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Show URGE 1ITIS " FOR MITCHELL PLANT Capacity of Big Racine Factory Fac-tory Will Be Doubled for Coming Year. The capacity of Mitchell Motors company's com-pany's (nc) plant Ht Racine is boins doubled for the coming year. Large additions are being made to the- machine ma-chine shops. And a five-story body plant, is now ready for occupancy. All the Mitchell bodies, open and inclosed, will hereafter be built in the- Mitchell factory. iS'o other plant in the country builds a larger percentage of a complete automobile. au-tomobile. And no other car in this class is built complete, bodies and all, by one maker. The Mitchell fiscal year which has just closed sets a new record in Mitchell tsalcs. But the ever-growing demand hag forced preparation for this doubled output. out-put. Tho Mitchell concern is now eightv-two eightv-two years old. The coming year will be the fifteenth year of the' Mitchell car. Few concerns in the United States have a longer record. Tho whole Mitchell plant is in charge of John V. Bate, tho famous efficiency expert. The entire factory was built and equipped under his direction. It ia claimed that this plant is tho model automobile factory in America. And that nowhere else can a car of this class be built at so low a cost. Extensions on the big machine shops now are well under way and within tho next thirty days the addition of many thousands 'of feet of added floor space will be ready for occupancy. At the main works, plant .No. 1 will be increased enormously by th addition addi-tion of another macliine shop of tho same concrete sawtooth roof const ruction ruc-tion as the balance of tho factory buildings. Another large building is under way adjoining on the west of the present factory and situated on tho C, M. & St. Paul tracks. These buildings, with the now five-story five-story body plant now ready for operation, opera-tion, will provide for the increase in the production the Mitchell company now has under way for the coming season. The production plans, "calling for -5,-000 cars, ore now well under wav and, with these additions, the Mitchell company com-pany will continue its policy of ''malting ''malt-ing the Mitchell complete" in its own shops at Racine. No imuinfadturer in the industry makes more of a complete automobile than the Mitchell, and, with its increasing increas-ing facilities, the ever-increasing demand de-mand and the prestige its product commands com-mands among automobile owners, the continued growth of this remarkable organization or-ganization is already assured.. |