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Show EXCLUSIVE 11 II AT PACKARD PLAIT Factory Is Now Devoted to Manufacture of Airplane Air-plane Motors. For the first time in fifteen years the unbroken procession of passenger ears in various stages of production at the Packard factory in Detroit has come to a dead stop.' Uncle Sam, the industrial indus-trial traffic cop, will not call a halt on passenger car production and give the "Go Ahead" signal to exclusive L'nited States-to-Brrlin traffic until January 1, but the Packard company, consistent with its 100 per cent war work pledge, has already discontinued building passengers pas-sengers cars. And this in the face ot an active demand for a dependable car in these days of high-sneed efficiency. The predominating colors of Packard blue and lustrous black have given wny to olive drab and camouflage in the Packard shops. In place of the long lines of chassis growing p:trt bv part into completed cars, are seemingly endless end-less trains of airplane motors." The stockrooms, former storehouses of automobile auto-mobile parts, are now crowded with airplane motor assemblies and other units used in implements of war. The ennmeling ovens, in which fenders and other parts were given their last process before going on a car, are now filled with tier upon tier of airplane engine cylinders. There are thousands upon thousands of them. More than a thousand khaki-clad women, specially trained in the Pack- tm, n IL.' Kjqp mmm j hii. l a. ard technical school, are now a substantial substan-tial part of an army of skilled workers who operate machine? to produce equipment equip-ment for the boys at the front. Women are employed on every branch of war woik, from assembling airplane motors to sewing the linen on airplane wings. In the truck plant the ruling bha de-is de-is also the olive-drab of the tinny, vith an occasional brighter bit of color on a truck for one of th- industries listed as essential by the war industries board. |