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...Packard v. Ford. If you possess or know any one who possesses a Dos-A-Dos (an electric automobile seating four per- sons, back to back, manufactured by the Pope Mfg. Co. in 1898), communicate with Henry Ford of Detroit, Mich., and he will no doubt smile with pleasure. Mr. Ford wants a Dos-A-Dos because his engineers believe that it was equipped with 'demountable & interchangeable wheels. The Packard Motor Car Co. has brought a patent infringement suit against the Ford Motor Co. because of the demountable & interchangeable wheels on the new Fords. Thus, a Dos-A-Dos might...
...jumpy two or three year sin' that some o' oor American papers said that Herbert got his feegurs sae badly jumle't that he made statements showin' that the British, through Stevenson's rubber control, were forcin' us American motorists (I rin a Packard masel') tae pay in increased price for oor tires some three or fowre hunner million dollars a year mair than the price o' a' the rubber that was imported into the kintra...
Diesel. Near Utica, Mich., last week, Packard Motor Co. successfully tested the first Diesel type engine to be used in an aircraft, declared that the oil burning motor increased efficiency 25%, banished danger of fire from gasoline, eliminated electric ignition systems, carburetors, spark plugs, other nuisances...
Autos & Planes. Continental Motors has begun to make motors for airplanes. Ford, Packard and Auburn have long been connected with flying, General Motors not at all. Yet the du Ponts have given financial backing to Guiseppe Bellanca, plane designer. And the du Ponts are a large part of General Motors. So the industrial surmise is not so wild that General Motors will soon make airplanes and equipment...
...plans are a government secret, but it is safe to say that the new ships will be longer and possibly more efficient than the Los Angeles (built in Germany as Zeppelin ZR-3). They will have either Maybach or Packard engines. The top speed of the Los Angeles is 70 m. p. h. and she has made a non-stop journey of 5,060 miles. She carries a crew of 45; but she is capable of carrying 100 passengers, who can stroll her length (656 feet) in "cat walks" built inside her envelope...