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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, MOTORING SUPPLEMENT. SATURDAY' APRIL

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AIR ACCIDENTS.“ CHEVROLET SALES. Usually Due to Mistakes Record Output for Last

by Pilots.

AUTOMATIC FLIGHT.

·December.

26,000 UNITS.

1931.

TRAFFIC IN CHINA.

Impressions of the Novice on Local

Transportation. Problems.

Aircraft accidents, it is univor- Decembor production of tho sally agreed, are caused in the Chevrolet Motor Company was great majority of cases by mia-04,018 cars and trucks, more than takes on the part of pilots. Pilot twise the 26,000 units built in mistakes, plus the mistakes of December 1929 and by a

Trafic problems in China do not trame-what can be done wide contro riggers and mechanics, underlie margin the biggest twelfth-month task of getting Americans ac-hibited from using the streg

themselves around the it? Surely, the carts may be 50 to 70 per cent. of aviation ac- in the company's history, accord-customed to the idea that the right alleys of the city-bas the eldents, and some authorities going to an announcement of W. 8.

rather to the left. This

"but

hat

of

so far as to say that 98 per cent. Knudsen, president and general right, baton of trade is not to lie to do with the thoug of all

Crushen can be traced manager. Chevrolet saica in Decem-is merely a curious thing to theurers who are larg sout of irectly to carelessness and errors her totalled more than 40,000, folks who are in the habit of tons of coal, rico,

How to more Lons and in judgment

setting another record.

f and A To-day the engineers of services

altting on either the left side of thousand other kir of Chineso and physics Inboratories aro ex which his registered consistent while in the act of navigating from place to pl

Employment of the company, the front sent (or in the rear) freight which mug jo transported ceedingly busy in the work of removing the chance of human gains since the introduction of the Lizzie through the mid-day session

of trakers and pederatriane. 1031 models in Novomber, stood, error from flying by substituting

And so we súlk through the mechanical and electrical devices 32,101 for the week ended Decsin-

atreets of the finese sity swarm- for the various functions of the ber 27, a gain of 347 aver the pro-worrying about the adequate and pedestriay and rickshaa, its side. While cities and towns are ing with s. ihousands of pilot. The work in proceeding lous week, Mr. Knudsen stated proper control of man-in-motion, walks arrow that two people successfully and rapidly until now During January the employment they really have a small job of it. find it deult to walk abreast: the airplane, that will by augure continued to climb to 10,000 The laws are made; it is just a tematically, that will find its way men, Chevrolet's normal operating

heav ladon coolles matter of enforcing them affec- point to point without the force.

making tively and the traffic problem of

some far eno bus deliveries to

to Boma of navigating judg December is the second succes America is practically solved of art of the city--kis load so ment on the part of the pilot and alve month to register, a new high not so in Chian.

y that at short Intervals he that will keep its trim in the air production figure, November with

ust stop and wipe streams of itself with no help from the an output af 45,000 Chevrolets Paint yourself a mental pietup of perspiration from his worker's skilled hands of the flier on the having exceeded nil previous of the Chinese city-narrow, the crying need of a weary body; brow, and thus halt traffic through controls is a practical possibility-Novembers, According to the blestoned streets, alloys haly not that rafuge of research latest estimates, General Motors wide enough to permit the pe sind slowly down the centre of the parades of coolics proceeding workers "theoretically sound," produced over half of all the unite of richna, no sidewalks, a Zoving definitely practical for use to-day, built by the entire industry in mass of flesh and blood forever furniture, household effects and street, bearing their burdens of The latest demonstration of this December, due chiefly to the new crossing and recrossingose nar articles of merchandise; the old progress is found in the trimotor- Chovrolet offerings. The Manufa think of your chauffe it trying to of flowers suspended from

row alleys and pay Area and Chinese gardenar with his baskets ed, Whirlwind-powered Fokker schedulo called for the manufac used by the Army Air Corps as turs of 70,500 cars and trucks crowd through that owd of pack-end of the long, sagging bamboo- its laboratory plane at Wright with the tentative February ngureed humanity. Field. Lieutenant Albert Fset, despite the short month.

swinging Place in that fumble of housea pole which At Hegerberger, of Hawaiian flight 70,100 sixes,

and alleys whira is know as the ceremoniously sideward fame, is the research pilot who.

Chineng city, the motor transporta threads his way through the for the most part, has carried on 1931 models got under way, cm-years ago an automobile in a Chi

Whon production of the now tion of the new world.

A few Chinese

of human forms; an Ancient the experimental work in the air,

cab carrying the dignified and engineers from private labora ployment in the manufacturing Chinese strect was a curiosity-Chinese lady through the street, tories all over

division the country are 20,000, Mr. Knudsen stated. Since but it la a nuisance.

the company was now it is no longer a curiosity-his warning to ricksha and walker cubman bolsterously shouting cooperating with the tochnical experts of the Air Corus in work that time old employers have been

alike to clear the way for the ing out the problem.

added gradually, and with nearly) The motor car has no place on Mistress of his Master's hous; 10,000 more returning to work in the Chinese street, except in the and hundreds of Chiness whool- FORD PLANES.

January, all regular employees few cities where a way has been barrows loaded, with brick and are now back on the job.

made by the progressive hand of sand, trying hard to balance their Mr. Knudson said that the In-man

¡way through all this tradic... Averages 128 M.P.H. on reden production schedules is tion is the ricksha. As the rleksha it? Where is the place for the

The fastest native transporta-

What is China going to do about predicted on the highly gratifying boy goes through the street at a Recent Tour. reception of the 1931 cars, as la

evidenced by the demands

automobile, the motor truck? dog-trot, he shouts his warning dealers for care for immediate Even the policeman at the street directors, would necessarily shy and ople make way for him. DETROIT-NEW YORK. delivery

America's most capable traffic corner will given him immediate at such

a problem - as this right of way whenever possible confronting

Chineso The ricksha can usually make his thorities. town way through the streets, but In Shanghal, two way traffic is with the advent of the modern possible along the principal streets gas wagons and struggle buggies, but what of the remaining thou- sands of elties and vallages where

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Ford trimotor transport plane, Atted with new high-speed equipment for the reduction of head resistance, bus just com. pleted a 1704-mile tour at an average speed of 128 miles per An invention to stop skidding of his is a hazardous life indeed. hour. Government officinis at automobiles has been displayed in Washington participated in part England. It consists of pipes of the heavy two wheeled cart

More serious yet is the problem automobiles are being Introduced. of the tests of the plane which mounted in front of each.

Oh well, we probably won't be gives indications of ability to wheel. These pipes automatically carrying of freight, no matter how out, but whoever is called upon rear which is always used for the called on to figure the problem greatly accelerate scheduled air sprinkle sand in front of the large or small. Slow moving, will have some job in trying to:

line travel by permitting increased wheels when the vehicle's brakes vehicles which must necessarily answer. intercity cruising speeds. The are applied on a slippery surfaco. slow down or even stop all other "Dear Mr. General, tour was from Detroit to Washing- ton, New York, and return, with several sido trips.

The fastest leg of the tour was a flight between Langley Field, Virginia and Washington, D.C., a distance of 135 miles. With Major Hugh d. Knerr, command- ing officer of the Second Bombard- ment Group, at the controls, the plane carrying a pilot, nine pas. sengern

and considerable baggage, covered this lap in 55 minutes, nt the rate of 148 milea

per hoir. The slowest leg was the 404 mile jump from Newark, N.J. to Cleve- land over the Alleghany moun- taina against strong head wind. The plane negotiated this lap in 3 hours, 50 minutes, despite the ndverse wind, at a rate of 105 miles per hour. On the home Alght to Detroit from Cleveland the 'aame day, the plane covered the 115 mile lap in 50 minutes, at the rate of 138 miles per hour.

On two other occasions, the plano averaged 138 miles an hour or better on long jumps.

was

the

outhbound flight between Dayton, O., and Washington, vin Vandalia, Pa and Cumberland, Md., when the plane covered 405 miles in 2 hours and 55 minutes, at a rate of 138 miles per hour. A 73 mile Jump between Camden, N.Jte

and Newark was covered in 31 minutes, at a rate of 140 miles per hour.

The plane which made this re- cord is a standard Ford SAT trimotor powered with Wasp engines. It was fitted with the new high-speed equipment com- prising refinements in fuselage design as well as engine ring, cowlings, all aimed at the reduc tion of head resistance to permit

in greater speed flight. During the tour the average spoed of the three engines was 1,700 rpm.," a normal galt, while fuel consump tion averaged 65 gallons per hour. The standard SAT transport, without the highspeed equipment, has been rated as having a high speed of 185 miles an hour, not greatly in excess of the average speed recorded on the recent tour, and a

a cruising speed of 112 miles. por

hour. The tours started at Ford air- port, Dearborn, Mich., carrying the party to Dayton and Washing ton, From the latter elty a 80 mile round trip was made to Balti- more and return tu 40 minutes, at rate of 120 miles an hour. Several days later, the plane cruised to Langley Field, vin Louisa and Richmond, covering 190 miles in 1 hour, 43 minutes, nt the rate of 111 miles an hour. The party then returned to Detroit, vin Camden, Newark and Cleveland.

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