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Show BUILD BIGGEST I PLANT ON EARTH Fort Wayne, Indiana, Chosen by Great Motor Corporation For New Factory. It Is our privilege to announce today to-day that the International Motor Truck, which has increased its sales' volume fifteen hundred per cent since I 1914, is to be put us soon as possible! into greatly extended production. Harvester Company officinls have just secured a Bite for the erection of the largest motor truck plnnt in the world to provide their truck with manufacturing facilities more in keeping with Americnn nnd World demand. de-mand. Cyrus McCormick, Jr., Works Manager, Man-ager, who will have charge of the construction, equipment and operation opera-tion of this newdovelopment, says: "The site of the new plant, which will be in nddltlon to the Akron Works, is situated nt Fort Wnyne, Indiana, about throe and one huff hours ride from Chicago and on tho N. Y. C. & St. L., Wabash, Pennsylvania, Pennsyl-vania, New York Central, and Ohio Electric Railroads. The facilities for International Motor Truck manufac-ture manufac-ture and distribution were investigated investigat-ed of twenty-eight industrial centers in tho United States, beforo tho Fort Wayne site was selected In order to find the very best base for InternaW tlonnl Mptor Truck extension. In a word, Fort Wayne was selected for its strategic situation with respect to tho delivery of raw materials from the company's mining and lumber and ' steel producing properties and from nvnilable sourcos of purchase and with respect to the quick nnd facile distribution of the finished product. "Fort Wayne's position Is favorablo geographically and Its railroad and their connections are the most completely com-pletely supplied with special equipment equip-ment thnt is needed for delivering International In-ternational Motor Trucks to tho Company's Com-pany's dealers and distributors the country over nnd to the 107 Inter national Harvester branch houses In the United States and Canada. "Best of all the spirit of Ft. Wayne 'and the co-operation of her people and organizations are most favorable to the development of tho largest and most productive Motor Truck plant In the world. A truly great factory must consist not only of adequato buildings nnd equipment, employes, nnd payroll, but must furnish a proper prop-er environment of homes, institutions nnd people. |