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dick ald FRIDAY, OCT. 25, 1940

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AUTO PLANTS GET [jms | Srecmined ond

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Huge Body Presses to Turn Out Fuselage Parts: Which

Will Be Gathered To In | Aircraft

gether for Assembly Factories.

By JOHN LOVE Timea Special Writer

WASHINGTON, Oct. 25.—Here is how the automobile

dustry will make airplanes

by mass-production methods:

The facilities of all the plants will be offered for Government orders. | The body parts of those planes whose designs are now understood to be standardized (two models

are reported) will divided

among the companies of the

industry. With these parts given preference on the factory schedules, the ig auto-body presses will form up sec-

tions for airplane fuseliges ‘by a method which -substitutes minutes for the hours now required for the hand work in the airplane industry. The completed parts, gathered from all the body pla engaged on the assignment, will be taken to the factories of the irplane industry, including the fus lage plant to be erected in Columbus, O. (The

automobile plants cannot assemble bombers—their ceilings are too low.)

Understhe leadership of the Automobile Man 3’ Association, a meeting is being called in Detroit for today by its president, Alvan Macauley, to be attend sentatives of all the coi gluding Ford. Ford and Packard

and a Buick engine contract is in the works. At the meeting today the companies will ing out the program coThe size of the orders rected to the automochile is not yet known, prebably not fully decided. Inasmuch as tgol and die work for a single type pf airplane in mass production would run io enormous cost—far beyond that involved in the ordinary [automobile model—it is supposed the production of one model of airplane would run into the thousands.

All Plants May Benefit

Once the big presses start forming up the aircraft-body and wing

sections they would need to be tied up on plane work only a few weeks, at a time., The combin body ca-| pacity of the nation is|now turn-| ing out between 90,000 sets of auto] parts a week. Ten thousand sets of airplane shapes, 4hough| more mnumerous. and not initially| capable of i production at automobile speeds!

Alvan Macauley . . . calls A. M. A. conference at Detroit.

MASS WHIPPING IN SCHOOL IS PROBED

DANDRIDGE, Tenn. Oct. 25 (U. S.).—Supt. W. Cx Waters of Jeilerson County schools said today he would begin immediate investigation of charges by a group of parents that 58 children were “unmercifully whipped without reason” at the New Market school near here. : : H. T. ‘Nichols, New Market farmer who led the protesting parents, said the whippings were administered last Friday after a “disturbance” ‘at a school piay.

should not be too difficult for the already have more than $500,000,

motor-vehicle industry. It is expected the sefs of parts! will be scattered amo most or all of the body plantg, such as those of Fisher, Briggs| and Murray, as well as the |automobile plants with presses capable of taking panels as large as those in the planes. Most of the plants are in Michigan and Ohip, but there is substantial capacity on the Pacific Coast, in Memphis, the New York and Philadelphia districts. ; decision of the Autom facturers’ Association members’ capacity,

tion without, involving

000 worth of defense orders, includIng engines, tanks, scout cars, tractors, army trucks and machiné

guns. Whether the acceptance of orders for many more millions of dollars’ worth of airplane-body sections will affect automobile production is not yet clear. In its resolution this week the association said its members “have undertaken to subordinate work -on model changes to the extent necessary.” “If the plane order runs to anything like 10,000 units the manufacture of current models may be

| slowed down. Much depends on the

delivery schedules — hody parts could be cut, shaped and piled, but there would be no point to rushing through large tonnages of them

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America’s newest automobile, the 1Americar, is on display at Wiliys dealers. § : This car, newly engineered from bumper to bumper hy the noted engineer, Delmar G. Roos, represents the fulfillment of ideas developed over a period of years by Joseph W,. Frazer, who, with 8 new group of associates, now is in charge of Willys-Overland Motors, Inc.

features available in higher-priced cars. Streamlining is carried out in interior lines. The rear section of the body is fashioned in the popular “torpedo” style. Weight has been held to economical limits consistent with safety and riding comfort. The overall length is 181 inches. Interiors e i in a new, specially fabricated Canda cloth. Three Body Types Three body types are offered: Four-door: sedan, coupe and station wagon. Without exceeding piston displacement that keeps the car in a low license rate, the new power

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horsepower at 3800; revolutions a minute (65 h. p. with special aluminum head), fast acceleration and a top speed of more than 80 miles. an hour in the sedan. Reports of more than 35 miles per gallon of gasoline developed in factory tests indicate 30 miles or more per gallon as an attainable average for ordinary country driving speeds. Without increasing the number of cylinders or cylinder displacement, Americar engineers developed additional horsepower with manifolding that gives improved fuel supply to the combustion chamber and permits burned gases to escape with less resistance. L-Head Engine The engine, is the L-head type with a cylinder bore of 3% inches and a stroke ofg4”: inches. Rated taxable horsepower is 15.63. . A compression ratio of 648 and pressure lubrication to "all~ main connecting rod bearings are standard. A full synchro-mesh transmission is new this year, with helical rather than spur gears through three speeds and rod linkage to the remote comftrol lever on the steering (column. With the new hypoid rear axle, two universal joints are used. There is a new approach to the problem of ' dampening vibrations from- the engine to the transmis{sion by means of the clutch driving plate. The new clutch driving plate has hydraulic absorbers. A new cam-and-lever type of steering gear is used. The standard steering wheel has a 17-inch circumference and the car may be turned in a radius of 18 feet.

‘PILOT’ CLEARS WAY FOR LIGHTNING BOLTS

SWAMPSCOTT, Mass, Oct. 25 (U. P.).— Even. lightning must have a leader to follow in an electrical storm, according to G. D. McCann, Westinghouse electrical expert. Mr. McCann says that a weak, almost invisible, preliminary stroke known is the “pilot” picks its way through the atmosphere at the relatively slow speed of 100 miles a second. With a path thus cleared a pow-

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Times Special : CHICAGO, Oct. 25—The 1941 cars go a long way foward counteracting the two principal sources of

| winter driving accidents—loss of ‘|traction on snow and ice, and in-

adequate vision. This is the opinion of Municipal

» Who is president of the Safe Winter Driving League, following an examination of all new models. ’

“Cars are longer, a frifle Tower |

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