Imperial Valley press., 1928-08-25
NO COMPETITION
BETWEEN PLANES
AND A u 7 0 s
Chevrolet Executive Says
Each Industry Will Be
Aid to Other.

! DETROIT, Mich, Aug. %
] Especial What effect airplane
! development will have on the auto
mobile has frequently been discus
sed by those close to both industries
as well as by laymcn interested in
the transportation methods the fu-
+ turc may evolve.
Is an era of keen competition
ahead Will the airpIanc relegate
| the automobile to place beside the
horse and buggy!
Decidedly 10. in the opinion of H.
j. klingler, general sales manager
of the Chevrolet Motor Company.
The two industries will rather fol-
low parallel lines of development,
with each one aiding the other. the
Chevrolet sales leader dccared in an
interview here today.
There will be no more competi-
tion between the airplane and the
automobile than there is between
the newspaper and the radio -
Klingler stated. "When the radio
first began broadcasting news dis
patches. there was talk of it sup
planting the newspaper. Today the
newspaper prints radio news, and
the news items broadcast by the
radio rather whet the appetites of
newspaper readers. Each one serves
the other.
u believe the airplane and the
automobile will follow similar lines
of development.
Il believe that for every air
plane that goes in the air at least
two automobiles will 60 on the
ground.
The owner of an airplanc will
need an automobile to take him
from his home to the airport. He
will need another ear to take him
from the landing field downtown
to his destination. Meanwhile his
wife and family will need a ear at
home while his is parked at the air
port awaiting his return. Every
flight will call into use At least two
or three cars.
There will be no competition be
tween the airplanc and the automo-
mobile because the airplanc can
serve only a restricted field of
transportation. 1t is essentially a,
rapid mefium of long distance trav
cl L does not have the flcxibility
or the all around utility of the auto
mobile.
The motor ear takes the bust
ness man to work in the morning.
1t carries the professional man, who
has many stops to make, on his trip
over town. 1t takes the wife down
town shopping, the family to visit
friends. or on week end or vacation
trips. 1t does this without regard to
distance or conditions of the, wealth
er.
There is this further interesting
distinction between the airplanc
and the automobile. The motor car
as an economic necessity only after
it had gained wide popularity as an
instrument of pleasure.
The airplane, on the other hand,
has been an instrument of business
from the start. 1t is serving now
mainly in aerial photography, in
TRANSPORTING mail, motion pictures
and other quick freight, and in pro
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tant points. Its utility is limited to
this highly restricted field which in
no sense encroaches on the automo-
bile
Both the automobile and the
airplane are propelled by internal
bustion engines Hence any
new discovery made in one industry
will be available for the other. Air
craft motor building now Is largely
based on lessons learned in the de-
velopmcnt of the automobile.
AS mass production served au-
tomobiles in bringing them to
basis of low first cost and cconoml-
cal transportation, so | believe II
will aid the airplane, in limited
measure, in reducing air transpor-
tation cost per mile. But at the
same time great national super
highways will speed up automobile
travel nearer To that now attained
bv airplanes. Each will be able to
serve better in its own field.