The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1927-06-15
Tail Light
by SWEDE SWANSON

The Graham brothers, who pur-
chased the Paige-Detroit Motor Car
Company recently, have followed
that by purchasing the Wayne Body
Corporation plant at Wayne, Mich,
about fifteen miles from Detroit.
The purchase was made by the
Graham brothers as individuals, but
it is intended that it shall be turned
over to the Paige Company at the
same price as was paid for it, as
soon as the plan providing for the
purchase of control by the Graham
brothers is approved by Paige
stockholders,
Work Immediately will be under
taken to make an up-to-date body
plant of the property. Modern ma
chinery for the manufacture of GUS
tom bodies will be installed.
A law requiring motorists to give
standard hand signals before start
ing, stopping or turning from a di-
rect line goes into effect soon in
North Carolina. Under a section
Of the uniform code, motor vehicle
operators intending to turn to the
left or right or to stop must signal
with the hand and during the last
fifty feet Travelled.
Provisions that a driver before
staring or turning must sound his
horn to warn pedestrians or other
vehicle operators were made. "Adop-
ton of these signals" says C. w.
Roberts, vice president of the Caro-
lima Motor Club, Should result in
decreased accidents and save many
tenders hard knocks"
This is what is known as being
completely sold. Twenty Studebakers
in twenty years is the record of the
family of George K. Schmidt. presi-
dent of the Prudential State Savings
Bank of Chicago, to whom the
twentieth car, a Studebaker custom
victoria, recently has been deliv-
cred.
After many months Of negotia-
tons, the General Motors Corpora
ton through its overseas organiza-
ton purchased land in Sweden for
the erection of an assembly plant.
A most advantageous site has been
obtained in Stockholm and it is
expected that building operations
will be started shortly. The action
of the Riksdag in reducing the I'M
port duty on automobile parts was
instrumental in bringing about the
consummation of the plan.
Ford Motor Company at Buffalo,
N. Y, has been picking up ship
ments of Houdallie shock absorbers
at the Houdallie factory and deliv-
ering them to the Buffalo airport,
where they are shipped by plane to
Lincoln factory at Detroit, Mich.
The new Ford all-metal plane has
three engines and freight carrying
capacity of 1900 pounds and total
flying weight of 8,400 pounds. The
trip from Buffalo to Detroit is made
in about two hours and fifteen
minutes.
B. F. Goodrich Rubber Company
has purchased forty-five acres of
land outside of Los Angles for erec-
ton of a Pacific coast factory to be
devoted to the manufacture of tires
and tubes. This new plant will
have a production capacity of be-
tween 5000 and 5000 tires daily and
will be in operation early in 1928. 1t
will employ in the neighborhood of
5000 ment.
Goodrich decided upon a Pacific
coast plant, according to officials, to
be in a better position to meet the
rapidly growing demands of the
coast trade. The Akron plant al
ready is overcrowded, as production
has increased steadily until it has
become necessary to increase manu-
featuring facilities to relieve this
situation.