Hammond Times, Volume 5, Number 48, Hammond, Lake County, 9 December 1916 — Page 8

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Having just purchased from the Northern Indiana Gas and Electric Co. of Hammond, their entire stock of Electrical Wiring: Merchandise, together with their good will, to the effect that the latter Co. or its local officials will in no way engage In the wiring business in this city. In lieu of this purchase and understanding we will continue to sell Electrical Wiring Merchandise and Fix-

lures at the old price until January isi, Many dollars can be saved Dy those buying before the advance in

price. Don't tali to visit our tseautitui fixture Koom.

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Me Specialize in Electric Sign ana ffoose Wiring.

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Great advances have been made in electricity. In no department of this science has there been greater progress made, than the illuminating flQld for advertising purposes." Who has not seen the great white way. of the modern city by night? A a medium of drawing trade, an attractive electric sign is just as necessary to a successful store as the columns of the daily paper. Today a merchant is known by the sign over his door at night. Get our figures.

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Electric Fixtures We are wholesalers and retailers of electrical fixtures, and of course, carry in stock a large variety suitable for the finest home in Hammond or the smallest cottage. When we say we carry the largest stock r in northern Indiana." this of itself

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Present your wife with a . Western Electric Washing Ma-

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this machine. Easy to operate. Simply turn on the power and the machine does the rest. Call today and get prices.

Great Drive on Electric Irons

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' Every housewife's heart beats faster when she knows that she is to he the recipient of one of the?e modern labor-saving and money- . saving housekeeping necessities. The initial expense is trivial the cost of maintaince is so small you will wonder bow in the world you were able to keep house without it. Call now today!. See our large selection, specially priced for the holidays. Regular value $3. CO, special price $rOO Complete. Percolators, Toasters, Bulbs and cord for Xmas Tree specially reduced.

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GREIT PLANT DESCRIBED

BY E. i; BUNNELL

K N. Bunnell. Willys-Overland dealer in this locality, who Is one of the 4 000 dealers vUiting the great Toledo piant in connection with the immense Lwention now In proves, recounts iu experience in an entertaining letter: Some action: ; Nothing: waa'ever no impressive as iur tour of the great plant that turns nt Willys-Overland cars. ? our Pullman all parked in the com"pny yards. There was room enough, for thre are seven and three-quarter

es of track wituin me piani.

m.n o-.-vt a card containing a

.caure of Mr. Willys and an autonaphed message of welcome from J v.ii thine: 1 knew we were

fined up on the steps of the stunning; new administration building , getting photographed.

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restaurant on the sixtn noor. we had a corking breakfast.

ach plate was a copy of the live

Willys-Overland house organ: s Starter.' It mapped our day's j

"ogrsm. ; Then rtarted our tour of the plant.' O'tr guides were c-refully picked I

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men. They kntv the plant from end to end. and th parties' were, final! so that each member of the party could have his questions answered. Nobody ought to try to sell WillysOverland product without knowing till plant. You can't grip the Immensity of the proposition till you do. It is no piker business. $25,000,000 are tied up in land, buildings and machinery, not to ia a worJ about the stock of parts and raw material. From the roof of the wonderful administration building, which stands out like a state capital. you get a great panorama of the plant. You can then readilly believe that It occupies 103 acres, with 4.tS6.6S0 square foot of floor space in daily use and a production capacity of 1.000 cars per ulay.' You can appreciate the growth from 230 employes in 1908 to 17,300 in 1916. 1,000 persona, more than tne entire manufacturing , force of many a company, work in the administration building alone. This structure, ?T3"feet long, has tvery facility f or raptJ wm k, including dictaphones, its own lUgraph and telephone system and a mail handling department that does about

cverythnig but write the letters. SSS persons can be fed in the res

taurant at one time. lint this is nothing to what hits when you cross into the shops. It is a whirl of action, yet all is system. Parts by the untold thousands are here, w till a value into the millions of dollars. There are lines of motors. I never saw so inapy crank shafts together, our guide said G.ooO I'd have believed ,'.' H. .Every thirty, days sees an average of l.iMni ions of steel come in. It is handled by a magnetic crane that enables two men to do a work that formerly required thirty. There are amazing machines. The tosjgle press, for example, held us all. This monster, with its pressure of l.Owo tons, shapes cold steel like

piece of metal fed a side frame. It these in an eigKt

other. It was hai the automat faces and fin as though metal vitals

d to til-Bg us away fi-om turret lathe that suiishes fly whels. It works sxmewheie within :ts a brainwfts- concealed.

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hard board, comes out make 2.000

day. You take off your hat to the frfrging machines. Down comes

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drop forging of the front axle 'can. be accomplished wtih one heat. Every kind of part requiring strength was di-op forged while we looked on, axles, crank shafts, brake assembly rods, brake and control ro-is. spring shackles, gear blanks and brake rod sectors. , We saw the -Company's accurate system of die making, ft calls for a special workman on each detail. One works on the shape r, another on the planer and a .third on 0'p sinking:. The multinie spindle drill ' in one operation drills all the holes in the front axle." This is a guarantee thai each w Ml be in. right relation t the

The workman has only to put on the rough fly wheel, adjust the first set ot tools, push ihe lever, and let the machine do the rcst. The cast iron is feeled off as rapidly as wax. Sometimes four or five operations are performed at once. When one set of cuttings is done, tlie machine stops automatically, and the next set of tools comes automatically into place. Twenty operations are performed in fourteen minutes. L'8 pounds of metal are removed from .the tly a heel. t One man can watch three of these machines. The vertical cutter of gears on flywheels almost matches the turret lathe in interest. Gloving up and down, the cutter at the same time slowly revolves, the flywheel turning in the 'opposite direction. By the time a complete revolution of the fly wheel has been accomplished, all the gears are cut. We all fell from the aluminum foundry and for the machines that finish the aluminum parts. Tiie multiple spindle drill bore SI holes in the crank case in one operation. This is a proof of the superiority of maching processes, for the holes must, be in the right relation to each other. .Another machine smooths the s'trfaees of the crcn); casc.-v finishing' seven in nine minutes. Diamonds, real diamonds, are consumed with apparently reckless in-

diflciem'e In the wet grind room. Placed in small tools they are used to ti-ue the emery wheels on which are ground the bearing surfaces of the, crank shafts.. They ai bought in 15.()0tf lots. We looked on w1hile forests of lumber .were being turned into bodies in the wood work department. Ths lumber comes in by carloads. As 214 feet of wood is required on a small touring car, we could readily see why so much was required. You make this round and you can understand this company's immens consumption of material 18,000.000 pounds of solder annually, 2,500,000 pounds of tin and lead for smoldering, 10.000,000 pounds of brass and copper, 12.000.000 fett of steel tubing' and 125,000 tons of steel. But what impressed me more than a!! was the department in which materials are. tested. They have to know a thing is right before it goes into a Willys-Overland car. That's how they safeguard the public. Tests in the physical and chemical laboratories are made in two way. Completed steel, parts are subjected to terrific tests. Axles are twisted like rolls of taffy candy. Small bits of steel, six inches ! long, cut from completed axles are attached' at both ends, and literally pulled apart. The registering machine shows 200,000 pounds to the, square Inch necessary to accomplish this, whereas a resistance ujr to 125.000 pounds would be proof o ample tensible strength. Springs ore tried for thii- resistance. - - Steel articles re aiso put through both heat and chemical tests. The former determines the amount of cafI

bon, an important factor; the other determines the chemical composition of the steel. Naturally every operation in all tha plants tends finally toward the assembly conveyor tracks. There are four of them, each 645 feet long. We followed the whole operation. We began at one enti where the frames and rear systems are put in place. By the time the other end oi the conveyor is reached the frame ha-o grown into the finished car. From overhead parts are lowered by chains. Along the way men are attaching the parts. The frame is not in motion all the time, but can be instantly connected with the links of an endless chain and sent' on its way whenever desired. Top quality of workmanship is nssurrd by having each man do work on wl-ich he an expert, if it be only to tighten a boil. Lines of motors, already tested, wait n both sides of the conveyor. These are pu. into place, cantilever springs) re put on. steering mechanism and lighting and starting systems are idjusted. Gradually the car takes form. Instead of painting the chassis with a brush, a sprayer is used. It does the work more rapidly, more uniformly and at a lower cost. The track of the assembly lead directly through ovens in which the paint is baked. Fenders and running boards come into their places. Wheels with the tires on are brought along on a runway. l'irt comes a front wheel, then a rear wheel. You ought to see them put on the tires. It is lightning. By a special device, invented by one of the

men in the department, the tire can be put on a wheel in three seconds. From overhead bodies are dropped down on to the chassis and soon made fast. The car is now ready for its tests. Rapidly .revolving wheels in the floor engage the wheels of the car. and sen 1 them at high speed to make sure tha they are operating freely. This is not a test under the power of the car. Gasoline and water are then put into the car. It is pushed off the tra'.'k into, another room, till its wheels ! in contact wjth wlleels in the floor. When the use of the self-starter, the machine gets its first chance to prove the success of its construction. It surprised me the way the motors started. They were off with' a rush. There was no hitch or delay. All th work had been done right. In a few minutes the motor was apparently almost as smoothly as if it had been; it year on the road. We saw hdw the cars were shipped. The export department has the big feature in this line. The finished car undergoes preparation by having i wheels taken off and fastened on the under side of the fram which forms the top covering for the car. The top is covered with tar paper as a protection against the elements, and all ia securely boxed. Along comes a big crane running in an overhead groove a quarter of a mile long. Th operator sits in a small cab not unlike tiiat of a. rail-

: road engineer. Chcins grab the boi containing the car, and within forty -

Cve seconds have carried it outside t.e building and place it on the f!s,t

J freight car.

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