New Britain herald., 1928-02-06
tBy FRANK J. cARsloDY.)


 If 1t really ts news when man bites a dog then. by the same token. it must be news when one medium of transportation sees and comedies virtue in | newborn competitor. Such thing has happened. Depart ing radically from the traditional at. titude in this respect. the automobile industry and it's allies have been the first to accord full recognition to the airplane as the fastest medium of transportation and one that fills n very definite need In the transporta- ton scheme of thingA
 It readily is conceded In every quarter that the automobile indus try has established a record for pro- gresaiveness that is unexcelled In industrial history. It's readiness In adopting unit of transportation that eventually. a least, probably will prove its greatest competitor does much to sustain this judgment. Names Ar0 By-Wortls.
 A glance at the skies over any Of the automobile manufacturing cen- ters quickly shows tho measure of recognition that automobile makers have accorded the airplane. For. the planes. to be seen in this glance will carry the names of their owners and those names in many cases are by words wherever the automobile Is known.
 While it may be startling. 1t Is not strange that the motor car maker has adoped the plane. Speed. dar- ing. amazing enterprise. these are the attributes generally credited with holding the secret of tho automobile industry's succaA The plano fits ideally into this appraisal. That is why 1t is being used to transport motor makers from this point to that, b. .nging executives to hastily called conferences, rushing necessary partsto factories that rarely can af- ford to be idle and generally serving to rush endorsements to any poinr along the far-flurg front upon which the industry operates.
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 Among those leaders in the auto- motive and allied fields who have been the first to add the plane as . necessary item of their high-speed equipment are three which are known every 1h gre and which may be regarded aa typical. The Ford Motor Company. which also manu- factures planes of course. undoubt- edly Is the greatest user. The Standard Oil Company of Indiana provides lts executives with aerial transportation which has been used to the extent of 14.000 miles by 70t passengers. Officials of the company can reach oil producing regions, re- mote refineries and widely scatter- ed divisional offices in a few hours where before tho trips were a mat ter of days.
 The most noteworthy trip of this character was made during the last summer when the entire board of directors of the company attendeo meetings in Denver and Kansas City on consecutive days and were back in Chicago 36 hours after they had left the Illinois metropolis for the journey which covered more than 2.o0o miles The plane, owned by this company, carries all the com forts of home with the exception. of course, of it's renowned cooking. In addition to the deeply upholstered chairs and three bertha there are waahrooms and baggage compart- ments.
 A number of other oil companies including the Wayco, the Manhattan and several others are employinc planes in similar ways.
 Continental Mot0rs.
 Another plane that sees a great deal of service is that which belongs to the Continental Motors Corpora tion. Plying between the Detroi: ana Muskcgon plants of this con- ccrn. the plane has reduced the time of the trip from seven hours to two and. in doing this. 1t is rated as one