Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 12 September 1941 — Page 10

AUTO NEWS

Newspapermen Thrilled by Impressive

Demonstration of G. M. Defense Weapons

“*s By DAVID MARSHALL , Times Staff Writer MILFORD, Mich, Sept. 12—Somebody: should ‘have invited Adolf Hitler to the General Motors defense demonstration for. ‘newspapermen here Wednesday. Had Herr Schickelgraber come, the “things fe saw probably would have sent him off to Berchtesgaden to ponder long before starting any monkey-business with the United States. : He would have seen the Allison-powered Lockheed Lightning Interceptor come screaming out of cotton-candy clouds at 485 miles an hour alg troops like a Package of exploding firecrackers with its machine gun fire He would have felt the ground quiver as a flight of Bell Airacobras, * the world’s only rear-engined fighters (built around Allison engines) hedge-hopped over poplar trees and whipped down a gulley to strafe a truck convoy with 30-caliber machine guns and blast open a tank with 37-mm. nose cannons. Those machine guns, spitting out from the wings, fire 1400 shots a minute and have a muzzle velocity of half a * mile a second and a range of 2.9 miles,

“convoy of transport trucks through a valley while Lockheed Lightning Interceptors roar overhead.

And then Herr Hitler could have seen our Navy's answer to the deadly Stuka dive bomber—the Oerlikon gun. The Oerlikon is the hardest anti-aircraft gun to produce, the simplest to operate, and probably the world’s most potent. (It is highly maneuverable, can be completely dismantled in five minutes and the Briyish say an operator can be trained to use it in 15 minutes.

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Fires Sensitive Shell

IT FIRES the smallest known explosive shell at a rate approaching a machine gun and the shells are so sensitive they will explode when they hit a piece of paper. Bombers, diving at 400 miles an hour, must come down to at least 2000 feet to bomb with fair accuracy. Under these conditions they will be in range only about 20 seconds. In that time, an Oerlikon gun crew can get in about 175 shots. Each shell hit will open a one-foot hole. Three or four hits and the wind will do the rest. Too, Hitler could have seen the GM transport truck which can outperform anything the Army has, in startling ways. Dries from four or six wheels, it will climb a 60 per cent grade (so steep none of us could walk up more than a quarter of it). Or it can climb that same hill in reverse. For steeper grades—like 75 per cent—the truck will pull itself up by a winch which winds a cable lashed to a tree or stump on the hill’s top. All of these demonstrated materials were but the more dramatic instruments being produced by General Motors in 60 plants under 500 defense contracts. There are hundreds of others; among them: Propellers, Pratt & Whitney engines, shells, gun control equipment, mine fuses, tanks, black-out lamps, tank and aircraft bearings, and aviation electrical parts. The amazing amount of production of these machines of war would have given pause to thé man who orders results by threats of death rather than by be i Sight -hour shifts. : :

Allison Engine Praised

TAKE THE ALLISON ENGINE—it is a splendid example of what can be done when things must be done. Two years ago all the space now

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occupied by the Allison plants at Speedway City, Ind., was farmiand. |

Now it contains plants where there are 12,000: to 15,000 highly technical workers producing engines at the rate of 700 a month. By Christmas the rate will be 1000 a month. A year ago GM had delivered $34,000,000 worth of defense products, then thought a huge total. In 1940's last quarter that total had climbed to $43,700,000. Estimates are that during 1941 GM will’ produce more than $400,000,000 of defense material. And its productive capacity is only being about half used. If shipping lanes can be kept open, and certain raw materials not available in this country but available in sufficient quantities abroad can continue to be imported, the final limitation of production of defense and consumer goods, GM officials believe, -will undoubtedly be the supply oi available labor. What General Motors and other concerns are doing to conserve materials, also will increase defense production. For example, nine critical materials together with the curtailment in volume of cars produced already has saved 210,000,000 pounds of material. ” # 8 ® o 8 THE 1942 GM CARS have grilles of steel stampings, cast iron parts in carburetors. Other ornamental parts were changed to antimonial Jead. Thus, by ‘redesign, GM saved about 64 per cent, or 92 million pounds, 6f zinc. Substituting cast iron and arma steel for aluminum plus volume curtailment released 14,000,000 pounds. of aluminum, enough to build 1550 medium bombers or 2300 pursuit ships. Also by redesign, substitution and curtailment, 5,899,000 pounds of nickel and 92,300 pounds of magnesium were saved. Volume reduction of 54.5 per cent in cars for the 1942 model year also effected these savings: Chromium, almost :5,000,000 pounds; copper, 55,600,000 pounds; lead, nearly 35,000,000 pounds; and tin, about 3,000,000

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