| Show 20 FORD CARS BUILT AND SOlD IN NINE MONTHS DETROIT Mich July 25 Three 25 years Sears ago JO if you had told anyone that tha thata a 3 siD lo automobile company woul would bui build more than titan a year that t person would ba have havo o though thought that probably you were harmless harmless bu but ought not to be ed to run at largo large n aB you might ht suddenly become violent But in nine months tho the Ford Motor Moio company has dono done better bettor thaw than reach tho the mark It Las has built and sold 1 cars from Oot October Jor 1 1 1913 up t to July 1 1914 1014 In other words an a average orage e of better botte than 22 00 Fords have havo been built and ond am sold soM very month for tho first nine nin months of tho company's fiscal year Last years rears production of Fords was about C cars This mark wa was passed by this years year's production in th the tho mid middle lo of May It is almost impossible to con conceive eive o of automobiles Only by com may ono one really grasp asp what this figure means If all tho the Fords bu built Jt and sold Bold so 60 far this year were placed in lino a half milo mile apart they would reach roach arouni around the tho world four times If the tho entire populations of the cities of Detroit and Baltimore wanted to hold bold a n joint picnic tho Fords built this year could easily casity tako take all tho the people to tho picnic grounds rounds in one ono trip 0 Or this years year's For Fords s could carry three armies tho the size of tho the American army engaged in the Spanish-American Spanish war Of they could carry at ono trip nearly half balf of nil all tho the men that fought in tho the thoc c civil iI war Or Jett getting n at it from another nn angle lo the total horsepower of the motors ii in these Fords fj figuring 20 horsepower 20 toa to toa toa a motor is more than thau two thirds o of tho horsepower of all Sin the developed water waterpower in the tho United States It is sixty times greater reater than the tho power plants of tho the Imperator tho the Lus Lusitania or the tho and ana twenty times greater than the power developed b bj by tho to dam on the Mississippi IlS at Keokuk Ill m. m I It is said that the tendency nowadays is to take the burden off the man roan anc and put it on the tho machine A man roust must bo e a pretty good athlete to be bo capable of exerting 1 5 if you can translate horsepower horsepower cr into man power But fj figuring on this basis tho total horsepower of tho the cars cara built and sold b. b by y the Ford Motor l com company pan this year is s six x times greater creater than tho the comb combined power of all an tho the men engaged cd in the civil war |
