AERONAUTICS: Super-Motors

Detroit is a city of great manufacturing executives. None of them is greater than Alvan Macauley, President of the Packard Motor Car Co. A great, burly man with a firm yet benevolent face, a steady eye and a firm handshake, he combines perfect business efficiency with imagination and public spirit* At the present moment, the Packard Company may make tens of thousand of excellent automobiles per annum, but the production of a few super-motors for the Air Services pleases Mr. Macauley a great deal more.

The aero engine must meet much severer requirements than...

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