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DUEL OF MOTOR GIANTS.

Battle of Billions in Trade War.

THE CHEVROLET CHALLENGE.

Chevrolet Challenge.

MOTORING SUPPLEMENT.

EXPRESS HIGH- WAYS.

Private Roads for Speeding.

EUROPEAN SCHEME.

express

SATURDAY, OCTOBER

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the proposed highways would be oporated like railroads, along They similar rights of way. would be wide, of concrete macadam construction, would be tighted and marked by a fence or rall along the middle to separate traffic going and coming, and would be free from railroad or public highway crossings.

Viaducts would lead them over railroad tracks, and ramps would connect them with the government roads.

1927.

NEW ACCUMU- LATOR.

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Spanish Priest's

Invention.

It would not be easy to estimate the vast sums of money which have been spent, in different parts of the world, to try and secure an electrical accumulator of increased capacity. At last, it would seem, the problem has been solved..

electrolyte he uses a solution of zine' chloride chloride with other halogen salts.

The merits of the accumulator are numerous, Ita capacity is ton. times that of any other accumulator of the same weight, and five times that of another of the sam volume.

for highways,

Its charging-rate is 20 ampores - per kilo., as against 1 amp. per kilo. others. The

Initial charging is very rapid, for the velocity of absorption of the positive plato is high. In con- sequence there is no polarisation There is no danger of sulphating or of buckling the plates. The ratio of the quantity of electricity obtained from the accumulator to મમ the quantity supplied is 100 per.

cent.

Special privately built and operated, may direct tourists with speed and According to Automotive Indus- A battle of billions, in which

comfort to the principle cities "of tries, Italy was first to construct the general public will reap the

"Mr. Ford belatedly. realised Europe.

In November of 1925, a Spanish such private speed highways, benefit in lower automobile prices,

Some such private highways, on entled autostrades, after the name Priest, Fr. Almeida submitted to is being predicted by editors and that even a cheap motor ear must

are, exacted, are of the company operating them. the Directors of the "Akkumula- special writers following the un-be something other than a means which tolls nouncement of a new Ford model, of transportation. He is to meet already operating in Germany and These connect Milan with Lake toren Fabrik Company" in Berlin and reports of an approaching the challenge of Chevrolet with Italy, and more are contemplated Maggiore, Como and Varese. The his invention. They were so im- link between the Du Pont Com a new ear, for which the entire in these countries, Switzerland, owners contemplate their exten- pressed that they constructed

is. waiting. In the Spain and France, reuerts. Auto-sion to Venice and another line special laboratory to enable him pany, General Motors, and U. S. country

3 recent down the west coast of Italy to to carry out his experiments. Steel Mr. Ford it is said, will struggle of Titans which Ford and motive Industries in

Motors will presently issue.

Genoa. Florence, Rome, Naples From Berlin he went to Paris produce an entirely new car, and General

The report is based on a plan and eventually to Reggio at the tip where he experimented in the roll them out of his plants at the stage, will be much of the drama-

great Schneider laboratories. rate of a thousand a day, and tic appeal of a personal encounter. broached by M. Korm-Marsand of the boot. there is general talk that General General Motors is the corporation French highway engineer, for the Motors will follow with a lighter par excellence. It is impersonal construction of a special auto It is organisation in-road between Paris and Trouville car than any it now produces, and efficiency.

Cau Henry carnate. So there are the anta-an the north coast of at a lower price.

Ford and aThis read. built by private capital Ford, playing his lone-handed gnists-Henry

to Paris by their own automobiles.

Like Railroads.

Central Europe Linked. Germany has an express high- way, under privata control, be- tween Berlin and Charlottenburg.

to Vienna.

The other projects under way fare those of Spain, from Madrid to Iran in the Pyrenees and of Switzerland, from Basel to Zurich and Lugano.

The Almeida accumulator can discharged be overcharged.or without damago,

An International Almeida Accu- It is easy to see that nearly mulator Company has been formed every industry will be affected by with headquarters in London. the invention. An engine provided They hope to have the accumulator with this accumulator will be able run from 500 to 600 game, successfully buck General Colossus. of industry which is at a cost of about $37,000,000 and and is contemplating a network of on the market next year. Natural- to.

ly full detalis of the accumulator miles, without re-charging. The Motors, with its tremendously Planning, so rumour says, to en-operated under the toll system, such roads connecting the main will not reach us until it is ready moterist will find it an extraor→ strong financial ramifications ?" United States Steel as an ally would bring tourists landing at leities of the country and linking

He will have no for sale. Father Almeida says dinary boon. of asks the Columbus Ohio State in this war for the dominion of Travre, Cherbourg or any of the in with the private roads

Only a rash prophet other French ports nearby direct France, Switzerland and Austria that it is at once "neutral" and difficulty in starting and, once Journal. At the present moment, motorom..

"catalytic." The catalytic action started, a car of the light Renault according to n. United Press would predict the winner.'

is due to finely-divided silver type can run 500 miles without a [despatch, General Motors undoubt-

Ford, 'a Colossus.

which, in combination with a non-recharge. Many of the motorist's edly has gained a slight advan-

The Ford Company, it is point- tage. It is making hay while Ford

The plan is similar to those of,

active conductor forms the positive worries will disappear: he will electrode, A zine plate forms the have no gear-box, no radiator, no is equipping his plants to turn out ed out, also produced the various

negative electrode. For the maguete, no carburettor. On the other items which it uses in manufac-other engineers in Germany, Italy, the new model

automobiles. Besides, Spain and Switzerland, by which hand, we are told, "Ford is said turing to have made a 15,000,000 dollars notes the Houston "Chronicle" :--- advertising appropriation for the must be remembered that current year, and his friends be Henry Ford is the outstanding. lieve sales of the new model will automobile manufacturer of the go far toward overcoming any age. He has sold more cars than порго- slump the Ford Company may any competitor his even

ximated. He operates on his own have suffered in the last year."

capital; doesn't have to bother about bondholders or listen to stockholders. And it would seem Of course, remarks the

that he has plenty of finance of Columbus Ohio State Jourant, in" his own. He is still very much a second editorial. "Mr. Ford de- the champion' and General Mo- plores the possibilty of an autortora. the contender,' but the con- mohue trade war. But it is pretty tender certainly takes sure to develop." In the opinionomingus appearance, and of the Cleveland Prras and public may be treated to one of other Scripps-Howard papers: the really great industrial con-

"The nation is about to witnessflicts of the age."

Titanie Struggle.

the most titanic industrial struggle

in its history. Henry Ford and

his millions on one side. General Motors on the other.

Amazing Business.

on an AD the

Samuel Crowther, in "The Magazine of Business" for Au- gust. writes: "The public does "There is nothing to startle the it want to see Henry Ford go sterlens of industry in the an-down, not because his crash would national Bomerment of the coming battle being on a devastating between Ford and General Motors, It comes as the nitical result af years of parallel experiment and development of these two in- dustrial giants.

Strenuous Competition.

panic, but because they like him. He has created a business which is to-day, worth more than 1,000.- 000,000 dollars, and which started practically without cash capital, for of the 28,000 dollars subscrib- ed in 1903 a considerable portion The strenuous competition in was in promissory notes. There the auto industry in the past few has never been any outside financ- years has resulted in better carsing, and the company has never at lower initial and operating failed to earn a profit. In its costs. A glance at comparative first year it earned about 82.000 prices of a few years ago with dollars. For the years 1923, 1924. those of to-day shows that auto- and 1925 the profits were consi- 100,000,000 mobiles are not only better, bat derably in excess of

700,000,000 they are cheaper. If the competi- dollars. The company now has a tion of the past has brought such surplus of nearly good results there can be no doubt dollars, and has about 400,000,000 about the results of the impending dollars in cash."

fight for supremacy. Whatever happens ene thing is certain.

Du Pont and G.M.C. The Rochester Democrat and

The public will be highly bene Chronicle, among other details, fited."

takes seriously the rumour of an between Du approaching link Pont. General Motors, and U.S. Steel. It says:-

Ford's Competitor. "General Motors," writes Robert Denver, in the New York Eventag Pust, since the close of the wit has enjoyed a growth virtually un- paralleled in the annals of cor- porate history, and to-day stands as the biggest revenue producer of the world's great industry enter prises."

"The Federal Trade Commission proposes to investigate the ru-1 moured plan to bring the three greatest incorporated industries of our land, if not of our times, under the general control of one financial group. The three great According to the St. branches of current industry are Louis Post Dispatch:-"General steel, motors, and rails. Steel is Motors premiership as a money-probably our fundamental indus- maker is not unexpected. It has try, and the United States Steel for several years been driving Corporation is outstanding to It swiftly to that golden destiny in magniude and influence. The Moters Company is Steadily Fard's supremacy was General invaded. Into that lowest-priced equally pre-eminent in that field, held dominated by Ford, Chevrolet and its earnings this year are made determined entry. Back of sald to break the records of all Chevrolet was a vision which Mr. corporations except that of the Ford, for all his genius, did not steel company in one year of the The Ford prodnet was war. The Du Pont Company of possess.

which manufactures Chevrolet Delaware, solely utilitarian.

things, is aspired to beauty, as well as explosives and other

also immensely prosperous. utility.

GERMAN TRIALS.

Erskine Wins Novel Contest.

the Erskine was the only car to finish, successfully all the trials.

.finished

without

The nature of the twelve trials, in which the Erskine won over 23 cars, all of German make, was to determine the flexibility of each Demonstrating its brilliant per- formance in a series of 12 difparticipant. Many of the tests ferem testa, a stock model Ers-were so difficult that none of the

entrants kine Tourer was awarded first

Each contest was so penalties. honours in the "Geschicklich- keitsprufung" or skill test in designed to demonstrate some one feature particularly desirable In Hamburg, Germany under the automobiles, such as ease of steer- Allgemeine-Deutsche Automobil- Ing, ease of turning, braking, Automobil-Club speed, acceleration, and power, von Deutschland, according In addition to absolutely safe to word received from Hamburg driving, time was also an essential

Club and the

by the Studebaker Corporation.

factor... the The Erskine completed

The Erskine, with its small turn- twelve trials in minutes, 23 seconds, with a total of onlying radius, apeedy acceleration, twelve penalties as against the car steering ease, and low centre of which took second place with a gravity, was not at all handi- total of 28 penalties and a run-capped and was driven at high ning time of 6 minutes, 30 seconds.speed in top and second gear Out of the field of 23 competitors, during the entire event..

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