Salt Lake Herald-Republican | 1918-02-24 | Page 12 | Big Ford Plant Complete City All in Itself

IG FORD PLANT S COMPLETE CITY I I ALL IN ITSELF t ly me l t ati Mt t Acres AcresS S nannies Occupies S 13 t and SR Employs Men lien leu Eta q Ford for 1 faking of or the fire hn aP when Generally an Jn the tho rotor oror comb company as a lar largo larRe e eI HUt P fer person erson number Just of es a I ant lant a 3 large tools tools-an n he fin fin- and t t of machinery att attempt I de toed to toof rA hed ed car Little of or the ors organ IzaJ Iza- Iza m magnItude raI the operates a seem seem- J lo n that thal t emploY and or of machines o or number very countless counties description and character h very err In a single day dar dayTo To produce pars pors accomplish accomplish- and an undertaking an u the tho average concep- concep beyond eat far be organized and ion res must unit one big U run as Detroit t factory actor near The ground that con- con of or plot ox a There arc SS 32 Jos acres eres tr or of roof 1 b 1111 floor space actually under unde Pei aeJ of oC employed In this men are re tT tr total around their wages lAlit and month This I Io is 1 oo Pe per pcr who number num- num o of t the office Ire lre whose salary salar roll 1011 rollO II abOut and bet ber not O monthly Is about and department t manI man- man an I I iFF r e lIers conjunction the parare par- par part parI part e Working In in t thirty nine branches ando and are t plant I t embly plants occupying In a space of o feet Ceet or 16 1 acres In InI I r l-r HO square SQuar plants alone over men arc are I UC ff r Duri the Jast last fiscal year ear r During Durin 3 i nn cau were ie built and sold Old of or JOO cars output on an Wed Based L. L CI give you ou some figures I the tU tollo ln owing f l of ot the material used II Three hundred and twenty five J e tons f cof oC steel square feet Ceet of top each of oC wheels and Us lamps E a rt d 1 feet teet arler I Y 1 PI of ofa orl rt steel stee l shafting im feet Ceet glass ss for tor square feet reet copper tubS tub- tub Flir S tor for miles wiring wiring- for for tor ma magnetos neto square feet feel I metal for Cor guards an and fenders en ers er's 2 22 I feet tubular radium rods This Thi year ear the production schedule I pima for cars During the thc month tf et September cars w were re built bulIt tans find the following month mont October 79 I m ill cars were manufactured Previous Ious records show for Ma May 1917 1911 and andI I fair US for tor one day July 22 22 1917 j i j f f To distribute this enormous number I er cf of t cars rs Is another complex problem I has been successfully solved b by the Ford Motor company The thirty thirty- nine direct branch houses houles and assem assembly l plants aro are placed at ical points l Throughout thc the country while under the Jurisdiction of or these branches there ire ever OHr For Ford agencies v The different parts of or the car are i at the homo home plant and then theD shipped hipped to the assembly plants where the they are arc assembled into the thc tin fire car car In this way nay the problem of oC transportation is successfully combated I 1 ir relieved relie to a great real ex- ex ext i t t. t It took l freight cars to toI I dle material and nd move the thc Ich on for last year year I Hundred of ot Machines Machine t I To Ta tarnish famish motive mothe power It requires i be driving r energy of or nine composite Heam steam m typo type engines which develop i a i combined horsepower These are arc located In the thc bl big power 1 b which ID la II feet wide b by 00 j fret tut f t la Ia length the distance from rom tho the I round ground to the top of oC the thc smokestacks li h t feet feel et In the construction o of the tho power nr plant OO tons of oC structural fled were required I Each engine weighs hs approximately 1 o Q pounds has hag a stroke of or sev- sev two tuo Inches The Thc steam units H O pounds and the thc gas Jas unit f agether with generator and Cl fly fly- flywheel wheel t I OOOO pounds each The Tho over-all over U of or each engine Is 32 12 feet 1 th and 72 2 feet in len length th The They tub tuh occupy occupy- up a floor noor space of or 2301 square fen The design and detail of oC these originated with Mr 11 Ford and andere ere fere carried out b by Ford engineers unit un- un Wr it r his direct instructions s tf Economy of or Operations Operation J The coal consumption In producing fu fie and steam for or the engines is only tons ton per per hour which speaks ks well voll wellor for or their efficiency In a addition to the theira teats ira cubic feet of or producer il as Jl Is consumed dally Added to this here nere is ii cubic feet of or gas used or various Carious ulous other purposes which bring bring- Ih i bIC e consumption of gas up to 15 feet per da day To O maintain this efficiency the hutt hu- hu tt II element is the most vital factor t The e whole Ford or organization works th h precision as one big r bust 1 family v er E Every man doing oln his nis e duty with a cheerfulness an and r 11 that tha Is decidedly c h noticeable