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...flats of Dagenham, for instance, where the last of the river pirates were hanged on a gibbet a few centuries ago, Ford Motor Co., Ltd., of England has one of the biggest, busiest automobile plants in Europe-34 acres, 15,000 men under one roof. Furthermore, as of the time I was there the car and commercial vehicle sections of the British motor industry had already exceeded their export goals...
...weeks the corridors of Detroit's General Motors Building buzzed with rumors. President Charles Erwin Wilson had been very busy-and very quiet. G.M.'s top brass, so the gossip went, was in for the biggest shake-up in years. This week the shaking started. The biggest shake of all was given Harlow H. ("Red") Curtice, 55, the slight, reserved general manager of the Buick Motor division. He was moved up to the newly created job of G.M. executive vice president in charge of all nonproduction activities except finance (labor relations, public relations, etc.) The promotion...
Newsmen trooped into the sprawling plant of Continental Motors Corp. in Detroit last week to see a highly touted "revolution." The revolution turned out to be a new, lightweight, air-cooled engine developed by Continental for Army Ordnance. As Continental's President Clarence ("Jack") Reese unveiled it, he predicted that the new engine would first revolutionize the building of motors for U.S. Army tanks and motor vehicles, then commercial trucks and buses, and that ultimately it would drive a cheaper, high-powered...
...engine, said Jack Reese, can be made in four, six, eight or twelve cylinders. (The cylinders are finned like an aircraft air-cooled engine.) A 4-cylinder motor weighing 770 pounds develops 250 horsepower and takes up little more space than the radiator and fan of a comparable liquid-cooled engine...
...truck companies are ready to order it as soon as it is in production. So Reese thinks it will be at least two years before the new Continental brings about any changes in passenger cars. In any case, Reese expects that it will be hot competition for General Motors' new high-compression motor shown this week, and that it will return Continental to the place in the auto engine industry that it once held...