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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH. MOTORING SUPPLEMENT.

NEW

DETROIT IN ESSEX

Britain's New Place in Motor Trade.

This great enterprise, which has been talked of for years, has now began, and about three years hence there will be in operation

SATURDAY, AUGUST 10, 1929.

Sir Percival Ferry, the chat- MOTORING "CRIME" BUICK POPULAR, nan of the English Eord Com- 'Eany, described the new works as opening a fresh chapter in Great

WAVE.

created a new standard for the PRESSURE OILING. English motorist.

Many British automotive writers.

Britain's industrial history. - English Court Figures. Favoured by London and Buick, supro Work at High Speeds.

America.

English motorists paid £97,603

in fines in the last half of 1928, nc- cording to returns from the Home Office,

second.

Critics..

LARGE SALES.

macy. Saya the New Statesman:

"More than this, the Buick has Many older model cars in uso achieved such very large sales to to-day do not have a pressure oil- buyers of this particular type, that ing system to provide positive in self-defence a great many of lubrication to all parts at high the British manufacturers have speada, This deficiency can bo been forced to copy its general partially effected by the driver. In- layout and specifications. And stead of keeping the foot on the

speeds,

day, he went on, we look out upon more than 300 acres of undevelop-. ed land: to-morrow, as it were, this same site will be sending forth to all parts of Europe and Mr. Edsel Ford, Mr. Henry placed in the future will bring the Asia Minor 200,000 motor vehicles The Anes were imposed in 135,241 That the new Buick, especially Ford's only, son, cut the first sod total money spent in England by a year and Gading regular em cases, the most numerous of which the new body style, has struck the on the site of the new works at the company to about £2,500,000.) ployment for more than 15,000 were under the heading of "light- popular fancy of the British public with the usual fate of more copy- open throttle at maximum speed, it Dagenham, in Essex, last month Since the war there has been men. The works which we are ing," there being 36,078 of theRe..is evidenced by the many unstint-iets, they have by no means always should be lifted occasionally, This

great industrial development u inaugurating will be the largest Only 926 cases of "drunkenness ed, favourable comments that have this part of Essex, many factorica motor factory in Europe. Such while in charge of a motor are appeared in the British press since produced copies as sound as the creates suction above the piston

the advent of the now car.

which draws lubricant from the original." having risen on the wind-swept a gigantic project is bound to stir shown,

"The 1929 coachwork la pro-

"We all know that when the It is a good thought to catry along crankcase up the cylinder walls. at lands on the fringe of East our imagination with pride, and

A Ford Tudor sedan, driven by bably amongst the finest, which sons were re-opened (following the on the touring trip when much Landen. A few years ago the the significant result of this great there the largest motor factory in Degenham Reach where in the past development will be to place Great Paul Tholstrup, won the 1440-mile America has yet given us," says a farmistice) the Buick instantly be driving is done at relatively high Ho many attempts have been made Britain in a class as a producer race from Copenhagen to Paris and writer in the New Statesman, a came the favourite parchang. of Europe. Mr. Ford's intention is to stem the Lidal waters of the of cars comparable only with miles an hour. Another Ford ran and literature. "It is designed betwixt and between sense. It is back, at an average speed of 44 popular London review of politica the man who is wealthy in a to manufacture at Dagenham all, Thames, was an extremely remote] the various types of Ford cars and desolate spot. Great con-

throughout," he continues in part, not an ostentatious car. It is not House Refuse for Power,

with a practical eye on the pro- really expensive. It will last fortainly cannot obtain anything bet- necessary, to supply the European

All Buick exhaust valves are of bable demands of the owner, and a good number of years if the to and Near Eastern markets.

"The meaning of this new Ford "g" steel-the type used in racing embodies every conceivable con- dislikes an annual change of car. This high valuation of Buick is development is that Great Britain automobiles, aeroplanes, and other venience and gadget." from now on will be the pivot on engines which are required to en Bulck cars for many years have other words, when a practical man Continent, in France, Germany, not confined to England, It Is "It is entirely rollable, In shared by the motorists on the which the Ford business with dure severe usage.

been setting a pace in England wants a car that is roomy Europe and many other parts of

which the British manufacturers good, and needs it for uso rather tries, and it justifies the optimistic.

and Italy and the Scandinavian coun the Eastern hemisphere will turn.

have been unable to maintain than to advertise his financial predictions This country, through the great

Buick's tremendous power

of aclory officials new factories at Dagenham and]

and position, there is no reason why he that the 1929 export business will Cork, will supply itself, Europe,

and beautiful body work have a Buick and at the money he çer the Buick organization. flashing speed, its dependability should buy anything better than be the greatest in the history of parts of Africa, and Asia Minor with Ford cars trucks and Ford- son tractors. "This development cannot fail to have the most pro- found influence upon employment in this country and upon indus- trial conditions in a much wider field.

erete factories have been opened} of late within reach of the moderni Dagenham Docks, and before very long industrini London will have prend out solidly to this point, and perhaps still lower down the

The First Sod Cut.

There will be three very large factories--the manufacturing plant, the assembling plant, and

river. the foundary, as well as blast- furnaces, coke ovena, fire-house, The housing of the thousands and boiler-house. The site covers of workpeople who will be em- 300 acres along the river, about! ployed on the construction of the ten miles from London. It is ex-| Ford works and in the factory is] cellently placed for transport and a difficult problem, but arraŭge distribution. The Ford Company ments that have been made are state that when the works are in expected to solve it. The London full production they will employ County Counell is carrying, ont a about 15,000 workpeople. Mr. housing scheme at Dagenham, and Ford has announced that his have just decided to build an English employees will be rela- additional 1,500 houses, A Cardiff tively as well puld ax, those in firmi is to put up 1,500 more, andį

"There will be many. novel America, the difference in the cost the local authority another 100. feataires connected with our new of living in the two countries be- There is a good deal of unemploy works. It will possess its own ing borne in mind. It is estimat- ment in the district which will he power plant of 30,000 kilowatts, la el that the factory will need to relieved by the Ford enterprise.

own foundary manufacturing and produed something over 150,000|

assembly plants, and further, Mr. cars annually to autisfy the ex.

Henry Ford has decided entirely port trade alone, the total prodne-

to eliminate that indescribable tion of

A large company" of people nuisance, which ajoins our CATA nud commercia){

site vehicles being very much larger. interested in the motor, industry and is known as "the South Horn- This will be the only place oat-Ford ent the sul on what is now ing to

was present when young charch refuse dump. We are go alde Detroit where all the manu-

demonstrate to Great. facturing processes are carried a piece of waste ground close to Britain how power can be gen- on, the other Ford establishments the river. He put so much vigour crated out of ordinary house re- at Manchesley, Cork, and on the the silver spade which had been of half a million pounds a refuse into the and-cutting that he beat fuse. We are erecting at a cust Continent being assembling

presented to him. He straighten: destructor and special boiler plant factories;

ed the spade out again, and began which will consume 1,000 tons of Three Years to Complete.

afresh without the least em-house refuse a day, when convert- barrassment. He made a The construction of the works! speech, in the course of which he the

shorted into steam, will be utilised for will take about three years to said: "I hope that our establish electricity. We expect to gen of generating complete. It was stated to-day mont here will help to bring about ofate more power than we shall that orders to the value of those relationships between the consume in our own factory, and £120,000 have been placed for United States and England which hope to be able to negotiate, with levelling and excavation, road and we are an anxious to have. This the electrical powers that he to railway embankments, bridges development is very near to our take our surplus electricity for and other work which will give hearts in Amerfen, and we hope sale to the public at a price much immediate employment to 2,000] that we shall see progress from lower than has hitherto been or 3,000 men, Contracts to be now on in a very rapid' way." charged.""

purposes

ACCIDENTS HALVED.

Safety First Effective.

According to a report_just_re- ceived from General Motors Cor- poration, there were only eight ne cidents in their plants during last year, which is just one-half the number in 1927. The record is un- usual, especially when it is con- sidered that General Motors has 220,000 employees in its plants.

In Australia (as fn other coun-I tries) welfare work and safety- first facilities characterise all five assembly plants of General Motors

Australia), Pty. Ltd.

COMMON AS DIRT.

Gems as Road Metal.

VIOLET STREETS.

where the streets are literally paved There are some parts of the world

with rems.

One is in Bahin (Brazil), where the chippings from the amethyst workings are used as road gravel. mined and handled D,000 hundred- Gem entters and polishers have) weights of amethyst, and whole strects, which are paved with the. waste material, have a violet sheen.] that grades are used as gravel, and la Siberia, opals are so plentiful) in Australia ronds are paved with | the waste from the beautiful 'ser-i pentine and asbestic stone.

INSPECTING A G.M.C. TRUCK IN SOUTH AFRICA.

A South African Investigation committee surveys the mechanical features of a GMC

truck,

The Record-breaking ROOSEVELT is now on Show.

THE

THE STRAIGHT 44 EIGHT'

Marmon-built Roosevelt straight-eight sedan which broke all automotive non-stop endurance records on the Indianapolis Motor Speedway was stock in every mechanical detail, and was completely equipped "trendy for the road" with two extra wire wheels, tyres, tubes- and envers, shock absorbers bumpers front and rear, and trunk rack.

After the start of the test at 10 a.m. June 12, 1929, the Roosevelt continued to circle the famous two and one-half mile" brick oval under its own power, and at the end of over eighteen days running under the full supervision of the American Automobile Association, was only stopped from continuing by one of the worst storms ever experienced in the locality.

SMOOTH POWER

DON'T DELAY, BUT ARRANGE FOR AN EARLY

DEMONSTRATION

OF THE “ROOSEVELT”—THE TRULY SUPER-CAR.

WHICH RAN FOR EIGHTEEN DAYS WITHOUT STOPPING!

AN" EIGHT" AT THE

PRICE OF A

#

SIX"

The Roosevelt silun which broke all records for sustained automotive performance on the Indianapolis Speixiway near the finish of the gruelling lest. BUILT BY HE MAKERS OF THE FAMOUS MARMON CAR.

Roosevelt

MARMON-BUILT

(SEE SPECIAL ARTICLE ON, PAGE ONE)

THE engine of the car was a standard Roose-

velt straight-eight with a piston displace- ment of 201. 9 cubic inches and a bore and stroke of 23 x 41 inches, developing 70 horsepower at 3200 revolutions per minute. The crankshaft main bearings are five in nuinber, each 24 inches in diameter, bronze back with babbitt' faced.

Elimination of torsional vibration was assured throughout the test by the high-frequency oscillation modulator perfected by Thos, J. Little, Jr., Marmon ch ́ef engineer. The modu- lator is standard on every Marmon built engine..

Springs and shock absorbers were of strictly stock construction and were not even specially adjusted for the unusually rough surface of the speedway brick track.

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