1931-06-06 — Page 12

THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, MOTORING SUPPLEMENT, SATURDAY, JUNE 6, 1931.

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MAN WHOSE HOBBY IS WORK.

The Master Mind of General Motors.

[lly James F. Donahue.l

Made Lænder of G.M.C. Then Will Durant lost control

DuPont came into control.

HIT NOISY CARE

of General Motors, and Pierre S. against noisy automblies were More than 2500 prosecutioni After

entered in England from August, a short time, DuPont, a capitalist 1920, to April, 1939. Nearly all and not an engineer and automo-complaints were against noises tive man, saw that Sloan was the made by car bodies, auch as rát- logical man to lend the destinies les, squeaks and so forth.

of General Motors. In 1928 he stepped out and Sloan walked in.

How any one mun can handle |

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ODD BUT IT'S TRUE.

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the reins of so many enterprises According to a statement of the New York, April.-The "spark plug" of one of the world's has remained a mystery to many. American Automobile Association, largest corporations doesn't give orders.

As president of General Motors, there were 32,000,000 automobila Alfred Pritchard Sloan, Jr., president of General Motors Cor-Sloun has active part in the drivers in the United States at the poration, with all its 80 affiliated concerns, "advises."

operation of Buick, Chevrolet, first of 1980, compared with This tall, lean and quiet man, who wears unusually high at oldamobile, Oakland and Ponting, 20,5000,000 motor vehicles collars and who is 56 years old, doesn't believe in telling his sub- Cadillac and La Salle factories, operation. ordinates what to do. He believes in co-ordination and giving the and all the various units of Fisher heads of the various departments in the huge holdings of his concern | Body in the United States, with practically a free hand to carry out their own ideas."

Vauxhall in England and Opel in That's one reason why the net sales of the corporation increased Germany. from $698,038,000 in 1923, when Sloan was made president, to $1,604,104,472 in 1929, the organization's peak year.

Sloan is a living exception to the adage that all work and no has under his direction A. was 644 gallons, on which the play makes Jack a dull boy." He is constantly it work. He has no hobbies. He tried golf, but It couldn't hold his interest.

He is not fond of the theatre or opera, if decan't spend his evenings playing bridge. He dotes on none of the things undern Babbits do, and his only recreation in his work.

In view of this, one wonders, on viewing his tall, slim frame- he is more than six feet tall and carries only about 130 pounds of flesh-how he keeps fit. But he has all the appearances of a well- trained track man, even to the point of a clear, tanned face.

Born a Yankee.

Sloan's early life was marked bý no amazing events. He was born in New Ihaven. Conn., and moved

to Brooklyn when five. Ile went through school like any ordinary lad and attended Massa- chusetts Tech, gradunting in 1895; with Gerald Swope, now president of General Electric.

Sloan started his workaday life | in the draughting offices of the Hyatt Haller Bearing Company, concern in which his father had an interest. It had a hard tinte making onde meet. Sloan, quick to realize the situation of the company, get transferred to the business and administrative side of the game and soon his person- ality and methods were lifting the company out of the rat.

Sloan sold the bearings of his factory all over the country.

is intereating to note that one of his first customers was an up and coming automobile manufacturer, Henry Ford,

In 1916 Sloan and other auto men organized a huge accessory plant, United Motors. A short time after joining this company, General Motors took it over and Sloan found favour in the com- Inny's eyes, He was made a vice president.

LESS GAS CONSUMED.

The average gasoline consump-

In addition to actual automo tion in the United Statos Inst year bile manufacturing plante, Sloan

Spark Plug, Frigidaire Corpora-average tax was $17.52, according tion, Hyatt Bearings Division, to the American Motorists! Asso- United Motor Service, Inc

The average consump- tion of 1928 was 571 gallons.

BLIND MECHANIC.

Aviation Corporation, Ben.ciation.

Motora Radio Corporation, Ethyl Gasoline Corporation. General Motors Research Laboratories, Yellow Truck and Conch Manu- Fifteen years ago Harry Erick- facturing Company, and many son, of Bloomer, Wis., lost his other units of the great organiza-sight. He set out to learn the auto- tion connected with everything mobile mechanic trade by his sense from automobiles to refrigerators of touch. Today he is regarded as and radios in United States, the most skilled mechanic in the Canada, and 24 foreign countries. district.

General Motors Export Corpora- tion, controlling the numeroita activities of this organization, is

a huge corporation in itself.

What a Life!

And He Has "Spare Time."

In

Although he has hundreds of friends and could rinke nany more, Sloan is described as "shy." Yet, in addition to having his He belongs to several clube, yet

rarely attends any of thom All these activities, his spare time he rests, and his Sloan is a director in such enter-is a reat of complete relaxation. prises outside General Motors as He spends his few spare moments the Nickel Plate Railroad, the at home with his wife. They Pullman Company, E. I du Pont have no children.

hands in

de Nemours und Company, Chase

National Bank of New York and If the man has any hobbies, no the Johns Manville Corporation.

one has been able to determine them. He is a Republican and

In order to keep close tab on Methodist. He writes à lattor to all these interests, Sloan travels the more thon 263,000 stock-

in great deal, mostly between New holders in the company four times York and Detroit, often conduei-ja year and keeps in close contact Ing some of his business on board with more than 26,000 dealers. trains. Europe, too. calls him That Sloan and his efforts have

BUCCOSA often, and he packs his bag and made

of. General hops on a ship on short police. Motors is proved in the Intest report issued by the corporation He is A singular figure.for 1931. It showed an organiza- Almost anyone who had ever seention valued at $1,315,813,059, apleture of him could pick him resping dividends from the sale out in a crowd. He is beginning not only of more than 1,260,000 to grey at the temples. His lips motor vehicles a year, but also are quite thick and his ears are such products as aircraft, radios, rather large. He walks with a refrigerators, lighting and Igni- stride appropriate to one of such tion equipment, sporting goods. height. Tis face is long and plate glass, Diesel motors and all narrow, and his high forehead sorts of automotive parts and suggests a wealth of intelligence. accessories,

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