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Show DEMAND FOR TIRES SHOWS MUCH GAIN According to advice received by C. A. Gilbert, western district manager of the United States Tire company, all of the United States Tire company's com-pany's factories will be operated during dur-ing the coming winter on full summer sum-mer schedule. This means that thoy will be run night and day, three shifts of workmen being employod. The decision to continue this plan, begun last year, was reached at a conference in New York this week btween General Manager .1. M Gilbert Gil-bert and the company's factory managers, man-agers, W. McMahon of the Detroit plant, J. M. Pattorson of tho Providence Provi-dence plant, Harlow W. Walte of tho Indinanapolls plaut and C. B. Whlt-telsoy Whlt-telsoy of the Hartford plant. The conference con-ference of these factory managers was under the direction of C J. Butler, But-ler, vice president of tho United States Tire company and supervisor of production. Last winter was the first time in the history of the tire industry that It was considered necessary to maintain main-tain a full summer workin? schedule throughout the 60-cailed off-season. The plant worked so satisfactorily that It continuation was decided upon. The four factories produced more than 1,250.000 tires during the year, and their 1913 output will be far in excess of this number, the equipment of all of the factories having been increased, in-creased, and a new plant, the largest of Its kind In the world, being in contemplation con-templation "We fl?ure," says General Manager Man-ager Girbelt in discussiug next ycai's plans, -that there will be somewhere near 750,000 automobiles in use in the United States by the middle of next summer, hence we are measuring our (output of tires along broader lines, even than those of last year. We aim to keep our production up to a figure equal to a fourth of the tire demands of the country " oo |