Salt Lake Herald-Republican | 1918-03-03 | Page 41 | U-Boat Menace Lessened by Big Tractor Factory Built in a Jiffy

I U BOAT T MENACE LESSENED BY BIG TRACTOR Fi FACTORY 1 L. L BUILT IN A JIFFY Henry Ford of Peace Ship Fame Fame Wins Ad Admiration 1 of Britain by His Work tl I II I DETROIT March tarch 2 Can 2 C Can n you Imagine the scorn and hoots of or deI de- de riston that would havo greeted you ou I In tho the tall fall of or 1916 If It f you had predicted that the citizens of Great Britain In general and o of England particularly particularly par par- would one day revere the I ame of or Henry Henr Ford i Th The auto magnates magnate's action In launchIng launching launch launch- ing his hi peace ship idea was met with withla la storm of ot protest heard around the world and tho the bare baro mention of ot his name to a citizen of or tho the British emIro emIro em- em Iro Iro was wa equivalent to flaunting a redI red I ng ag in front of ot a maddened bulL Al- Al hough it is but little little- littlemore more than a year ear eart Ince that ill fated expedition sailed Jor for jor Stockholm Henry Ford already ahead has performed a task that should t hIm im to the worn war-worn populace o of AI- AI ion olon Mr lIr Ford Is a lover of or peace He Heade nade ade that point clear time and again He was In favor of ot avoiding war b by V ill 11 ll possible honorable means But tho the thoI I i the United States entered the I I f war the world soon know where Mr 1 ord Ford stood He offered the use of at his I 1 gigantic I factory factor the largest in the world orld to the government and he lie meant what he said They havo have taken en ver a a. great greot part of ot It and submarine submarino ambulances liberty motors ind nid other war essentials aro are being ou out In ln systematic haste In ad- ad to thousands of ot automobiles You can readily understand that Mr Ford must be a very busy bUy man But Dut the great load that ho he has as assumed as- as umed he has hRS taken time to create a jew ew boon to mankind the mankind the farm trac- trac or ii tD i-tD tD TRACTOR i The Tho development of or the Ford FOId trac- trac or reads ads like a chapter in the stories I f Arabian Nights In February 1916 he first tractor of ot the new type was out of at the experimental room lif if t the plant In Dearborn Its fame was spread broadcast and It is said orders In from all aU corners of at the arth But Henry Ford Son the name of at the corporation under which he new tractor is manufactured were not ready to begin shipments The plant was a small one and was to be bet t II In conjunction with the tho Imf Im- Im f to blast furnaces which were to be bo greeted adjoining tho the tractor building for Jor Tor miles adjacent to the River Rouge Houge i l This herculean task was waa only in its In- In It Mancy when there came a cr cry for COl aid rom the Tight Little Isle In April in response to most urgent apI appeals ap ap- ap- ap I heals peals from representatives of ot the Britt Brit Brit- t si rh sh government Mr Ford decided to the immediate construction of at i rs for tor use in En England land The batIe bat- bat le Ie to counteract the U-boats U waR was on onI I md nd It will be no fault tault of Henr Henry Ford FordaC ff f the tractor does not win J f t Preparations were immediately com com- for tor turning out patterns fix fix- jUres ures jigs drawings etc to be used l IJ I In n England in the manufacture of oC these p Representatives of ot the com com- t 1 han frany ny sailed Balled for England about the rt if jf April with the Intention of or startlIng start- start lIng ng ng the production in England o of Ford thoroughly sizing r tp lp the tho situation in England it was J l. l that on account of the dlf- dlf in securing s machinery and ad jaw aw materials and for other reasons t I t would be impractical to produce hese tractors in large quantities In England The party part returned to Dearr Dear- Dear r lorn orn lorn about the middle of July Juh and from hat het time until the present the ti It activity has prevailed at the j plant Swiftly but without publicity the cork ork of ot erecting new buildings and 1 he lie installation of oC new machinery and andI I was begun A contract was Wag wasS S into with the British govern govern- I r nent for tor the tho delivery of oC tractors t. t J or spring plowing 1918 Tho The building I C a large Jarge addition to the machine hop trebling the size alze of the old one 1 vas commenced about tho the middle of at oft 1 t ul uly and by the first of oC August mai ma- ma i hiner was wa j being Installed line shaft shaft- Ing ng g erected and by September 1 I a n nt t arge amount of at machinery was In ac- ac ual operation in this new addition I going going- Into further detail these Ind nd many other buildings were all 1 machinery Installed and In I by tho the fall tall of 1917 I SPECIAL SIDING I A special siding Hiding and a n loading plat plat- orm was constructed along the Michigan Mich Mich- I t igan Central railroad From this plat- plat 1 lorm orm from eight to ten carloads of are being shipped dally daily to the tho 1 ports along the Atlantic i it east for transportation to England rf t On account of ot the great congestion t th the ports of at New r-ew York and Boston t has been necessary to ship to I harleston S. S C. C Mobile and New OrI OrF Or Or- F I ean earn gans There have been shipped to the present IreS resent nt time on the British contract I Approximately completely assembled assem assem- t pied led parts for tor the construction of or t nor nore nore One day this week a solid trainload t I bf f tractors consisting of fifty cars from tram Dear Dearborn orn consigned to tot t l fn n eastern port 11 11 i So far as heard from not one has een teen lost b by accident or U-boat U attack At At th thA present rn rate te of at progress It Is q the tho entire British order of or l tractors will soon be completed 1 Ta To erect a plant equip it with mod- mod rn machinery and produce on such sueh a argo scale within a period of or little little- nore nore than six months is no small feat teat you consider the many great handicaps consisting of tardy deliver deliver- cs es of ot equipment and material traffic Blockades and embargoes fuel admin- admin f. f holidays and the tho unheard o ot of reather conditions I The great groat majority of the British people are aro not aware how much they I owe to Mr Ford but it will wIH be admitted admitted admitted admit admit- ted in time that a year eai or two works great chancres es