Salt Lake Herald-Republican | 1918-05-26 | Page 57 | Plan of Olympian Company Would Save Ships

PLAN OF OL OLYMPIAN COMPANY WOULD SAVE SHIPS Government Told of Enormous Enormous Enormous Enor Enor- Waste Space in Automobile Cargoes Millions of cubic feet of space ce will he saved In III the tite ships ship carrying supplies to Europe If it sUJ suggestions made to the government gov gov- ov- ov eminent by 11 officials of or the Olympian Motors Mo Mo- tort tors com company pan of Pontiac Mich arc are adopted This saving in space pace it is 18 said i will be Le equivalent to adding many ships I 1 to the troop and munitions transport service According to a plan submitted to the I war department by Fred by-Fred Fred K Parke pre dent of the Olympian company hundreds of or tons of or munitions and various articles necessary to the maintenance and comI comfort com corn I fort of or the soldiers abroad can be packed In space which Is now going to waste Mr lr Parko Parlo pointed out that In packing munitions Lein being manufactured by the Olympian company only 2 Jh cubic feet w wore were rc occupied in a box containing 7 cubic cubic- feet because of the he irregular shape of the article Many Man n ll articles articles' could coul 1 be bo packed in the waste space such as repair parts Jart for airplanes attn mill and motor motol trucks comfort 1 Kits for fol soldiers Red lIeu Cross knitted d goods bandages H and other hospital supplies says sas Mr 11 Parke Parle It way wai 19 suggested to tho the government that there there- la is an enormous amount of waste space in iii shipping such things a as wa wagons ons trucks automobiles tractors and guns uns which could be Le utilized b by packing in lit he between tween with small things Newspapers c cpa papers pa- pa pers socks shirts can candy tobacco magazines magazines mag mag- books and a hundred other othel thin things s could be packed In iii the waste space be between between be- be tween large lare irregular pieces Instead of being boxed or crated and anti shipped sepa sepa- Mr Parke told tolt war department officials of of- In n conference with government of officials I- I dais Mr Ir Parke Parle declared that some ome systematic systematic systematic effort should be made mudo by the government go to put the available shipping pace ace to the most efficient use lw- lw possible while additional ships ar are arc building Recently Re Ite the tho government asked asket bids on the building of ot SOO Dod Dodge e bodies for cars in use in France now Mr Parke Parlee said If the space in these bodies were utilized when being shipped over cubic feet of space pace could be used This would be equivalent alent to two ships of or over o 2000 tons In shipping a ton 0 truck cha ls there arc 30 cubic feet of waste space and in loading a boat with them the total space wasted is enormous As a practical Mr Parke said ald that that ev every y- y manufacturer of goods gOods i for forthe forthe r the government Jo for shipment overseas should be provided with a list of or things he ma may pack In the boxes In n Oakland county count Mich the home of the tho Olympian company compan the local chapter of or TIed Red Cro shipped in the month of or February 91 sweaters 6 helmets 9 93 3 trench cap caps G 6 wristlets 64 6 mufflers muffler 1116 pairs of or socks a total of or articles The They were shipped shipped ship ship- ped In boxes of ot 1 12 cubic feet This space could all nil have been saved aved if Ir the Olympian com company pan could have hwe packed the goods together with articles manufactured for tor forth th American army arm armIn In France