Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 60, Number 100, Decatur, Adams County, 27 April 1962 — Page 13

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Future Constantly Beckons to Automobile Industry

Cars of Tomorrow Taking Shape Now

What kind of automobiles will be roaring across the highways of , tomorrow? How much faster will they travel than today’s cars? will they travel on the ground, in the air, or on water? What will the car of tomorrow be like? These srt questions that cannot be answered with certainty. But U.S. Steel's automotive design experts are trying to come as close as possible to the answers. The automobile five-year-old Johnny drives when he comes of age may have no wheels, be jet- - propelled, and could be designed i for use on another planet. Bight Type es Steel Whatever its shape or equipment, U.S. Steel is working now to make ' sure that exactly the right type : of steel will be available to build : it. U.S. Steel recently unveiled for Detroit’s top automotive stylists ( and engineers an array of advance a

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design ideas representing a crosssectton of autos and trucks that may be on the market 10 to 15 years from now. 3 John M. Reinhart, U.S. Steel's design representative to the auto industry, reminded them that the evolution of the automobile into the dream car of the future “depends on a close relationship between the automotive engineer and the people who supply him with his material.** Mr. Reinhart, a former designer who developed among otter models the now-famous 1856 Mark II Continental, pointed out: “The world is moving too fast for us to wait until a special steel is needed before we try to produce it. We must anticipate the requirements of the future in our research laboratories and application research work." For each of his design concepts, termed “entirely within the realm >f possibility and compatible with

New Cars Take Shape In Sculptured ‘Steel’ •TEEL BODY es new car is first modeled in day. (Ford)

Steel, says the definition, is composed of iron alloyed with carbon. Yet they make “steel" in an automotive styling studio without using either iron or carbon. At Ford Motor Company’s Styling Center, for example, they use present advances in technology," he presented drawings showing where U.S. Steel’s family of carbon, high-strength, coated, and stainless steels be put to use.

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plaster, clay, lumber, foil, plastic tape and paint, and a few other materials. Once the stylist transfers his idea of what a car should look like from his mind to paper, it is made into a three-dimensional model that has the appearance of an all-steel body and other steel components. In this way, he visualizes how the design will appear wait for phototypes to be built, wait for phototypes to beb uilt. To simulate the appearance of

sheetmetal, The Ford stylist stud ios use in one year as much as 55,000 board feet of lumber, 900 pounds ot foil, 1,500 gallons of paint, 14,000 yards of plastic tape, and more than 100,000 ponds of modeling clay (which is used over and over). The lumber is used to build a skeleton-like framework on which the full-size clay model is sculp, tured in clay. Once the model is honed to a fine finish, it is painted or covered with a special colored plastic film to give the appearance of a finished metal car. The foil and plastic tape are used to simulate the appearance of brightness in mouldings, ornaments and bumpers. The finished product, even at close range, looks like an all-steel automobile. Yet it contains neither of steel’s essential ingredients.

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GM's 75 Millionth Car Is Pontiac .. . I

General Motors, the world's largest automobile company, built its 75 millionth automobile on March 14th, and designated a gleaming Pontiac as the car to take the honors. Although it could have designated a car at any one of its more than 40 assembly plants, the company picked a Pontiac Bonneville convertible at the Pontiac home plant for the honor. The special

car got a special paint job. in pearl ivory, and a white leather interior. Otherwise it was a production model. General Motors was founded in September, 1908, with two car-mak-ing divisions, Buick and Oldmobile. The Oakland Motor Car Co., predecessor to Pontiac, and Cadillac were added in 1909 and Chevrolet became a GM division in

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1918. The last is by far the first in contributing toward the 75 million vehicles. It has assembled 43,773,307 cars and trucks, or 58.4 per cent of all domestic GM production. Buick is second among die producers with 10,665,289 vehicles followed by Pontiac, 8.543,453; Oldsmobile 7,553.049; Cadillac 2,569,291; GMC Truck and Coach 1,821,432 and miscellaneous cars no longer produced 74,179. These include such models as the Carter, Welch, Scripps-Booth and others, ’ GM passed the one million mark in March, 1919; the 25 million mark in January, 1940, and the 50 million mark in November 1954.