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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH,

MOTORING SUPPLEMENT. SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 7. 1925.

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SURVEY OF WASHINGTON TRAFFIC.

(BY CHARLES P. STEWART)

Sept. 15. Major William E. R. Covoll, assistant to Enginoor Commis- stoner Jamos Franklin Bell of the District of Columbia, knows more about city traffic, afoot and awheel, than anybody in the world.

He has just finished a survey of it. in Washington, for the district commissionors, and for thoroughness it never was oquall- ed in history. -

While it was limited to the capital, most of the conditions it revealed are common to all big: cities, at any rate in the United States.

'Some time ago Congress pase- od a bill authorizing Washing- ton's various street car and autobus lines to morgo. Tho commissioners wanted to know if it were desirable to go ahead and morge them.

They had to find out all about traffic firat, to decide."

WILL FORD FLIVVERISE" THE AIRP

INTERESTING INVERVIEW BY ERNEST L. LYNN.

(Exclusivo to The Hongkong Telegraph).

Many reports have been cir- culated about the entry of the Ford Motor Company into tho field of aviation with a new alr

That was the survey's Gonesis. plane.. Covell was put in charge. He's The following interview was thorough by nature. He had granted exclusively to Mr. E. L. plenty of money-$50,000 to do Lynn, by Mr. Edsel B. Bord who a good job. And the despotic is the President of the Ford Com- form of the district's government pany, and we are able to publish provided him with an excellent it by special arrangonient. machine for bis work.

It is the first time that "an More pedestrians are hit by autos hotween 8 and 9 p.m. than authoritative expression of the at any other time of day or night. company's plans has been given.

"To-day," said Edsel B. Ford, Presumably this is because are on the threshold of a visibility is low, but hasn't been now and great industry, just es low long enough for autolets and 25 years ago the automobile in- podestrians to get used to it.

Besides, it's an hour when dustry was just beginning to most people are bent on pleasure open up."

I had asked him whether it and therefore careless.

Eleven to noon is the peak was true-as current report had hour for autos to hit fixed objects it that Ford had started the as their drivers are scooting manufacture of airplanes and was intending to "flivverise" the air. home for lunch.

But the rush hour is from 5 to "Ford is not making airplanse 6, because more people go home-not yet," said Henry Ford's to dinner than to lunch. That's son. It is true that an experi- when most autos collide. These ment has boon going on on Ford are some of the things Covell as-ground here at Dearborn, and certained.

several planes have been turned

How many auto owners always out.

leave their cars out all night ? "But got this straight-Ford Covell got the newspapers to didn't make those planes. The announce that, on a particular Stout Metal Airplane Co. made night, the police, would make them. There is Ford money be- roundup of all such curs. That hind it, but there also is money was to scare to cover all who in-from many other interested indi- dulged in all night parking only viduals." part of the time. That night he had the police make, not a round up, but a count.

"And if the experiment proves

a success?"

Above is one of the two "pro-

Out of Washington's 85,000f "Then, " said Ford, it is on- autos, they counted 18,000 home tirely conceivable that we will go loss cars. One policeman count-into the airplane business on a duction" models of the all-metal ed 170 on his beat alone.. big scalo. Whether this experi- | airplane manufactured under Ford

il

and

mail service. The other is on tho flying field in Dearborn,

When you talk to Edsel Ford you somehow feel certain that he has made up his mind definitely to go into the manufacturo of air- planes in a big way. Of course, he doesn't say so flatly. He ad- mits it is entirely possible, but ho makos no predictions.

But you fool that way because you find out ho knows so much about airplanes. He sat and talked such things as "lift" and load" and "strese" and "resist- ance until it is plainly to be seen that he has made a thorough study of aeronautics.

"

"Do you pin your faith in the all-metal plane?" he was asked.

"Absolutely."

"Why?"

"For the same reason that you have all-motal locomotives. They are rugged. Bosides there are no wiros and struts and projecting fuel tanks to offer big wind ro- sistance. Thoy are more efficient. Theirlift, is greater. Another thing, with an all-metal plane you don't need a hanger. How long would an ordinary plane with fabric wings laut if constant. ly exposed to the weather?

"Of course, the all-metal plano is more expensive than the other typo. We figure that, with big production, it might be possible to bring the calling price down to $5000. You'd hardly call that cheap. It wouldn't exactly be

flivverising the air."

HAS WORK TO DO. One naturally wonders whethor

Whon I asked Edsel Ford that he laughed.

If Covell hadn't scared the ment proves success or Dol, direction. If tests are satisfactory the success of Henry Ford with semi-homeless car owners in nd-there eventually will be Ford air- this plune will be the forerunner of automobibles has not inspired his Why not? We great Ford industry. Below, Bd. son with the ambition of some vance there'd, have been more, planes anyway. The policeman referred to made mako just about everything else, scl Ford, President of the Ford day carving his own name indo- libly on some other great industry a second count a few nights later, don't we? You know, we made Company.

-airplanes for instance. just to amuse himself. That time one airplane about 18 years ago he counted 507,

just as an experiment That's why there are so many ran it with a Ford engine." mangy looking autos in Wash-

WILL MAKE PLANES.. ington. sioners estimate that, in the ab So in a nutshell the situation sence of any scare from Covell, with regard to Ford airplanes is

just carry on. However, I'd 38,000 cars habitually spend i just this, according to Edsel

be foolish to say flatly that wo their nights in the street, which) Ford is not making airplanos yet,

According to Edsel Ford, the are not eventually going into the doesn't do an automobile any but will some day. Whether it monoplane will carry conserva- because it is in its infancy. I just airplane industry in a big way, good.

will be a plano like the present tively a 1,500-pound pay load and don't know yet." There's more of it here than "experiments" remains to be may be a 2,000-pound load at a elsewhere, because this is the seen.

speed of 100 miles an hour. "Would you like to?"

The district" commis-

7.

The Stout Mutal Airplane Co. is making all-metal monoplanes, Later on it will also make all metal dirigibles. Specifications for the latter are drawn and work is nearly ready to start.

"Well, the automobile field has not become saturated yet. There's plenty of big work here for me if

home of the government clerk, And if the all-metal plane does Several have been made, the last "Well, you can say I'm an who can't afford a machine, but

come up to expectations, then it two being the first production" aviation enthusiast. Oddly on- has one nevertheless."

is entirely likoly that the Ford models and embodying several ough, I've never gone up yet. Wouldn't you suppose that a street car, running along a regular organization will branch out in departures from the original de- You see, I promised niy wife not track, would be safer to ride in the airplane industry in a big sign. One of these now is being to go up until I had converted

tested in the United States air hor to my own views on flying, than a bus, ranging all over the way.

stroet? Such isn't the caso.

Covell found that a bus is twice

as safo as à street car.

When his report comes out it will mention a place in Washing.*. ton where the traffic congestion is worse than at Fifth avenue and 42nd street, New York.

His report will toll just how many Washingtonians ride inf autos, how many ride in stroot ears, how many travel by bus, how many walk. It will just naturally tell everything about) Washington traffic conditions that there is to be told...

If you wear nove glasses in Washington you don't get an autoj drivers' permit. You must wear spectacles, hooked over your curs. Nose glasses are too apt to geli knocked, and even to bounce, off It's a now rulo.

A now way of carrying the ex

tension light is on à recl, ab made up, by Chicago firm The rool may be mounted on the dash and any portablospot- light. attached. The cord is .12 fout long and la leasily wound up by hand,

MIRACULOUS ESCAPE FOR AUTO RACER

Whon Elmer Eitol, racing driver, crashed through the fence of the Tanforan race track,

San Francisco, his car turned over three times, but he escaped serious injury. Note the stretch of fonce Eitel took with him.

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