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Show CADILLAC MAKERS OLD- EMPLOYEES A recent checking up of Its shop organization or-ganization by the Cadillac Motor Car company has revealed some facts which are of especial interest at this time. Some of the results of this investigation investiga-tion are contained in a communication just received by Sam Sharman of the Sharman Automobile company, distributors distrib-utors of Cadillac and Oakland cars. Perhaps the most impressive feature developed is that, in a very large measure, mea-sure, the men who do the fine machine work on the Cadillac car have been in the employ of the company and associated asso-ciated with each other for years. In the Cadillac factory are fifty-two superintendents, department managers and foremen, who have been continuously continu-ously employed by the company for more than ten yaars, many of them even fifteen years or longer. There are 143 others whose service is between five and ten years. Practically all of these men, of course, arc above the age limit for, military service, at least so far as the draft is concerned. This list of 195 men contains the name of one who has been in the Cadillac Cadil-lac service for twenty years, one with an eighteen-year record, and the average aver-age term of employment for all of them, including the five-year men, is well over seven ye,ars. In commenting on these facts, the company observes that ' ' it would be possible to duplicate the mechanical equipment of Cadillac shops, but the 'know-how' factor the man element is beyond duplication. "The man who has been engaged for five, ten or fifteen years in the. specialized spe-cialized business of making tools or patterns, cutting gears, machining connecting con-necting rods or any of the multitudinous multitudin-ous other functions required in the production pro-duction of the car, has reached the point where the required processes, although al-though highly specialized in themselves, have become second nature with him, and his interest is absorbed in the development de-velopment of minute refinements." Mr. Sharman said that business had been exceptionally brisk during the past ten days and the supply of Cadillacs available is diminishing rapidly. Prompt deliveries can be made, however, especially espe-cially on the seven-passenger touring car. |