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About The Oregon statesman. (Salem, Or.) 1916-1980 | View Entire Issue (March 21, 1929)
14 The New OREGON STATESMAN. Salem, Oregon, Thursday Morning, March 21, 1929 ana ers in lis Development No Earri ll3Sm Forerunner of Servioe Across Country Seen In Lat est Plane A forerunner of bigger and better heavler-than-air transport planes, the twenty-passenger Key stone' "Patrician", tbe last word In aeronautical engineering, ar rived In Los Angeles a few days ago for a tour of the roast. According to Edgar Oott, presi dent of the Keystone Aircraft Corporation of Bristol. Pa., who is accompanying the big ship on its western tour. Us successful -i Deration has paved the wey for hips with a seating capacity for hirty-six passengers, designs for hlch are now nearing comple :on, in the company's factory. The "Patrician," the biggest passenger transport plane in op ration in the United States, is the first of twenty-four of the same ::ize to be completed by the Key stone factory. Thsse planes, when finished, are to be put into service on the newly created Pan American, Transcontinental Air Transport. Central Air Lines, nlc" and Southern Airways pasenger routes. TO SHOW (JRKAT STKIOK8 "In making this tour," said Mr. fiott, "we merely desire to show the people of the west the strides that are being made in aviation and to interest them further In air travel. Air pasenger travel is in creasing daily throughout the United States, and appears to be 'lestined to grow faster in the -tit two or three years than we onsidered possible a year ago." The "Patrician" has a wing Dread of 88 feet and an overall ngth of 63 feet, and weighs aded 15.000 pounds. Despite its :ulk the big green and gold plane handles with the ease of a small hip. The three 525 h. p., Wright 'yclone engines with which It is nowered lift it from the ground in from four to eight seconds, de fending upon the condition of the Held from which it is taking off : nd the force of the wind into vhich it is flying. The motors lrive the ship through the air at a cruising speed of from 120 to 130 miles an if our and ran be throttled down on lending to 58 miles an hour. The plane has a high sea level speed "f 150 miles an hour.' DWAIU S TVO-SKAT I'LAXK The ordinary two-s:ater com mercial plane along side of the "Patrician" looks unusualy dwarfed Even the larger pas senger planes appear small. It is possible to run most of the pas senger carrying p!anr- under one of the wings of the big ship, the top of which is thirte 'i feet from I he ground. The cabin of the p'ane is di vided into two compartments. The one Just back of the pilots, seats five persons, auu the larger one seats fitcen. Tho smaller one is filed up with a beith. The seats are luxuriously upholstered and every traveling eomiort of the passenger provided for. The cab in has thick insulation which deadens the drone of the motors BE OTP In pur show room tonight. You're welcome to call and look over these cars without obligation. It's a six in the price range of a four -.. t DOUGLAS i McKAY- More Car-sto oe Sold Than Ever Before Prediction of Leadsro in Great Industry JNSTEAD of pessimism which hs prevailed in some quar ters oyer the possible saturation of the American auto market, there is nothing but encouragement seen in a com prehensive review of the business throughout the United States as contained m a recent editorial in The Saturday Evening Post. MAKERS AND MEAftURgB Of Motor-car registrations for tho year 1928 showed a fain of 1,4000,000 evr those fpT 1927, not counting an Inert of motortrucks in exec of 220,000 writes the Saturday Evening Post in recent di gest of tb antoa aituatlon in which is intensely interesting and informative. Though IMS was a banner year In the auto bile industry and th whole sale value of its production of motor vehicles led that of 1927 by 1300.000.000. putting it over the $3,000,000,000 mark, there are grounds for believing that it is headed for even higher permanent levels. The amaz ing capacity of the American people for buying an ever-Increasing output of automobiles is a favorite barometer of our national prosperity. The production of tires for replacements showed extraor dinary gains- and exceeded" the 1927 figure of $595,000,000 by round $75,000,000. Tbe out put of parts for replacements and accessories jumped no less than $200,000, f00. Passenger-car registrations in the year past nummbered 21,630, 000. It is significant to note that the average price of cars dropped from $953 in 1927 an $876 in 1928. The price of trucks, likewise, shaded off from $1053 to $955. More over, the cars of 1928 were beter as well as cheaper than those of any previous year. There is no reason why we should not use the achieve ments of Jhe youngest of our giant industries to measure the rise of our national prosperity; but we should always take into account one fact which is too often overlooked namely, the enormous contribution which it is making to the body of new wealth and to the heightened standard of living which it measures. and makes conversation in ordin ary tones possible. The fuel supply of the "Pa cian" is one consideration. The three engines consume about 75 gallons of gasoline per hour. With the three gas tanks, which have a capacity of about 500 gallons, filled the plane can stay in the air for a little more than six hours. Through advance ar rangements made with the Union Oil company one of the company's trucks, filled with aviation gaso line was on hand to refuel the ship at every stop. Capt. St. Clair Strtt, chief of and recognized as one of the best flyers in the service, is piloting the "Patrician" on this tour. He is being assisted by Ken G. Fras er, executive assistant of the Key stone Aircraft corporation. SURE TO 430 North Coxnmrecial Th manufacture of motor vehicles has many character istic which set It in place apart from all other American toduatri. It la one which has grown by sheer merit from nothing to ita present vast pro portions. It waa started on a shoestring. Th banks step mothered it rather than moth ered it; and not nntll it waa fairly well established could they be counted npon to give much financial support either to the manufacturers or to the concerns which made parte or to potential customers. Even from the early days the industry has had the inestim able advantage of an unusual ly high type of leadership. A great factor "ln it steady growth has been the type of men responsible for it, a group of executives of uncommon vi sion, courage and optimism. In ralsinri - them elves these men havqiraa th4 ;schoolmast ers of jathVr'indWtries as well as their own. The object les sons they have given in mass production, in the employment of labor-saving machinery, in the progress which can be made by the incessant application of mechanical ingenuity and in the improvement of nation-wide distribution and service which has ' been achieved by enlight ened methods, are standing benefits to the whole manu facturing world. Moreover, the ever-Increasing demand which the public puts upon the manu facturer has provided the urge to press on to mechanical per fection. ALTO BEST TRANSPORTATION The automobile industry has unquestionably given us the speediest, the most agreeable and the most convenient trans portation to be found anywhere upon the surface of the globe. From this achievement flow not only health and pleasure but a time-saving factor which has the efefct of adding stand ard efficiency. Heightened efficiency brings greater earn ing power. Increased earning power means greater buying power; and the increase of lei sure due to constant time sav ing afofrds more ample oppor tunity for the exercise of the spending power. Comfortable and wholesome living raises efficiency another peg and at the same time brings new in centives to labor that will, be still more productive. The perception of this invis ible chain of cause and effect, the recognition of this hithrr- to unknown cycle, is perhaps the greatest economic discov ery which has ben made in our time. The automobile Indus- -try has been more largely re- SEE'" sponsible for 'the building up of thij theory and for the prac tical demonstration o Its truth than any- other ajncl ag?njjy, whether" in the fleta qt indus try oT lh that of textbook econ omies. ' GENERAL PROGRESS Thla U not the whole story. The effect of th rS of automobile industry SaVe Men national and general aVwell at local and personal. It" baa been son effective than &r other agency In securing the ex tension of improved roada; and good roads are the corner stone of material civilisation. Cheap and able motor cars and an Improved asytam of high way hay had an inealcuable effect npon th unification of the country arising from exten sive travel for pleasure and business. Improvements of the internal-combustion engine hava not only brought the motor ear near mechanical per fection but have mad possible the conquest of the air. En gine makers are daily proving the substantial truth of the say ing that the kitchen table will fly If it is equipped with a mo tor light enough and powerful 'so indirectly at that the auto mobile industry, haa given man a new dimension in which to travel. EATORT TRADE I P The export trade In Ameri can motor cars which, only a few years Ago, was scarcely worthy of the attention of the statistician has grown to such an extent that in 1928 we sold 810,000 motor vehicles outside the United States, which repre sents an Increase of twenty-six per cent over the figure for 1927; and the importation of foreign motor vehicles fell off Loder Bros. Will present a Motion Pic ture showing the internal Working Parts of the Graham-Paige, 4 Speed Trans mission with 2 High Gears at their Salesroom 445 Cen ter St. at 7:30 P. M. Thursday Evening March 21st You are cordially invited to attend this Motion Picture. No Charge and No Obligation Loder Bros. Graham Paige Sales and Service for Marion A Polk counties by a percentage almost as great. .The most direct and most eaaily a praised cjTntribulipnrto national prosperity" noade by the Industry have not yet beenmea tioned. The capital Invested Open At 1 TUB "V . and th I : VJMM(KT SDSL jj. ,."tj" ' V-'i fejTfYyi J$Y dDAICLABJUD -mZy- vTrlp PRODUCT OF GENERAL MOTORS 0 ANNOUNCING Salem9 New OPERATED JOINTLY BY AlfretBairdey iff r - - V; L Aifdarscn, Ibc. - .t" G)rher Liberty and Marion Streets in the business is measured by billions and the number of persons employed, directly and indirectly, exceeds four mil lions. A a user of steel, rub ber, glass, textUe and other commodities it keeps at work MOMS Come audi See llotar Co. other billions of or.pJtal and an other armies of labor. The fjtrength and vitality of the Industry tie ia a fewajm- ple and bask circumstance product ia not only esaentl to our present civilisation but it ia Tonight V Hfek B8 IVhippeMViHys Ifcighl Soto aniveraaii 4fclr4 who walk ar vikisg MtUc harder in rdr Ut PeinUy they may rid; as$ !. Jyvr no meant left. tb bejgsr tb prodt MO! U?'Jr th price demanded far H. mamtmmM Street at Trade E L t.
