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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, MOTORING SUPPLEMENT.

*CAMPBELL'S NEXT RECORD ATTEMPT.

bottles with impunity, and prob- CHEVROLET'S LEAD. ably the only small obstruction which would be more treacherous and disastrous than a beer bottle to Captain Campbell's driving would be-half a beer bottle.

It must not be thought that the

To be Made in the Syrian Desert Next surface is a sandy one. It is quite

September.

Big Volume of Business.

With the year drawing on,' a hard clay ground, thoroughly Chevrolet is piling up production malstened every winter and baked records that indicate 1928 as its solid by the summer sun. The

summer weather is utterly reliable banner year and practically assure It is net surprising that Captalu speeds. There are several wadis-too utterly for words-and there its beating its own 1927 record of Malcolm Campbell has selected to be crossed-dried-up water need be no difficulties of wind in building and selling more cars the Syrian Desert for his proposed courses, which in the winter are the early mornings, although there than any manufacturer in the attempt to regain for England the steams emptying into the Euph-are usually gusts in the afternoon, world.

whirlwinds 'lifting black

Chevrolet's far-sighted policy of world's land speed record. He rates. The track is rather bndly and has searched the English and rutted as a rule and strewn with columns of dust some 200 feet up perfecting its product by introduc are quite the common thing. Ing new improvements with cách Danish coasts' without finding a small boulders.

As regards organization and pro- succeeding model while retalning. stretch of sand that ho regarda'as West of Rutba, however, there

now ample all the substantial qualities that suitable, and coastal sands nt is a splendid stretch of nearly 300 tection there are their very best have always the miles of smooth,, hard ground, facilities. Supplies can be obtain grave disadvantage of limited where speed is possible with safe-ed in Damascus, and the Nairn have earned it its reputation for pressed on the public's mind that workshop with width, with the risks of the sen ty. Nairn's saloon coaches, carry-company has there a most up-to-stability and service, is now so ime

lathes, on one side and the spectators on ing 16 passengers and two British date

drivers, a ton of luggage (on the machines, arc welding and other purchasers do not even question roof) and 150 gallons of petrol, plant. If the camp ia pitched mechanical qualities. They know besides water, Ice and food sup nearer to Rutba, supplies of fee, that when Chevrolet has met the plics, exceod 40 miles per hour for water and food can be arranged tests of General Motors Proving lon stretches. Travelling west-from there, for where existed Grounds, it la the best product of ward they are met 150 miles east merely the wells there is now nite kind money can buy. Just how a modern definitely they realize this la de- of Damascus by an armed Cadillac British fort housing car, which escorts them through hotel, wireless station and military monstrated by a demand that has the more dangerous parts of the protection. Finally, Imperial Alt-kept Chevrolet. factories going at stronghold of the Arab tribes. ways, Ltd., and the R.A.F. are in top speed and pushed production Cadillac and six-wheeler bowl constant patrol over the desert, sofigures to new high levels. comfortably along together at 40 that altogether Captain Campbell will probably be well pleased to 60 m.p.h.

with his choice. Good luck to his effort.

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A Sun-backed Waste. The Syrian Desert is 1 vant stretch of sun-baked waste at this time of year, perfectly smooth and hard in some places, rough, rutted and overgrown with camelthorn in others. In the days of the Per- sian and the Greek empires this dosort was a highway linking the Mesopotamian and the Modlier- For two ranean civilizations. thousand years, however, it has

Dimcullies to Frée. not, suffered the tread of man and

Captain Campbell, has, however, beat to any extent, until the re

some considerable difficulties to cent war and the years mediately following a close. In face. The greatest dificulty, 'of 1923 Norman and Gerald Nairo, course, is the heat, which will call two officers who had served in the for the very beat in tyres and for

No Machine Can Near Eastern campaigns, bravely careful carburetter and radiator started a mail service with Cndll-indjustments. He will also have

Replace Him. Ine cars between Bagdad and trouble with miragus, and it is Damascus. I was practically a quite possible that the

will necessitate. all

Pontias, Mich., July 3.-For 34 non-stop dish across the 600 miles diflenty of nothingness, with one reliable practise Fans and the record at years W. E. Noble has worked at oasis, namely Ratho Wells, half-tempts being made before 8 o'clock the same job in the plant of the in the morning. After 8 o'clock Oakland Motor Car Company, here, very trying; they but no machine has yet been found they become obscure the land ahead and give to replace him! the impression that one is driving over the edge of a clif.

way across.

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A MAN'S JOB.

During May, the Chevrolet Mo- for Company shattered all produc-' tion records of its sixteen years' existence by turning out 140,700 units. The peak for a single day was reached on May 28th when 7075 Anished cars and trucks roll- ed off the assembly lines..

Production of 1028 models to June 1 . 651,500 units, accord- ing to W. S. Koudsch, President and General Manager of Chevrolet Motor Company.

Up to June 1st last year the Company had built 513,000 new models: in 1926, 326,000 units, and in 1925 less than one-third the volume achieved during the cor- responding period this year.

The output for May was 25,000 units in excess of the 110,000 cara and trucka built in the correspond- this year had been the largest pro- duction month in the Iristory of the Company.

By their pluck and endurance the service was developed and re

Now Noble, at 65, is resting a gularized in spite of the dimenities

uit while the machinery from the of mud in winter and the trouble

As regards the surface, there old plant le being transferred to with Arab raiders during the 1925 period of the Druse rising. Last should be no difliculty in selecting the new $3,000,000 assembly planting period last year which, until Year the Naira Co, introduced six- stretch of 30 or 50 miles of Then he'll take up his bid tools on the practically perfect road, with again. relies of the horse age, and wheeler, saloon coaches route, so that nowadays the cross-width of several miles, free from resume his unique occupation.

It is fashioning the leather used

In view of the high May volume in is made in about 26 hours with camel thorn, ruts and boulders.

If it is near the motor mail track in upholstering the sport models safely and comfort. :

The eastern half of the track, he will find it necessary to make of the Oakland All-American Six and the June schedule, Mr. Knud- from Bagdad via Fellujab and then search for broken bottles, for the Back in 1894 Noble served in the sen has stated that by the middle RA.F. aerodrome of Ramadi, to modern desert travellers have a me capneity with the Pontiac of the year the number of new cars Rutba is not suitable for great careless way of discarding beer Buggy Company, which later built would be well beyond the

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three-quarter million mark..

All production operations of the Company have been running at capacity since early in the year. The high May volume was made possible, because several plans have been expanded and a new as- sembly plant, opened at Atlanta, Georgia, to relieve the other four- domestic manufacturing operations, got in its firat full month's production during May, Another now plant of similar size to the one at Atlanta has recently been announced for Kansas City, Missouri.

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evolved into the Oakland Motor Car Company. At that time he was engaged in trimming the gor- geous biggles of the smart set.

"Our production was about five or six buggies" a day," he says. "We had yearly models then just as they do to-day with automo- biles. But things certainly have changed since I came here.

"For instance, our 'conveyor line' for buggy wheels was a line of men standing between the freight car and the factory en- irance. The first map gave, the wicel a whirl and rolled it along the platform. Just as it. began to wobble, the second man caught it and rolled it on to the next. Some

of the boys were pretty good at it. "To-day in the Oakland Six factory the wheels, all matched in sets of the same colour, and equipped

with Inflated tyres, appear out of a conveyor chute at the exact moment that a car of the game Colour comes along on the assembly line. They've cer- tainly got 'er down to, a system. Never yet got a machine, though, that could do my job. I'm still cutting leather just like I did back in 1804..

"I went along trimming buggies until 1907 when E. M. Murphy, president of the Pontine Buggy Company, decided that maybe there might be something to this Ho horseless carriage business. set one little building aside for an automobile factory and I was put on auto trimming.

"At first the car had two cylin- ders and you had to pay extra for things like tops and headlights. The whole car except the top and trimming was assembled. All the parta were shipped in and a gang of men just worked around a car until it was finished. About two cars a day was our limit at first and the buggles were still the.com- pany'a main product.

"The next year they brought out the first four-cylinder Oakland; The automobiles soon became more Important than the buggies and mora space was used in the assembling.

"Finally in 1909 the company was taken over by General Motors.. But I kept right along the same: job and I'll be back at it again when they start up in the new building."

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