Show SCHOOL IS SOLVING AUTO INDUSTRY r PROBLEMS G C. C G A. A Sims Re Relates ate Means Means' Means Means' I Adopted by Packard Motor Car Co o. o v v i i OW to toso so Ve the problem of Jho hG hc ever increasing cost st of oJ pro uc on reduce uco waste aste and aid an secure a cos close cIot coordination of functions functions' between between- the Various depart depart- I I m ments are vital problems s with au automo- automo tomo- tomo bUe manufacturers manufacturers' at t the present day said d 3 A AJ Sims lo local l Packard dealer I Much Iu h progress has recently been been made mad in bringing about their theil solution at at atthe the plant of the Packard Motorcar company The medium through which h th the campaign was conducted to secure these ends is known as the Pa Packard kard Advanced TrainIng Training Training Train Train- ing school which has just closed i its s first eighteen months of I successful achieve achieve- ment Since April 1948 over 7 q Packard Packard Pack Pack- J feEK eliJ 1 gl i i ard executives xe have been given a a s special course goure in industrial i management ment at th the tho 1 1 i advanced training h 5 The institution of bf the tho Packard Advanced Ad Ad- I v n ej Training STraining school is Is' Is a most note note- I worthy innovation in modern r industry t Our plan r n Is original 1 with lt us Before Be outlining outlining out out- r i lining our ow own plans I made a thorough investigation of many industrial l educational educational Systems in other establishments I and was unable to find any plan In In- opera opera- that tion-that could could could-be be depended upon to meet our present day ay needs for b better indus Indus- f trial i g SCHOOL DIVIDED Therefore we enrolled In the in-the the the school all of our job setters production f foremen fore fOe remen re- re men men assistant foremen foremen and assistant assistant assistant as superintendents The Tho school was wag divided into assemblies of or approximately thirty members each Many of the office men and graduate engineers engineers- from the university were were also enrolled and thus I brought into closer contact with the men menI from the shop They all aU met in the I school on a common footing and studied In the spirit of hearty cooperation the i various arlous possible solutions as outlined d by byth bythe th the lecturers to io problems problems' of shop shop- man mn which had long confronted them Factory executives and prominent distributors of the Packard company company Ini in ina ina i a new model pneumatic tired Packard truck established recently what is re regarded regarded regarded re- re as h a anew 3 new actual road motor truck speed record They They- made the run be between between between be- be tween Ba Bay City a and d Detroit a distance nce of 1206 niles In fn 5 b hours and 5 62 63 minutes min mm- ut utes s an average average of of miles an hour houn OFFICIALS O ort TRIP The party of officials on an experimental experimental experimental mental trip hip to acquaint themselves with actual freight transportation problems left Bay City at a a. m. m on the r return turn trip They arrived in Flint a distance of fifty five miles at 1054 And add finished at the Statler Detroit at Three stops were made mad during the trip trip trip- one for five minutes minutes' to to allow a passenger to recover his hat another for gasoline requiring nine minutes s and anti another for for- three minutes on account of traffic delay de de- de lay Practically one one half of the the- distance stanc iwas w was s traveled over aver roads wet by recent I rains lains The truck was loaded practically I to Its capacity of three tons for the en enI entire entire en- en I tire trip carrying eighteen passengers passenger I II I with their baggage and two pound 1000 I weights The truck which wa was especially de signed and constructed to meet the growIng growing grow grow- ing fag demand for tor pneumatic tired freight carriers was was' equipped with Goodyear Goodyear Goodyear Good Good- year cord tires Ures in in- iron front and rear The body was a foot inch 36 stake type S |