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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH. MOTORING SUPPLEMENT. SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 9, 1929.

FROM PEKING TO LONDON BY CAR.

Major D. M. McCallum of the British Army and his party land at Dover, England, after

having completed 16,000 miles in Buick cars...

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FAST DELIVERY. 6-CYLINDERS LEAD,

Specialised System. The Change from the

GRAHAM-PAIGE.

Four.

HOW CALCULATED.

Detroit being the hub of the auto- mobile universe from which most cars in use in the world to-day are

For the first time in the his- shipped, it has become a matter of increasing interest to visitors to tory of the automobile industry, Detroit to see what various manuix cylinder enes promise to lead factures are doing in the matter of the Seld in production this year. prompt despatch of spare parts, according to a survey by the This is a natural interest for it is Chevrolet Motor Company just a matter of importance to the man completed, Up until this year who is buying a car to know the four cyhder cars ranked first in promptness of the service he is go- annual pe suction volume. ing to receive on that car. When a ear-owner needs a spare part for his ear, nine times out of ten, no matter where he may happen to be, he wanta that part in a great hurry.

Comparative production Bgures for the first six months of this year are offered in support of the; forecast. During this period there! were produced approximately 1,900,000 sixes as compared with An interesting sidelight on how approximately 1.265,000 fours, an one large automobile manufacturer indication of what the total for jealously guards a reputation it the year is apt to be.

has built up for speed in filling

How the change comes about is spare parts orders, especially when illustrated in the survey. Chec shipment are via Pacific and rolet's manufacturing goal for the Atlantic steamers, is revealed in

year is 1,350,000 cars. Chevrolet's the case of the Graham-Paige change-over from a four to a six Motors Corporation. This company means a deduction of this enormous has inaugurated a new spare parts total from the four cylinder field division which is housed in a four and adds it to the six cylinder! story plant of 262,000 sq. ft. floor feld. area and which contains an inven-

How the autontobile picture has tory over a million dollars' worth

changed almost overnight will be of spare parts,

An order is received at the new noted in un inspection of the 1928 parts and service plant of Graham showing. Last year when Chevro Paige, is despatched by pneumatic let was producing a four cylinder tube to the proper department for car, four cylinder manufacturers filling-travels along by an endless built approximately 2,098,000 ears, conveyer sytem is packed and with one large manufacturer of shipped by one of three services, four cylinder cars on limited pro- an hourly mail service, a two hour duction due to model change while express service, or a daily freight six cylinder manufacturers service. So rapid is the entire making 1,617,000 cars,

As it now stands the year 1929 once an order has come to hand should show approximately 3,000, that this new addition to the 000 six cylinder units as compared Graham-Paige development scheme to only 2,250,000. four cylinder is regarded as a model of speed units.

were

and efficiency by the entire indus- Consequently this significant try. Speed in delivery of parts to development; which will make the more than 75 foreign countries is current year an epochal one in essentially a Graham-Paige feature the annuals of the automobile | that is a matter of importance and business, comes about chiefly as n convenience Graham-Paige result of the entrance of Chov-

rolet into the six cylinder field.. owners the world over.

The story of Major D. M. "Although the ears of the expodi-: "Meshed is to the Shia sect of McCallum's mutar trip from tion came through the 15,000. mite the Moslem religion what Mecca Peking to London is interesting ordeal without giving any cause, is to the Sunnis. This sacred but a few incidents are outstanding for anxiety and gave us no trouble shrine is jealously guarded by its from it the motorist's viewpoint, at all beyond ordinary care, that adherents. All approaches are pro- Major McCallum is an officer in does not mean that the journey, tected by heavy chains slung across the British Army and a well was free of incident. Leaving the roadways and, zealous followers known traveller. On this occasion, China, we crossed into Indo-China of Islam are posted behind the he and his small party made the, to follow the famous old Mandarin chains to see that no infidel 15,000 mile journey in two stock' Routh. This road, centuries' ago. tempts to force his way. In. model Buicks. The descriptions, was the highway between South "Not much has been said about alone of the obstacles that had to China and Siam and in modern the purely motor difficulties, en-peration of despatching the goods be overcome are sufficient evidence times has been, restored to a great countered. In the course uf a of the durability and stamina of, deal of its old, importance by the long journey of this nature it can French. The road is officially be rendily." "understood, that the from Major Me

known as 'Route Coloniale No. 1 tracks are not always of such ex- Callum's complete account of the and is an excellent first-clyse motor cellent quality as the roads trip follows:

road from one end of Indo-China, to India or Western Europe. We "We shall never forget the high the other,

have often been asked about, the anow-covered mountain passes of "One of the most interesting progress we made each day. The Northeast Persia, where dend places we stayed in during our distance varied, of course, for all eumels blocked our path at the journey was the old city of Meshed, sorts, of reasons. On several oc- narrowest and most precipitous tucked away in the northwest casions more than 300 miles were spots, nor yet the wild night in the corner of Persia and cut off from covered in a tiny. At other times, caravan-serai far up in the the rest of the world by theonly a few miles were completed mountains overlooking Meshed enormous mountain, ranges which and that at the cost of a great deal with the continuous sound of camel shut in on all sides the valley in of energy. The lowest total com- bella throughout the night, as the which it lies. Struggling over pleted in any one day was 11 miles, caravans padded softly over the snow-covered passes, it seemed as when we travelled from 7 o'clock. snow in the brilliant moonlight. though we should never reach the in the morning until 1 o'clock the "An incident in the Taurus city. Then, just as we crossed the next morning and only with the mountains stands out in clear relief het crest lying to the south, we help of a team of mules were we where a landslide had almost swept held, almost, at our feet, a blue pulled out of the worst of the mud. away the track along the edge of haze of smoke against the green The road. on this occasion, Had a dangerous precipice. We were as of the valley and could make been thoroughly soaked by con obliged to crawl breathlessly along.

tinuous, rainfall which had reduced

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the near-side wheels forced up on out in the distance, thousands of the roughest and steepest of The slope of the mountain, tilting feet below us, the wonderful blue tracks to a heavy gluey" mixture in the cars over at an unbelievable tiled minarets of one of the holiest which the wheels of the cars stuck angle.

shrines of the Mohammedan world. fast.”

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That ear and truck production of Production of cars and trucks by Antomotive exports for the first American manufacturers will reach member companies of the National six months of 1929 were valued at mark of 5,200,000 units is the Automobile Chamber of Commerce $354,874,924, or 35 per cent, higher prediction of Alfred Reeves, general, for the first seven months of 1929 than during the first half of 1928, manager of the National Automo- totalled 2,656,106 units, or seven according to the U. S. Department hile Chamber of Commerce.

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