Evening Republican, Volume 19, Number 283, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 30 November 1915 — Page 4 Advertisements Column 3 [ADVERTISEMENT]

MAMMOTH MACHINE , CUTS CAR’S PRICE Moving i’lalform For Entire Amenably Operation On Maxwell Cara. BARE FRAME STARTS In Lees Than Four Hours, Finished Car Rolls Off the Other End. One machine tool, nearly 1,000 feet long, plays an important part in the manufacture of each Max wed 1 automobile. This machine, costing many thousands to install, 'has neverthleas (helped make it possible for the Maxwell Motor Co., Inc., to chop nearly SIOO off the list price of its oar for the 1910 season, through the increased production capacity which it affords, and the simplification of the labor schedule in the assembly operation. When “Pay As You Ride” Shafer, of the Main Garage, local Maxwell distributors, was in Detroit, Walter E. Flanders, president and general manager of the Maxwell 00., showed him this machine —a moving platfoim with tributary machinery, on which the Marwell cars are assembled, on what Mr. Flanders terms the progressive plan. This progressive assembly, Mr. Shafer declares, is a wonderful climax of manufacturing science. If occupies a strip along one side of the Detroit Maxwell factories. The room ife 1,000 feet by 150—one-story and flooded with sunshine. The platform progresses 23 inches a minute. At one end men roW on this platform a string of low-wheeled trucks, each bearing a bare, unpainted frame. This frame journeys steadily from, one end «f the platform to the other, nearly 1,000 feet away. It’s progrlfes is flanked with stock rooms from which emerge, men with steady Streams of automobile parts and units. Alongside the platform stand seventy gangs of men—the most skilled in the thousands who work for Maxwell. Drawing on the stockroom at their immediate rear, these men install, on this moving frame, part by part, the components of a complete automobile. Always the work is moving, slowly, steadily. At one point the platform meets ah overhead railway which supplies at exactly the correct rate/an automobile body for each - chassis. It takes nearly four hours for the frame to become the complete automobile, which rolls off the platform and into the hands of the tester for final adjustment, under actual running conditions. Under manufacturing conditions in vogue Still in many plants, this assamoly process would have required as many days. Installations of scientific manufacturing like this, and of a similarly intensived order, are the elements that are bringing down down automobile prices, declares Mr. Shafer. At present, he believes, it looks as if the production sharps have brought efficiency and standardization to very near the perfection point. Whether or not future years will witness similar progress is now generally deemed a ‘highly doubtful matter.—Adv.

Two bums occupied warm beds at the jail last night, Merite—That’s the name of our little Paris of jewelry. It’s the best). ROWLES & PARKER. The ladies of the W. R. C. took their dinner baskets and spent the dav with Mrs. Geo. Meyers yesterday, it being a sort of farewell function in her honor. Mr. and Mrs. Meyers intend starting next Monday for Phoenix, Ariz., to spend the winter.

Frozen Radiators We make a specialty of repairing all kinds. We have a supply of second hand Ford radiators and can replace yours while it is being mended, thereby giving you the continued use of your car. The Rensselaer Garage J. W. MARLATT, Prop.