Evening star., 1935-06-16
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With indications that manufactur-
ing volume will be sustained well
into July for many companies, 1t is
evident that the aggregate for the
first half of the year will go we'll above
1000. 900 and establish substantial
basis for predictions that 1885 may
prove better than a 1000, ,000-car year.
While the lowest-priced makes-in-
Guiding the Big Three" Ford, Chev-
rolet and Plymouth-have recorded
heavy increases in production, the
makes mentioned previously repre-
sent medium priced value, and, during
the depression years, were less in de-
mand. Their comeback" is regarded
as signifying a brighter future for their
price class.
Diesel-powered vehicles continue to
OCCUPY factory engineering depart
ments. The immediate future for the
Diesel power plants is in the CONNER
cial vehicle field, where operators OF
large fleets are eager to cut down oper-
ating costs through substitution OF
fuel oil for gasoline.
The possibilities are being studied IN
the light of interest shown IN TINS
years international motor show in
Berlin. In this show, 1t has been said
that more than 90 per cent of the
trucks and buses exhibited were Die
sel-eouipped, in addition to fire en-
rines, ambulances, tractors, mail vans,
field kitchens, rail. cars and service
wagons.
Diesel use in passenger car opera
ton still appears to be matter OF
ultimate development, although there
promises to be international rivalry
for speed achievements. This first be-
came evident in recent trials OF two
demonstration cars at Daytona Beacn,
Fla.
In the first one, Dave Evans, driving
a "Waukesha" of racing structure, did
125O65 miles an hour on the beach
course and bettered a mark of 120.33
miles per hour made by Capt. G. E. T.
Eyston on a French track. The Evans
record in turn was beaten by Wild
Bill" Cummings, A. A. A. champion
pilot, who drove Cummings-Diesel at
137.195 miles per hour.
Capt. Eyston has arranged to cross
the ocean this Summer in an attempt
to outdo the Cummings Diesel per-
formance. He will use the dry lake
desert course at Salduro, Utah. He
is to drive a British-built Diesel.
Evans. 1t is stated. has taken out an
A. A. A. sanction for a second attempt,
which also is to be made on one Of
the desert courses.
Speed as an index of motor car en-
durance promises new Summer sea-
son of activity in the Far West. The
scenes of operations will be the dry
lake or fiat desert areas Of Utah and
California.
According to advices from England,
three noted British drivers, bringing
with them cars specially built, are to
invade America in quest of speed
achievements which it is hoped will
enhance the prestige of Britain as
producer Of automobiles.
First will come John Cobb, sports
man, who will use a Railton- Napier
car equipped with Napier-Lion en-
CINE of the aero type, to try for a "a
hour record now credited to Pierce
Arrow driven by Alb Jenkins.
Following Cobb, according to plans,
Sir Malcolm Campbell, holder of the
worlds maximum land speed mark Of
276.59 miles an hour, will return to
this country for a second visit this
year. In the Spring he was at Day.
tona Beach, Fla, and, in his famous
'Bluebird," with its Rollys-Royce en-
CINE, he ran approximately miles an
hour faster than he did in 1884 trial
over the same course.
The third British pilot who plans
to cross the Atlantic is Capt. G. e. T.
Eyston. whose intention it is to try to
better one-hour record now credited
to Hans von Stuck, German driver,
who used German suto-union car
to set mark Of 134.9 miles an hour.
Eyston also has his eye on top
speed for Diesels. This record belongs
to America through performance Of
Bill Cummings at Daytona this
Spring. In an oil-burning racer built
by the Cummins &C. O. Engine Co.
of Columbus, Ind, he did 137.195
miles an hour. For Diesel trials,
Eyston intends to bring out a fast job
powered with a 130-horsepower en-
gine built by the Associated Equip
ment Co. of England.
All three Britons plan to take cars
and crews of mechanics to Salduro,
Utah, where there Is q fiat, hard-sur-
faced desert area suitable for their
trials. It is reached by way of Salt
Lake City and Wendover, Utah. For
Campbell, who needs long straight
away, It provides 12-mile stretch, on
which he hopes to cut loose at any
time he desires without being subject
to the uncertainties of wind and ocean
tides, as he has been during Florida
beach trials. His objective is 300
miles an hour.
Cobb and his Railton- Napier are
scheduled to reach New York around
July 8. Reid A. Railton, British en-
gineer, also designed the Campbell
sBluebird."
In the desert expanses of the West
there are three vast and perfectly
level prehistoric lake beds that have
been used for motor car trials dur
ing the last three years. One Is at
6alduro. There is a second at Bon
neville, Utah, and q third at Muroc
Lake, Calf. For trials Of Ameri-
can cars all three have been used at
various times for different makes.
The most recent was made at Muroc
In April, when a Hudson sedan estab-
lished IS new closed car marks. In
August of last year Chrysler and De
~ln fok fn
vile and in the hands of professional
drivers set groups of new marks in
the engine claSsifications they repre-