Ogden Standard-Examiner | 1923-11-25 | Page 14 | How European Auto is Made

IMM AUTO IS MACE Slow Manufacture Be- Be Because Because Be Because cause Many Parts Ham Ham- Hammered Hammered Hammered Out By Hand The popular Impression that Eu- Eu Eu European automotive engineering Is to American engineering eng methods Is not entirely justified according to Benjamin hid engineer ot or the Oakland Mo- Mo Motor Mo Motor tor company Midi oho who ho ts just jut returned from froll a two I months tour during wirich hoI ho it vis visited I fled IlcI the tho leading notor nolor car plants I of It Great Britain I tango c Belgium Hal Italy and nd ind S end also I the tho Faris an and 1 London auto shows This Is particularly p II title ue in ret- ret rence to e a that would tor for ift i plain In the tho design of ot motOI a car nw n t er seems to hale e hn s economic 1 production as its I Each ach individual trl tries s to make e c automobile 1101 dIes ot of the tIe cost the 1 h result I Is that tho I 11 dual features In many cac cases I the whim ot of the i ner The The largest larg-eal dally production ot of any ny motor car r In Europe 13 about cars while numerous nl melee mako m l o but hut one or two 0 cars a 0 da day Hand hammering or of I Is 13 more common than the tho stampIng ot of parts puts in dies such as anre l lare ore are used In this countr country Uj When V hen 3 you ou see se workmen In the largest motor car factory In I Cu-I Eu- Eu Europe Eu rop rope hammering the tender fender Into I shape hape b by hand you ou realize how tar far they t till still ha has hac hae c e to go to te I our production methods I t ou know linow that this same company compan pith a production of o 1 ISO O cars dally daly cs e ten h 6 and r 1 7 0 men Sou ou realize why hy the European cars coat so much to produce Time rho majority ot of European fac- fac fac factories tories I our large shops with a II great ma- ma may ma 3 y of the th parts fashioned b byrand by rand There Thero Is also much l case Work 01 such as aa polishing the tho crank crank- crankcase lease crank In In fact tact there li Is no foundation r the belief that European en- en rn sneering Is in advance nd of ot our practice Practically aU all ot of tho the features exhibited at ttO tle r Parts nn and anil London shows are aro al- al al I reads found round on American car cars In- In in- in in eluding including wheel tour brakes which are aro rapidly being being- adopted by the theyron vron pron makers li la this country At At the tho Paris show how more mor than thanT 7 75 per cent of or the cars exhibited I l i wheel four-wheel brakes I saw about fifteen of ot the tho leadIng makes t of car CArs exhibited at the London how chow had 11 equipment It is interesting to note that no Royce rolls Ro ce Illch has been boen cIted its S an n outstanding supporter of ot too tl wheel hpe rl brakes Issued a formal m- m announcement an announcement at the London show stating that on and anI after I Novem lir Ir hr 1 their 50 40 horsepower er chas chas- chas r ou woud be he fitted with nith Ith Crakes brakes rakes on all four wheels heels The The adoption of the wheel four four altes by Rolls Rolls-Roco Rolls Rolls-Ro co made a aI I profound Impression on the Eng Eng- Enc lish lih public as well as aj In to the tho trade trado I and It Is only a matter of ot time I before the th remainder of of the motor mo- mo motor tor car makers nn- nn fall tall into line I