Show Ford News vs Detroit Mich May With 17 17 With pro pro- pro production of the Ford Motor Company in in full fuU swin swing the big Rouge Plant at Dearborn the thc largest manufacturing establishment in the world has be- be become be become come como the scene of the greatest activity activity activity vity in in its history Reports covering a months month's opera opera- operations show the receipt of car car- car loads carloads of material and the shipment I of carloads of products from the plant Increasing shipments consist large ly largely of coal iron ore the latter being theFord unloaded from lake vessels at the theFord theFord Ford docks on the Rouge River lime lime- limestone limestone limestone stone and sand with th numerous con con- consignments consignments consignments of materials used in in small smaller smaller smaller er quantities while the Rouge Plant sends out for sale not only automo automo- automobiles automobiles automobiles biles and automobile parts but also coke cement scrap and various oth-I oth oth- oth other oth other er products by-products saved through manu manu- manufacturing manufacturing efficiency Within the Rouge factory enclosure enclosure enclosure ure are 92 miles of railway on which an average of 2000 cars are handled hichI I daily including those used for in- in factory tra factory tra-factory movements Approximately freight cars carry pro pro- products products pro ducts from this factory each day The bulk of these there shipments is oem com com pos posed Xi of automobile parts consigned to 32 other assembly plants in the United States and to foreign plants 1 Model A Ford automobiles assembled fit at the nou Rouge e Plant are delivered to toI I dealers under their own power as the plant assembles automobiles only for the Detroit area I For the Rouge and Highland Parka Park I plants combined carloads of I ma material rial were wore received in the month and carloads of products went I out from these factories The volume of spring orders orders and ind the addition of new body types to the theline theline line of Model A Ford cars has hns caused a general stimulation to production throughout the organization and the output of passenger cars and commer commercial cial vehicles is now averaging l ela ing ap- ap approximately ap approximately plo proximately a day There has been a consistent forward movement in both production and sales ever since the Model A car was den |