its have little value. But they will the moving surface and the cylinder j by the management of Willys believed that the Expedition has escape. According to officials of and rediteing costs, so that to-day this trans-Asiatic trail. If "Marco of winter Mobiloil, sent to no Overland in improving processes performed a real service in blazing the Vacuum Oil Company, supplies Polo's road" can be improved and sinfu, China had to be abandoned, opened for

regular automobils because when the Expedition reach plans that have great promise, but travel, it will constitute an imod there, it was in full fight be they will requiro constant attention portant trade artery. The immense fore the attack of hostile plains by all of the directors and execu-are waiting to be tapped. The Nine months were required to ing laboratories at Dearborn, Mich. opening of an easy road from Cen- complete this hazardous journey. This concern is headed by Mr. Wil "I leave my post. as Ambassador tral Asia to the cities of the Chin- Despite the difficulties encountered,iam B. Stout, one of the country's to Poland with great regret because ese Coast would have international the cars were in perfect condition three outstanding aircraft design of the many pleasant memories of "economic significance.

(Continned on Previous Column era, who built the original Ford tri-

tives of the Company.

natural resources of Central Asia men..

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Mr. Stout, now working in dependently, has characteristically taken the lowest-powered car-the Austin-for his ex-and a number of radical ideas on construction he is gathering murprising materials on the automobile.

One point Mr Stout brings op which does not occur to the normal observer is that an automobile may be perfectly streamlined for head resistance and yet can become at most unmanageable in a not un- usual crosswind.

Design Streamlined in All Directions.

"Drift takes care of the motor- boat and the airplane in a cross current," he says. "There is no drift with an automobile. Only a small part of the time it is heading directly into the wind. There would seem to be little advantage in streamline to reduce head re- sistance. If you are forced to build up, weight to hold the car on the road in a cross-wind, the design should be streamlined in all direc tions.

Mr. Stout forsees a further speedy spread of the streamline, and pre- dicts the rearmotored automobile by 1934.

Development of radical body lincs is, of course, an old súbject with automobile men," he says. "They confess the present-day ca inefficient, and xet logically, they argue that there can be no short outs in public acceptance. The process, they feel, must be gradual. People are buying appearance to day, not performance. And it is relatively simple to get too far -ahead of the parade.

There were encouraging signs in the 1032 care. The automobile industry had been in a rat. Now three are indications that the on- gineers are in the saddle instead of the antes departments. The sales man Has come to appreciate his en gineer. For that reason the pro gress of the automobile will be more apparent in the next few years.?"

Cars of the near future, Stout says, will be lighter. Motors now weigh 10 to: 78 pounds per horse- power. Five should be enough, he feela: Extreme gas taxes, horse- power taxes and waight taxes will have their effect. The increasing dangers of traffic must also be taken into consideration The lighter the car, the more comfortable.degó 10 In his disqussion Stout declared that the airplane has given more to the automobile than it has taken. He cited the multiple-cylinder en- gine, the new air wheel now obtain- ling favour, and at the moment the fstreamline.

piston (.0018 of an inch as against meter. For the first 50 hours, it 0033 of an inch). The treinendous was run at 800 engine revolutiona advantage of tighter piston per minute under conditions-simu- which will not score, even under lating travelling up a 10 per cent.. unusually severe conditions, in ob grade in top gear. At fifty bour intervals thereafter, the engine re-

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"Before giving their final ap-volutions were increased until they proval to this new piston, Stude- reached 3,500 per minute.

"This test is conceded to be one baker engineers subjected it to of the toughest to which an engine the most rigid laboratory, proving can be subjected, and far beyond ground and road tests. For 400 con- anything the car, would be called upon to endure in actual service. ancutive hours, a Studebaker motor, Yet at its close, minute inspection equipped with the new clectro of the pistous revealed little or no plated pistons, was operated with wear, and no sign whatever of scor- wide open, throttle pa a dynamo-ing."

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