Show OAKLAND F FACTORY AmORY IS OPERATED WITH CAR MOTORS Unique Plan Succeeds s in Meeting Crisis Due to Lack of Fuel While the railroad d strike and the attendant difficulties o 0 transportation n were threatening to paralyze many of the automobile and motor equipment plants of Michigan t ti the the Oakland O kand factory factory factory fac fac- fac- fac tory at Pontiac solved several problems problems problems' lems lems' with tru Yankee ingenuity says Fred Sharman manager of the Sharman Automobile Au company distributor die dis trib ton tor of ot the Cadillac Cadilla and Oakland cars The scarcity of of- coal with the De De' troit and Cleveland railroad yards tied up caused a a. serious shortage o of I power All AU plants practiced conservation conserva conserva- tion Operating hours were were redu reduced ed i through ugh necessity in most cases At Atthe Atthe th the Oakland plant the management exercised gr greatest care In the conserVation conservation conservation conser conser- of fuel but went most ma manu manufacturers one better Most of at the big pieces of f production production tion machinery being motor direct-motor driven power economy was saved by installing Sensible Six propulsion to the lighter machines Oakland chassis chassis chassis chas chas- sis with engines Installed but without the body were set set- side by side In batteries of si siX four and two Stout hors horses were placed under the frame lifting the rear wheels several severa inches from the floor Belts Belts' were run from the rear wheels on on on the regular tires to overhead shafting from which them the m machinery chinery was driven These Thes cars were wera given a tank of ot gasoline and a supply supply- of oil oU each morning Then for fur nine hours without without with- with out attention the motors ran at arate a arate arate rate that would have given them a speed peed of 37 z nines miles iles An hour Inasmuch as as' the transmission r rear ar ax axle and drive ve shaft were given their share of t the thc work the result were were ex exceptionally exceptionally exception exception- Eption ally any gratifying to to the fhe Oakland nd officials The workmen were ev even n more enthusiastic J JIt It was was' a unique sight with finished Oakland motors of the Sensible Six overhead valve type furnishing power t to create similar engines The body plant esp especially clany found the use of oft t the e ears cars practicable and useful The Oakland factory i lg sparing nothing ot to maintain the production schedule it has outlined for this year writes writes' W W. H. H Matsen assistant general general general gen gen- eral manager There seems to be food rood for thought la th the fact that during dur dur- ing a epp of steam transportation th the car that tha thousands of f owners 1 know now to- to tobe be the most economical merris of o modern tr transportation Is Isable able to do its share i I The Oakland O dand f factory ct ry will continue to use se its own motors motors' for power until the rail rail situation cI clears rs' rs conditions in n t Michigan I |