| Show NEW NEVI PLANT FOR STEEL BODIES BODES Produces 1500 Per 9 Hours Fours Ec Economy Pro Pro- Processes Processes Processes Evolved L L 1 L Hains Hants of tho the O Ogden den Motor MotorCar MotorCar Car Car com company pan Hudson Hudson-Essex dealer deal- deal er cr er is elated over a a plant which the Hudson Motor MotorCar MotorCar MotorCar Car Co erected especially for the building of or steel all-steel bodies High spots of this new plant are In It ft body building has become I for or the first time In 11 the Industry primarily a Q steel stamping process For the first tint time also also bodies aro are manufactured on n the per percent percent percent cent progressive-assembly progressive system which has h s previously pre effected such remarkable savings In fn motors chassis and other automobile units The plant Is said by Hudson or- or of officials tidal to bo the be lar largest est single sing building building body unit In the world It has the largest battery of stamping sleet presses and the largest larg larg- largest largest est enamel-baking enamel ovens In the tho world The entire plant would mako make a 0 pressman's happy hunting hunting- ground The wa way some somo of the sheets are doubled back and out In Z Sand SandU S and andU andU U sections not to mention other shapes not comparable to any lei lei- tel let tellers lers of or the tho alphabet Is something that defies description 1500 PER D DAY Y Y The plant has a normal capac capac- capacIty capacity capacity ity of 1500 bodies per 3 D hour day The raw material enters on the lowest floor where here the tho presses are tre located and from that point moving moving ing along until the bodies bodlos leave havn the final assembly complete All Allmain Allmain Allmain main and sub assembly work la Is ladone done on moving conveyors whIch Is said eaid to be the first time this has been completely In an body automobile body body- building plant As an Instance of ot quality the steel sheets used In tho the bodies doors and fenders are aro of the same weight as Is used In large sedans One economy of this Is that the stand up to the action of the presses with I practically no breakage Scraps of steel left over from the stamping of large larg par parts are aro used In making smaller units so that final waste Is less than 1 per Ier cent SAVE S Y MAY MAN S I POWER PO It used to take tako four tour men s 's 8 hours to unload a freight car ear of this sheet steel It It now take takes two then 30 minutes minutes-a minutes a difference of 32 22 man-hours man as compared to 1 hour man hour It Is common practice to handle these sheets one ono by one by the tho use of special ton 10 electric Indu Industrial trucks whole crates are lifted and shifted about Unlike practice In previous steel bodies the parts paris are not welded to- to together to together gether Iother but ar arp bolted boiled and riveted by an entirely new process The gained from this method has been proved by road te tents teats ts In which I there has been no tendency for tor the bodies to loo loosen n up Thu Tho elimination of spot welding In all points of strain Is said Mid to elim elim- eliminate eliminate the possibility of loose Joints Aa As another economy take the tho of tho the windshields Even E the glass cutting Is progress progress- progressive progressive ive the plates passing over a 0 ler serf lea fee of grinding wheels The waste liae been beeD cut to almost nothing the glass Is accurately cut and polished at ot small expense The windshield hinge Is formed by roil roil- roilIng roll rolling ing over the tho edgo edge of o the th stamping which forms the top lop of the child frame and similarly rolling up the flange flango on on tile the th windshield frame support This leaves no joints Into which rain can leak and no chance for rattles to de- de develop de develop SOUGHT Most lost of the Ingenious econ econ- economies ec econ economies n which have been introduced are grounded fundamentally on volume The Tho Ideas are orIginal and In many cases ahead ahead of of cur cur- current current current rent practice but their use uso Is of course courso dependent upon large vol- vol volume vol volume ume The Tho entire unit from the raw material to final Inspection Is Isan Isan Isan an outstanding study In economy With these thue methods It has been possible to obtain economy yet to use the tho best steel the tho best glass exceptionally durable upholstery and the tho very cry lal latest In hardware |
