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Show CLAY MODELER IN AN AUTOJACTORY "Common cla" Is an expression often of-ten heard in referring to the human i ace, and Feldom, If ever, connected by tho layman with an automobile plant. But some of the most expert sculptors are to bo found In the engineering en-gineering and designing departments of the big motor car plants Theirs Is Just as Important a duty as is that of tho most famous of statue and monument designers, for In the finished fin-ished automobile fully as many critical criti-cal people view thoir handiwork as seo the memorials in our public places. The Garford company of Elyrla, 0 furnishes an llluntratlon of tho Importance Im-portance of tho modeler In clay In the motor car industry Every modol of automobllo turned out bv this pom. pany for the -approval of the buying public Is first perfected in clay before a machine starts working on the mut-ala mut-ala and wood of which tho completed car Is composed A touring car or big limousine In exact scalo and true to the slightest detail Is built of clay In the designing room, away from the prying eyes of the public and the possible pos-sible competitor "Every part of tho proposed new model is buU of clay, to pats In re view lieforo tho designers and engineers engi-neers for criticisms and suggestions Body, engine hood, oven mudguards and spnro tires arc molded into form uritil the completed model stands, perfect per-fect In line and detail and exactly like the cars which will ho later turned out of metal and ivood. "We find this Is the best way to realize our ideals In building new models," Bays President John N Willys Wil-lys of the Garford company "Some concerns build a new part at a time and then fit their special machinorv to make this part, onlv to find later perhays that it is all wrong when as eembled This kind of experimenting I Is costly Our engineers find the clay j model a much more economical and I certain way or carrying out their i Ideas, for everything Is correct before ! a machine in the shop starts to work " i |