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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, MOTORING SUPPLEMENT. SATURDAY APRIL

PRACTICING FOR BIG RACE.

#57

A trip around the world in an auto is good practice for the grinding 500-mile race at the Indianapolis Speedway on Memorial Day, according to Roger Lacor, first foreign entry in the race this year. Lacor, shown here with his netress wife, expects to visit practically every country. He holls the world's record for a long-distance trip, covering 22.000 miles In a 17-month circuit of the Sahara Desert. Decorations on the radiator are awards for racing.

MOTORISTS' OWN

FOOLISHNESS.

Neglected Lights and Summons.

TO-DAY'S CAR. Materials Gathered Throughout the World. CREATOR OF WEALTH.

Qu-

SOVIET EXPERTS.

Delegation in American Ford Plant.

RUSSIAN PLANS.

of!

The automobile is a product of

A Soviet delegation of engineers the world's finest manufacturing craftsmanship and, incorporated le making a complete study in it, are materials gathored literal Ford production methods under an ly from overy part of the globe.agreement with the Ford Motor Yet in many countries whero Company whereby the Sovicta are tomobiles are sold, many people being aided in the establishment ecem to feel that because the pro- of their own automobile Industry of the for the exclusive manufacture of duct is imported

from the

the Ford car in Russia. materiala

aro in it country of the car's origin.

of fact. tho As a matter

Pro- tomobile is au international duct and the procuring of materials its manufacturo given employment to thousands of peoplo in all parts of the world. For example, General Motors aloue buys from more than 0.000 sap-sembling 20 cara a day in an as- pllers having a half million people sembly plant at Nijni Novogrod from parts supplied by the Ford on their payrolls.

Motor Company. This will be in a day when creased to 100 cars creased the Moscow assembly plant begins operations.

necessary

for

The Autostroy plant will have a capacity of 140,000 earn annually when it is completed by the end of 1931 and will be so arranged that production it can be expanded to

Meanwhile, the Soviets are on- of 300,000 cars a year.

and

auch na

The Russian engineers technicians are employees of Au- bulldera. However, tostroy, which translated means automobile

from the other there are some Soviet trusta that will help in the production of the car,

textile engineers, electricians. rubber experts and so on. Each man is engaged in the studios relating to his work and when he completes them he returns to Russia.

Proof that the automobile is an international product resta on the fact that the forests, the mines, the fields and the factories of Africa, Asia, Europe, America, Oceania and the Far East have been combed for the materials and products that are best, and most satisfactorily, fashioned into the iron and steel from motor car. North America, aluminum from Canada or the north coast of South America, copper from Chile, Africa and the United States, tin from Malaya and Bolivia, and nickel from Canada, are few of

About 9,000 persons are being the basic products that go into it. Wood from the forests of many employed in the building, of the countries are built into the bodies main plant and the community to

hard

Accommodate those who will work and trimmings, with many woods from Central America used.in it. Production will be under- a little at a time as the Rubber for the tyres and the cico- taken trical wiring, as well as for other plant progresses, and until the from the Orient. plant is completed, the Ford Motor parts, cumes Wool, of which many thousands of Company will continue to supply by the manufactured pconds are used by the industry, parts not

Bilk is tina or Uruguay. The litherto have always ron-have known of the lamp's little may come from Australia, Argen- Autostroy organization. sidered myself an honest, upright Inpse.

So far us could gather, his from Japan. Leather is from the man, writes a correspondent to

cattle-raising countries, Austral,

others. reply was to the effect that that Argentina and

Canada the "Motor."-

'I have walked with head well was what they all sald when they back, chest thrown out. thumbs were caught, and did he look as supplies the asbestos. The long of the though that was his firat day on tough cotton of the finest tyre is agrown in Egypt. The cork is pointed down

from Spain. (rousers, and all the other neces-the job, and did I have such

The alloys and metals, of which sary netions laid down by my one thing as a driving licence?

With that, inspiration came. As time tutor-the Manual of fa

are the special from the world demand for motor! fantry Training. In addition, I handed him the licence I hopped the automotive industry is one of it. The labour bill that proceeds

Man-transport is a huge one. have looked my nextdoor neigh out of the car, and by the time he greatest users,

The complete story of the au- bour in the face.

not had finished conving down his products of many lands. and have

and had ganeuo is from Brazil, Russia or been at all averse to the company voluminous particulars

China is from

and A machine for both utility and batteries,

fundamentally of my fellows, dallying an the inspected my road licence, I had India. Antimony, used in storage tomobile is lengthy and significant.

the vana pleasure purposes, Mexico. Peru supplica green with putter and excavating Inserted a spare bulb in the defec-

tive lamp.

diura. Tungsten is a product of affecting the lite of every part of in the sand with niblick,

China. Molybdenum le from North the world, it is a creator of weaith America and mercury, of which that has brought and is bringing large quantities are required, is untold benefits to all peoples, from Spain, Italy, Turkey and Mexico. Special tool steels, for Intricate manufacturing

a product cesses and delicute gages for the of Sweden. Chromium has lately factory inspectors, are become of great use in plating and solemn judgment on my case, I now, and as there are about twenty in alloys and the world's only dare not ask for letters: I just cars behind me walling to carry supply of that important metal in rush to the sineking-room and on, don't you think we might call embed myself in the deepeat arm-it quits and good-night?" With chair in the worstlighted corner; that, he waved and if a member asks me a ques-home. Pion, as one did yesterday, I come

the kennis

"I'm afraid I shall have to re- My Life in Changed and Allered.[part you for a "he started, But now all my world is chang-when I pointed out that there was I slink nothing wrong with the car or its ed, my whole life altered. round corners afraid to face the illumination.

A puzzled expression dawned next man fur fear of I know not what, When I enter the imposing slowly on his good-natured face. "Still, you didn't have a light portals of my club the hall-porter looks

ist me, or so it seems, in a minute ago"-this, as one might pitying way; perhaps the ensay, checkmate. mittee are already sitting in

all over in a clammy hent, fear-

ing that my guilty secret is st

"True," I responded, "but I have

pro-

Rhodesia, in South Central Africa. Thon, too, there are paints and

me on, and as varalsh. The gums of varnish come from the Far Enat, New Zealand and various parts of the tropics. The linseed for oil is furnished by Argentina, and while many of the colours are manufac tured processes, Italy, Spain and

The "Blister" Received and "Squared."

last known on every hand. This Imagine my dismay a week are

time the inquiry was on whether to receive what is technically other countries, furnish the earth

I had yet munuged to get round known as a "blister," requesting colours so necessary for certain in under a hundred, but the next my appearance

time..

Folly of Neglecting Lights on Motorcar.

lighta on my ear much recently,

хо

numerous

consumes are

TYRE INCREASE. Automobile tyre production in 1931 will reach 72,600,000, accord- ing to a recent estimate. This is an increase of 16,000,000 over the production of 1930.

before the

Into the directly "beaks"! Thinking that I had a shades and tints. These are many

The 12 good case, I put in the requisite things that appearance, and, to my mind, a manufacture of a motor car. mighty defence, a defence that products that indirectly affect its to mention. The It happened three weeks ago, was further strengthened by the manufacture and its operation, are had not had cause to as the evidence of my policeman, who

cheerfully agreed that "what de gasoline and oil that the automobila cecant

products of many he said he did say countries. as I had been chiefly confining my

The automobile, as we know it runs to the morning and carly your " To make mattore: I pointed to my

to-day, is built from the finest afternoon. The result was that extra certain,

materials that the world can had not gone over them to see that licence, spotless these 15 years.

"Twenty shillings; next

produce. all was well.

please Step down."

In Its manufacture, it is a pro- doct of intricate skill and design, of processes embracing a sweep from casting and rough forging, to the machining and finishing of parts, engines and bodies and on

WIS

I

Then came the fatal evening.

returning home inte, and switched on sidelights and tail and was pottering slowly through.

CRSE,

heard these As in a daze

thus be words, and a convicted felon.

remarkable

"How ?" you say. "It was not

the last village before my destina Д serious crime, there was no tion. when, just as -rund came endorsement of my licenco." No, held me up for cross-road traffic. t the nearside bulb flickered, lit

to the assembly line. Scarcely

censcleas If over again I appear in a court more than a hint can be given of

vost

brilliantly for a last despairing of summary jurisdiction (very these things, or of the second, and faded into darkness.

Of course, it was just bad luckmary!) and am found guilty and careful research and engineer-

of any offence, the question is not ing development that, in that the policeman turned round as his licence been endorsed ? laboratories of selentific accuracy, at that moment, looked hard at but "Is there anything known form a background of the whole 17" and then my pre-industry. It can be said that no the car and then, with majestle

against him mien, toddled un to my side,

vious "conviction," in all its ugly manufacture, in the history of the With perfect truth he made horror, will be proclaimed aloud world, has required more com plicated, or anor, or more economi the obvious romark. I assured again.

Do you wonder that I shrink cal methods of production. The be him that the mishap had occurred

of the degree of perfection only a second previously and had about the streets, fearful, timid, a automobile industry may well

that

It already has attained, a degree, however, that is yet far the ultimate and which is cel to ceaseless change and betterment.

I not been held up he would never shadow of my former self.

THER

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INSURANCE G? IT?

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(Under the suspices of the Automoblie Association}

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And in the use of the automobile, there is romance too. Not only is It a supplier of transportation but the automobile requires transport self, with ships and trains all of itself, over the world carrying the raw materials to the factories and then the finished automobiles to the

to

mil- users. It alvos.work. many flone, directly or indirectly, in the mincs, the forests, the fields and the factories, in sales and service work, in the building of rural roads, urban highways and bridges, and in countless other ways. Eldlled and unskilled workers on every continent, owe their employ- ment to the automobile, ven though they may be unaware*

1931

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