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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, MOTORING SUPPLEMENT. SATURDAY, JULY 19, 1930.

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Safe and Dependable Aeroplanes. (Concluded)

[By Edward S. Evans.}

RAIL MONOPOLY.

U.S.A.'s Troubles.

'BUSES THREATENED.

plete control, the railroads can demand has declined to the point and undoubtedly will show cause whore increases are not warrant- for increasing faras until the rates ed.

are almost equnt to current rail- The railroads undoubtedly are way levels. With the fares pricin opposition to "bus service where. tically equalised, traffic for the it competes with rail carriers, and most part then will revert to the will do all in their power to bring railways.

back transportation completely to In the provisions of a bill now

Railway fares average about their service. being debated in the House of 3 cents per mile, with the inter-

Representatives is contained the city bus fares averaging about Destroys Competition,

railroads.

threat of a reduction of 'bus trans- two cents per mile. Should When the Parker Bill first came

itself and endeavour to obtained little opposition to it. Many The prospective investor will do make arrangements for servicingportation to a minimum, with the private competition again assert up for consideration there appear

nation's traffic reverting as well to limit his investments in and storing planes, and some are

licence and furnish adequate acr- bus operators, not harassed by aviation enterprises to those com- requiring that they carry a stock consequence almost entirely to the vice, the railway-controlled opera- the obvious consequences, saw in panies which have a long record of replacement parts,

Should this threat tors will reply that they stand it the opportunity to sell their.

That all rail-- of achievement behind them, or Showrooms have already been become a reality the results to the ready to furnish any necessary lines profitably. holding companies controlling established in some of the larger bus manufacturing division of additions to service, but that (Continued on Page 4) well rounded group of organiza-cities, and the next few years will the automotive industry would be tions the permanency of which is probably see even cabin planes on

annihilating. assured by past accomplishments. permanent exhibition in the busi-

New Money,

ness sections of every, large com- The most significant factor of munity. amount of new money that was been put into effett by the better

The measure is known as the Parker Bill, and was authored by

the industry for 1929 was the vast Financing plans have recently Representative James M. Parker,

poured into aviation, and the many established companies, and it is of New York, chairman of the mergers which were consummat-now as easy to finance the pur-Interstate and Foreign Commerce ed. In the last 18 months, some chase of an acroplane as it is to Committee. The bill at present 60 formerly independent com buy an automobile out of income bids fair to pass both House and panies have been merged into instead of capital.

Senate, despite the development of "Big Four," composed of the Every few months we see some considerable opposition in the Curtiss-Wright Corporation, the statement predicting that in the

House. Aviation Corporation of America, future we will all have "livver" the United Aircraft and Trans-planes parked alongside our auto- Sponsored by Railways. port Company, and the Detroit mobiles in our garages, that soon

Passage will signify the open- Aircraft Corporation. Each of we will be flying directly to the these companies controls a well roofs of our office buildings, anding of the way to the railroads | rounded group of from 10 to 20 other startling developments. toward a dictatorial position as organizations specializing inSuch things may come in the next regards the future of intercity 'bu various lines of manufacture generation, but it is doubtful if transportation. The bill is known and operation. There are still the readers of this article will to be sponsored by the fallroad some 20, strong independent com-fever witness much change in

interests for this specific purpose. panies that have enough reputa-design. tion and financial backing to meet What of the Future?

The Parker Bill provides for the larger groups in any period It is a brave man indeed who the control of interstate motor- of competition. In view of the is willing to make any predictions bus transportation by a Federal stock market: situation, it is not as to what the future holds in Commission, exactly as the rail- probable that there will be much store for aviation, but there are roads new are under Federal con- further consolidation during the some things that stand out astrol. Licences will be granted by present year except possibly in the fairly certain. In spite of all the the Federal Commission accessory or raw material fields. many new developments in the

all virtually

companies. HOW going field of aeronauties, it is doubtful operating, but thereafter licences The industry is through the third stage of its if we will.ace much basic change will be granted only where tha development. From the time of in seroplane design in the next necessity is shown. the Wright brothers' first flight few years. Improvements and

now

ta

until Colonel Lindbergh's flight in refinements, of course, will be Currently, railways through 1927, aviation was going through made. These will increase the their subsidiaries are important Jan engineering development. speed and carrying capacity, re-owners of interstafe 'bus.lincs. During this period, the basic duce the length of run required to These lines operate over almost nerodynamic problems

were land and take-off, give more com- all important intercity routes, devoted to meeting problems of fort and even greater reliability. including transcontinental lines. efficient production. The latter We will see many spectacular With the Federal Commissio half of 1928 and 1929 saw nearly experiments in the next few years, making it imperative for licence 500,000,000 dollars of new but our present modern planes in-applicants to show actual trafe financing poured into

various corporate the features that make needs for now lines, these lines aviation enterprises, the merger for safe, dependable operation.already in operation undoubtedly of many companies, and the intro-The engineering departments of can prove that they can adequato- duction of more highly efficient several of the larger aeroplane ly supply all the service demanded business management.

manufacturing companies are by the public. It therefore will

Monopoly in Sight. Railways and their subsidiaries then can buy out competing.com- panies, since most of the private operators will welcome an oppor tunity to sell out at a reasonable This will further secure figure. the railroads' monopoly.

We now approach 1930, when working on radically different be wellnigh impossible for new the main emphasis will be laid on designs, but it will be many years applicants to obtain a licence. efficient merchandising, and selling before any of them will have gone Such a situation would give the the public and the business man through the engineering develop-operating lines a virtual mono-! on the practical time and money-ment necessary to bring them topoly of "bus transportation. saving value of flying. Until the the point of safe, practical appli- last six months, aeroplane sales cation to air travel. took care of themselves, but now The present year will see the with more discriminating buyers aviation industry settled on and the ready market from com- definite stable business basis, with mercial operators and transport healthy increases in the value of lines well covered, the industry products, and popular confidence has had to branch out and seek in Bying, Spectacular achieve new purchasers. Up to the last ments will be less frequent, for year, not more than five com- there will be less need of them. panies had developed anything The problem which is rapidly like a wide distributing organiza- being solved will be to place tion. Now every company is dependable, economical aviation making efforts to establish dealers equipment at the convenient dis- and distributors in all parts. posal of every individual and cor- Most of the companies are reporation in need of fast. trans- quiring that these distributors Iportation.

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