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Show CHEVROLET TO OPEN I KANSAS CITY PLANT ' DETROIT, June 5. Marking the latest step in a movement to keep pace with the growing demand for its product, the Chevrolet Motor Com- pany announced here today that construction con-struction will start shortly on a mammoth Chevrolet assembly plant ' in Kansas City. This follows closely on the opening of a similar plant in " Atlanta to serve the Southeast.' ' When completed in October, the 1 Kansas City plant will be the largest' 1 automobile factory in the Southwest r and will represent an investment of " more than $2,250,000. Lke the At-1 At-1 lanta plant, the Kansas City factory will have a capacity of 350 cars a r .day, providing Chevrolet with facili-1 facili-1 ties for the production of more than 1 1,250,000 cars annually. The new : factory will serve Western Missouri, Kansas, North and South Dakota, Wyoming and Colorado. W. S. Knudsen, president of the Chevrolet Motor company, declared today that the opening of a plant in. Kansas City has been mado necessarv to relieve the St. Louis and Janesville ' factories, where the demand has been ' taxing production facilities and making mak-ing it necessary for both plants to work overtime for the last three months. It is a further step in' the company's program to insure a regular regu-lar flow of cars in line with the exceptional ex-ceptional public demand, he said. Twenty right acres in the Leeds district have been taken over for the various building which will include S the main Chevrolet-Fisher assembly unit, an office bmldin:', parts and .-ervice building, driveway shed, load- !ing dock and power house. With the exception of the office building the units will be of one story, monitor type roof construction, allowing for the maximum amount of light for worlcmcn. Nearly one half of the huge Chevrolet-Fisher assembly unit will be occupied by the Fished Body Corporation for the building of bodies for all Chevrolet closed cars. m This close association of th world's largest and foremost automobile body builder will enable Chevrolet to provide the same type of service available avail-able in other Chevrolet assembly plants throughout the country. Buildings Build-ings will have a total of 410,000 square feet of floor space. |