Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 17 December 1941 — Page 23

ISSION COMPLETED | —AWAITING ORDERS”

We tell you thi story of Allison simply because we think yo ought to know whet is actually taking place in defense production in America tn the busy, talkshy places wheve the work & dome. It mivwors what goes on all over the country behind the scenes. There & in it you will find,

veson for ll freedom loving people to bike heart and courage, for what we can do others con and bkewise ave doing.

had a cotnfield, a pear orchard— and ‘an abundance of “can dp” We had an engine we knew was “tops,” some ideas on how to make it better, and the ambitious ifitention to put it in mass But no one had ever built so marvelously fie an Suge Sheep pect by pies, ape a time, by hand. No otie had ever seen the kind of factory we needed — windowless, ait conditioned, “blacked out” completely —where extremely precise work could go on uninterruptedly night and day.

No one had the supetstandard, super

accurate machine tools called for, and there

of hundred trained men,

were only a couple

where ‘one day we would need Sous, that had to

‘One thing mote we had <a job be done: The Air Corps wanted Allisons. Lots of them. Fast!

To make a two-year story short —the Air Cotps is getting its Allisons. Getting them in the quantities asked. Getting them by the time set. Where the péar orchard stood, 1,000,000

square feet of modern factory space is in

full production, busy night and day.

Whete the cornshocks ranged, 12,000 skilled men expertly operate hundreds of machines mote intricate than most of these men had

ever seen up to a year ago. From a hundred subcontractors scattered over the country come and subassemblies, in a smoothflowing system of supply that had to be set up from scratch.

From our test cells are streaming out Allisons far better than the original pattern —to a goal many times theone first set—engines delivering 235 more horsepower each than was initially specified, achieved without change in engine size and with reduced weight per horsepower!

All of this means we have made good on

our promises — have met our first objective.

Our first mission is completed: Production is rolling at peak capacity on schedule — already thousands of Allison engines are giving a magnificent account of themselves across the world.

We are proud of this, of course, for our selves and especially for American industry of which we are a part.

For you can count on it, America! —what Allison has done and is doing is being repeated in factory after factory in this unmatchable land and will be repeated

manyfold in months to come.

The task ahead of us all in this nation is vast and crucial —but it will be gloriously done.

Big as it is or may be, the job’s in hand— devoted, driving, getit-done effort is taking its measure —all we need now is more of the same!

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