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Show HITS 1( ii, Frank Botterill Says J, chine Shops of Countrj Are Working Overtime, ' i ORDERS FROM ABRty Not for Automobile but for Military Supply He Declares. Not oue out of a thousand men have the slightest concepti conditions existing today in miw turing establishments as tie dirsi suit of European war orders b i news brought back to Salt Ijj Frank Botterill, manager of the I Botterill Automobile company o( j city, who returned Friday after u to Detroit and other eastern pout Mr. Botterill went eaBt to faj why he couldn 't get all the antna he needs in his business, and j. he discovered the reason very automobile manufacturers pljnu build an unusually large nunu cars up to September and havens out these plans to the letter. TlJ, ufacturers thought they had mJ! estimated the demand for cars tkrj out the country and made their 3 accordingly. W thev find thenS with tbeir full quota bf carstraj,. sold and the public clamoring for i sands of additional autoraobilet, tj the manufacturers are up araim stone wall of an unprecedented da of raw materials. Filling War Orders. Every manufacturing estaoli equipped with metal-working aid ' ery is using all, or a large porta ' such equipment to fulfill ordtri material to be used by the Tarriii rope.an nations, is Jfr. Botteril'iri Sewing machine factories ui i i ing war supplies: bicycle factories! " shut down on their own prodnctsi are turning out turn-buckles and i ; stayB for war aeroplanes; mid " shops, big and little, are manufaets devices of every conceivable den tiou for useby firms having brni material contracts to fulfill. and''n -time" is the general rule thrc.,i the majority of these factorial Finds Much to Learn. Mr. Botterill said yesterday: I had read a good deal izi ' eastern manufacturing plants babv busy filling war orders befon made bit fast trip to Detroit, hadn 't the slightest idea, hontnj of the extent to which this irtb ity reaches until T had an opje J tu'nity to investigate conditimi the automobile manuf actnritg kt ; ness and find out for mveelf : we shall not be able to get eura t pected allotment of one of li : makes of automobiles we ; Hudson. It is simplv lack of raF Ett rial in general, and the absolute! ability of eastern automobili M -ufacturers to secure snfficieBt terial to build more cars this tie, J had planned. T found a remarkable ritual -Here was'a prominent bicycle i t ufacturing plant with which Ihn , been well acquainted for rears 2 ing the greater portion or its w . chinerv to manufacture nil buckles and wire stavs for an : plane factorv at Niagara ra j that is building eight war in ; planes a day. Shops Under Contract. 1 know of sewing machine a 5 tories that are using their a -working machinery to turn out , supplies, and in Detroit and inco) large eastern centers every Pig ' little machine shop is under a -tract to furnish metal work oie -erv description and character, j various stages of completion ' larger manufacturers, who are a ing war orders. . . .lust to illustrate the diffirtf sutomobile manufacturers an W riencing in securing material dition to that which thevaan tracted for previously, let the case of the Hudson comPJjf' Detroit. The factorv called spring twits for Hudson care, dition to the supply tracted for. and the Hudson" einls finally found it necessary start six "special represent! from its factory simultaneous nicht to six different po:ts"! country iu a desperate eftort cure these 400 spring bets. " after taking these extreme m uvrs. it was two weess bai company could secure toe " |