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Show IMMENSE FACTORY I EORSfllPSOITRUCKSj Large Force of Workmen Hur- JK rying to Complete Big New w Plant hy Sept. 15. m Following tho announcement by the United Statea Motor company that a 'Hj Dotroit plant would bo built for the malting of Samppcu trucks, instant ac- B tion was taken. yji ?.u immense build- IE ing, 1050 by 150" feelk is in process of 'K. construction ruiar L? plant of tho BruBh IB! Bunabout company. ,SR A large forco of men aro now work- 'jB ing on this main building. Tho founda- IB tions aro laid and tho footings are jn. . JK "When the first -100 feet have been coiffi, ,H pleted, which will bo about August 1U,7 '1fH General Managor Morris Grabowsky, of i& tho Alden Sampson Manufacturing com- :'B pany, will move into that part of tho $H building. Tho entire building will be" JiS completed by Septembor 15. -iH This building has fiftoen pits for tho flB convenience of the testors. The machine Vm shop equipment is now being Installed. JK Tho plant is absolutely firo-proof and 'H hns a cement floor. For the building 'H of bodies and tho assembly of cars tern-, porary tents havo boon erected. , JH The contract for the administration! 3f building was let during tho past week. This structure will bo a duplicate ofj tlio ofTien hinMinfr nf ihn T?rn:fi T?tTi-l xXM about company. It will bo 55x75 feet 3fH and two stories in height, tho material Sljl being white pressed brick. Theso build- -ifH ings, together with a drop forge, foun- MM dry and miscellaneous shops, will make I H it possiblo for tho Alden Sampson Man-! lH ufacturing company to produce all of MSI its 1000 pound and ono and two-ton, jH trucks in Dotroit, while the heavy duty! -H throe, four and five-ton trucks will ba H made at the Pittsficld plant. B Moro than $125,000 has been ox-. H pendod for new machinery and equip'j ttK mcnt for tho Pittsficld establishment, 'ma while the expansion of tho plant in- yfmtl eludes a now building, 170x70 feet, an jflg additional story upon tho present main IMS building, 170xS5 feet; now forge, black- JM! smith, paint shop and testing room. 'Bf |