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Show HEAVY DEMAND FDR ilN SIX PACKARD Special Train Chartered to Rush New Machinery Through to Factory. Facing an ever-increasing demand for Its twin six motor cars, the Packard Motor Mo-tor Car company has been driven to heroic efforts to maintain the necessary production schedule In Its factory. Ab a result of the pressure for cars, F. F. Beall, the vice president of manufacturing, has been Kettfng shipments of bar steel by express and bartering special trains for hauling bi machine tools. Not long ago the company paid a record rec-ord express charge for a upecial transmission trans-mission boring machine weighing nearly a ton. which was purchased In Worcester, Mass., and rushed to Detroit. A fcw days later, when the railroads could not guarantee a hurry-up delivery on a special spe-cial milling machine from ttie frame city, Beall chartered a locomotive and brought the freight car through as a special train. This extraordinary method of shipping machinery was Invoked a seepnd time to transport a special double-end drilling machine manufactured in Springfield, Mass. , , Packard officials say the high cost of thfse special shipments is soon offset by the saving effected through the Improved me thoda of manufacturing. |