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QUESTION- Why does the type

dominate the local Market?

ANSWER- Value - for - money.

MOTOR-CAR BODIES.

MULTIPLE WELDING

GIVES LOW COSTS.

MOTORING SUPPLEMENT. SATURDAY, OCTOBER 17, 1925,

take a little longer.

Sometimes only one bus bar is 6xed to, the frame of a jig. The other electrode takes the form of abar with a spade-like handlo, and is attached to a flexible cable. The A manufacturor is said to have operator holds the wolding ond slated recently that some time in against the work in much the the near future motor-car bodies same wayoq he would hold a would be made at a cost in pence pneumatic hammer.

In these various jigs the body where they now cost.pounds. The secret probably lies in the is welded into a substantial; rigid; mass produétion of the all-steel unit. In many cases lap joints body. As is well-known, M. are used. They are convenient Andre Citroen has taken up this to weld, and give greatest strength type of specialised, body, to fit his and rigidity. A strong joint of chassis, and it is not improbable this type is used at the body sills,! that other makers will follow his which aro .óf Z-section. At the example. The outting down of top there is a U-section, which is labour costs to the barest mini-also a lap joint.

Saloon bodies are not fitted with mum is making so important an advance that in the near future roofs at the Budd works. Those they might hardly be worth calare fitted at the car manufactur culating. All that is essential to ing plant.. Naturally, the carry- success is a sufficiently large pro-ing of steel across the tops of bodies is a practice hardly to be duction.

These ideals in production met- recommended. hods fall not far short of the In some saloon design the back the panel is fastened to the side panel, present achievements of Edward G. Budd Manufacturing with many closely-spaced bolts, Co., of Philadelphia. This firm the beaded seams being left in the has been producing all-steel body. In more expensive types American car manufacturers, as acetylone welding. The seam is well as a' loading Continental afterwards ground off, leaving a maker, fit Budd bodies to their perfectly smooth surface, as in chassis. Whon it is considered the practice with ordinary bodion. that a high import tariff has to be With the exception noted, the paid on these bodies, their cheap-fastening togothor of all body. ness as compared with the usual components is by welding

With the completion of all type of Fronch body will be fully realised. As many as 5,000 of welding the body is removed from these bodies can be assembled in the jig. If their passes to a con- veyor, along which the doors are jone day,

The development of special hung and the necessary finishing) welding practice has played a work performed. The fixing of the large part in revolutionising body-doors is done with great rupidity, building. Where several picces accuracy in press work and care. are, joined up in a sub-assembly in assembly and welding making | u miniature of the final assembly this possible. Hardly any hand jig is utilised. All'jigs, large or work is required in this operation. small, are mainly composed of At the end of the conveyor is.thol heavy steel. It depends upon the final inspection jig, which is simi- parts to be joined whether spot, lar to the final assembly, jig. are, or oxy-acetylene welding is Here a dammy roof is fitted on. resorted to.. Spot and arc welding and checks made to see that the are used mainly for lapping joints, body conforms to the specifiod The oxy-acetylene method is used dimensions.

Alex. Ross & Co., (China) Ltd. bodies, since 1912, and many the back seam is closed by oxy-

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whore seams, uced to be filled. The production practices for When the parts are welded to-the ellsteel body are much the gether,krinding operations are same as those for ordinary bodies. performed to ensure that the joints A saloon body passes out of each are as smooth as the plates them-final assembly jig every eleven minutes. A touring body comes selves.

Spot welding has virtually dis-through quicker still. The parts placed rivetting. At points where for the body arrive at the jig in light parts are attached to heavy four sub-assemblies-the front parts, however, the older mothod and back sections and the two still holds. An instance is when side panels. The press work has door hinges are attached to af to be of high quality and accuracy, for it is too costly to alter a part saloon body..

Small sub-assemblies feed larger so as to make it fit. Most of the sub-assemblies. In the case of presses used for this work have a some bodies as many as threu power of 700 to 800 tons... In hundred parts are needed. These some cases the maximum pressure parts might be divided up among) is as much as 1,800 tons. twenty-five sub-assemblies, and As with ordinary body work, theso in turn pass into five or the steel sheets are submitted both seven larger sub-assemblies before to straight and rotary shearing the final assembly jig is reached. The sheets then pass along to be Some of the jigs are very elabo-shaped. Finally they roach the rate. Those for the final assem-sub-assembly departments, where bly of saloon bodies are particul, the special welding machines are Jarly 80

so equipped as to ensure that On the contrary, the smaller nicoty in accuracy which sub-assemblies are joined on elec-generally associated with trin iuck welders. Here two chine-shop practice." plates can be fastened together With the all steel body the very quickly. The pieces rest on moving fronithe raw material to a stationary electrode. The other the finished product is rapid and electrode rises and falls on a continuous. The required floor movable arm, the action being apuce per body is unusually small. smilar to that of a needle in á An oil-spray, or sometimos a shoe-sowing machine. The oper-priming coat, is given to com- futor passes the metal plates along ploted bodies after final inspection in the same way as the cabbler as a protection against rust. By move his leather. The welds aro this time the bodies are close to a perfect, despite the rapidity with railway truck, on to which they which the work is done.

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The problem of problem of pro. steel ducing all-steel bodies at little In addition LO placing and more than scrap-iron price lies in clamping parts, electrodes, in the ability of the industry to the form of heavy copper eliminate the multiplicity of jige. bus birs, are incorporated. The ideal jig would be one in on these jigs. The oporator makes which the whole of the parts the necessary welds by resting going to make a body could be! This copper welding bar across one welded together simultaneously of the bus bars, and, using the This is regarded by exports

boing. by latter as a fulerum and the former as

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as a lover, brings the bar aainst impossible. The difficulty to be the point to be welded. At the surmounted is to equip a jig with same time the surfices are foroodhundreds of independent welding together. The weld is almost in- transformers. Up to the prosent! stantaneous. Easily accessible i hus, been found impossible to points can be welded by an expert make one transformer deal with workman at the rate of no per more than one wold at a time. second. Those less easily got at Manchester Guardian.

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An electric locomotive of record-breaking dimensions and new design has been built in the Ford shope to haul freight trains on the D.T. & L., the Ford railroad. The huge engine is 117 fost long and each ale is driven by a separate motor.

45 miles an hour and so great is its power that it will pull a train a mile and a half long,

1926

SINGER

1926

ANNOUNCEMENT

You

Unless you are one of a very small minority of Hongkong residents, it is probable that, in existing circumstances, you cannot afford expensive motoring, and even if you are among that fortunate minority, you would still like to reduce your motoring expenses by seventy five por cent. The way is open to you by becoming a "SINGER" owner driver, which will cost you a quarter of your big car upkeep and take you and your friends everywhere the big car can "with equal case und comfort and with the added satisfaction of handling the ear yourself. The Singer is designed for the latter purpose and simplicity and accessibility form its keynoto.. If you are under the impression that a light car is uncomfortable or ill suited to this country, we shall wolcome the opportunity of dillusioning you by practical demonstration may accept this, but still ask 'WHY particularly a "Singer "? We reply for the same reason that the South Kensington Museum are exhibiting a "SINGER" chassis as representative. of all that is best in BRITISH light car engineering, and again for the same reason that lecal SINGER owners (and their number is increasing rapidly, are unanimous in expressing their complete satisfaction with their cars. One of them recently volunteered the information that he was averaging 38 miles to the galleon. Do you appreciate the economy implied by this. If you want additional reasons, we would ask you to consider the advantages offered by overhead valve mechanism pressure lubricated), phoumatic upholstery with soli loather covors (riding on air-these in addition to all the usual modern refinemonts, such as re-inforced balloon tyres (Dunlopi, Jour wheel brakes, all weather equipment etc. - The first batch, of 1926 "SINGER" models is now en route for HONGKONG and we know. that, if you become a Singer öwner, you will be satisfied. OUR INTEREST IN YOUR CAR DOES NOT CEASE UPON PURCHASE, AND WE MAKE IT OUR BUSINESS TO SEE THAT YOU CONTINUE SATISFIED. To ensure carly delivery of a 1926 SINGER, place your order now. PRICES FOR EITHER TWO OR FOUR SEATER "DE LUXE" MODELS delivered' HONGKONG $2,200. Particulars of the new six cylindor 14/34 H.P. saloon model will be announced later.

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The fittest survive! Neither men nor machines, if they are unfit, can long withst nd the crushing strain of an exacting existence.

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The Valve-in-Head principle is the great reason for the survival! of Bulex motor cars. If this principle had not been correct, Buick, too, would have found it necessary to jump from one kind of engine to another in a ceaseless effort to find something that: would stand the grilling work a motor car is called upon to do,

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33 & 35

NEW COMMERCIAL AEROPLANE.

Des Voeux Road Central.

great convenience to commercial MOTOR TRANSPORT FOR air lines, enabling engines "to be

inspected without dolay, thus speeding up the service.

Other features in this machine

UNMADE ROADS.

Much progress is being made, motor A now design of commercial} fare a retractable radiator and an aeroplane is now under construc-morgoncy axit door in the roof in the production of tion in Amsterdam.

of the cabin. This door can be vehicles for travelling over crOSK This machine is designed by opened either from the inside or country and unmade ronds. Recently, Motor Transport record- Moiaheer Fokker, who is botter out, known as the.designer of fighting The machino, which is fitted ed the performance of G-wheeled

aircraft.

with a single 450-b.p. Napier and oreoper track vobicles in

A novel feature about this nero engine, will have a much trials organised by the French Fokker-Napier machine, is that greater useful load carrying cap-War Office, and in the US the engine bed is detachable, on-soty in conjunction with a contesto described a British-built abling the engine to be durable improvement in speed,

a winding goar, dotached by the removal of climbing and altitudo perform creeper track lorry provided with. four bolts. This will prove a ance.