Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 25, Number 285, Decatur, Adams County, 3 December 1927 — Page 6

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NEW FORD HAS MANY FEATURES New Car Lives Up To Prediction Made By Henry Ford, The Builder Detroit, Dec. 3—Six months ago Henry Ford announced the coniine production of "a new Ford car. superior in design and performance to any now available in the low priced, lightcar field." Friday, the new car was shown for the first time outside the Ford organization lo a group of newspaper nu-n and correspondents, at. the Dearborn laboratories of the Ford Motor Company. What the correspondents saw was an automobile a, new as the forecasts had represented it to be. They saw bodies with beauty of line and color, and with every accessory that has come to be associated with cars of a much higher price class. They saw performance that would compare favorably with almost any automobile of the day—speed. pickup, flexibility, power. What they did not see, however. was the six months of preparation back of that car, which in magnitude and accomplishment is unique in world industry. When Mr. Ford announced to the public that he was to introduce a new I car he had not only conceived this car. but it was already well on the way to materialization. In the years that the Model T has been produced many inventions, ideas, improvements hid presented themselves which did not fit into the scheme of the Model T. Many of these things were retained, against the day when new ideas of automotive efficiency would pave the way for a new car. The formal announcement, last May. was principally significant because it marked the end of production of the Model T as a complete unit. Cessation of production of the Model T, did. however, turn the full . tone of the vast organization of the Ford company to the problem of ere-, attng and producing a new car, with the exception of that part of the facil-■ ities necessary for the production of I Model T replacement parts. This i meant opportunity for the recon-] struciion of not one plan*, but many.; Thirty-three assembly plants in the United States, the Ford Motor Company jf Canada. a»d twelve plants in foreign countries had to be considered. A gi eater problem still, tne foun-tain-head of the parts to feed the branch plants had to lie rebuilt almost from the ground—the great ■ Ford industries at Highland Park, at Fordson, and along the River Rouge. Impressive figures almost without end could be quoted to illustrate the magnitude of this task. There have been estimates that the job cost as high as $250,000,000 to accomplish. This figure is too high—how much so, Ford officials will not say. But it was a staggering total of millions, unquestionably. Strange as it may seem, however. Henry Ford did not figure in terms of millions. He was building a new car —a car which would be as much of an improvement of its day, as the Model T was back in 1908. Engineers took cert tin basic principles and built around them a new car When it was completed it was very close to the car that Mr. Ford had visualized. It was then that Mr. Ford gave voice to a statement that has been frequently quoted since: “I will represent the public.” Even his engineers did not sense the full significance of this simple 1 statement at the time. The plants' were being re-tooled. Re tooling an I antomobile plant designed to produce I thousands c.t automobiles in a day is; no simple matter. Giant machines] weighing many tons and costing thou-i sands of dollars had to be designed I and built. Countless thousands of smaller tools and precision instru-l ments had to be designed and built. 1 Countless thousands of smaller tools I and precision instruments had to be manufactured. Ordersl were placed ■ with machinery manufacturers for many of these machines Others were built in the Ford plants. But Mr. Ford was “representing the public A small change meant the reconstruction of great machines which required four months to build. But if this change meant a slightly greater gasoline mileage, or a trifle more acceleration in traffic, the machine was rebuilt. And so the story went. ■Mr. Ford stated again and again that he was not building a model to meet a specific date or a predetermined price. His aim was fixed on an automobile that would be as revolutionary in 1927 as' the Model T was in 1908. These are some of the reasons, in the opinion of members of the Ford organization, why cost figures of the transition from the Model T to the Model A mean little. In the final analysis, they say, most of this expense will be absorbed in greater production and in higher plant efficiency The maximum production in the days of the Model T was 8.400 per day. The reconstructed Ford industj 'ies will have a capacity even greater than that. This will not be reached for some time, but the capacity is there, to be appeoaehed as market de-

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mantis indicate. Mr. Ford has stated that the coal and iron mines, the glass plant and I other "feeder" industries of the Ford i Motor Company exact no profit— that the only source of profit is the Font car. But these “feeder" industries have been enlarged and strengthened during the period of transition. Tlie assembly line it the Fordson i plant today is creeping slowly, as compared with the normal production, but j leach day sees increasing speed Bat k !of that assembly line, in the units] where the parts are made which feed the assembly, a more impressive idea | ’ of what has taken place in the Ford I : industries may lie had. Working limits w.iich would do

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DECATUR DAILY DEMOCRAT SATURDAY, DECEMBER 3, 1927.

| credit to some of the iinest automqi biles of today are being imposed in | many departments. Variations of | more than one ten-thousandths of an ! inch are not permitted in many parts. The speed that characterised production of tlie Model T is being attained, but it is speed with almost uncanny accuracy. Henry Ford is demonstrating that his mass-production methods can be applied to the manufacture of i any type of car. without sacrificing i the mechanical accuracy which is ] essential to maximum performance of the finished automobile. | He is demonstrating something alls o, at which engineers are marveling I —he is utilizing methods which had been pronounced impractical. Elec-

trlcal welding of essential parts, such us the rear-end assembly, is being employed, with a consequent strength-1 ening of the car, and elmilnation of sources of noise and trouble. Spun steel forgings are being used in a x ay that L new to the automotive in-; diifitry. New features of fonr-cylin-1 der motor design have resulted in greater power and flexibility than ha<l been untielpnted. And so the story goes- a story of new methods, revolutionary principles of manufacture. of design This is spme of the background of the new Ford car which is to be en-! countered by those who dig into the story of the happenings of the last six months. It is a story which will lie inuny more months in unfolding, as the American and foreign assembly plants swing into line for the pro* duction of complete cars. —It A. » 7-* —o Ages Ago In Mexico Jazz Horn Players Did Blare And Blow Phoenix, Ariz., —(UP)—The aborti gines of Mexico, may too, have had their saxaphone pests, their “syncopating Sues.” and their black bottom days. Ou the other side of the Rio Grande in the land of revolutions and shortlived presidential candidates, the Mexican Irving Berlins were versed in jazz music thousands of years ago. according to Harold Lyman Brown, archaeologist. of Portland, Maine, who 1 here on his way to Chicago from Mexico City. "Excavators in the Mexican valley" Brown said, "have unearthed strange implements which resemble modern instruments of jazz. These discoveries bore evidence of a prehistoric race with a propensity for syncopation." Horns made from animal tusks capable of producing wierd moans like a saxaphone have been found there, he declared. Other instruments resembled modern clarinet*. Brown stated that the musical relics of Mexico Valley would be turned over to the American Museum of Natural History. Use Limberlcst Washing Powdec.

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