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Show FORD PERFORMS OUTPUT MIRACLES A million axle shafts, each one exactly like the other 999.999 within one thousandth of an inch four million mil-lion pistons fitting four million cylinders cyl-inders with a degree of exactness that all but staggers the imagination many more millions of drilled and threaded holes, all placed with an accuracy of location that is incomprehensible incom-prehensible to any but the mechanically mechan-ically or mathematically minded and all these factors, combined with other millions of parts manufactured manufactur-ed in widely separated units of a gigantic plant, meeting on an assem- j bly line to fashion a million auto- mobiles. This is the miracle that is modern mass production, the hii-racle hii-racle that was conjured up by Henry Hen-ry Ford when he started his first automobile assembly, line. The story of how it is possible to make a million or ten million or twenty million, for that matter of any machine part, each one identical identi-cal with all its fellows, is a story of measurements. Just as that story I of measurements explains the ability I of the Ford Motor Company to pro-I pro-I duce fifteen million Model T auto-1 auto-1 mobiles, it also explains Mr. Ford's ability to produce the Model A in 1 the same plants and by the same methods that made possible the pio-neer pio-neer Ford cars, yet at limits that are from one-fourth to one-half what they were on the Model T. |