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The New OREGON STATESMAN. Salem, Oregon, Thursday Morning, March 21, 1929
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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
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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-
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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
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