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Show SOME FIGURES ON I FORD PRODUCTION at Mere figures fall to carry any sig- i nificance when the Fonl plant at De- j troJt is under discussion. The fact ; Btbat 200,000 motor cars will be pro-mBduced pro-mBduced this year means but little until Ba basis of comparison is arrived at. IHt A writer in the American Machln- I BBt, who is writing of the Ford com-Spany com-Spany under the general head of FBulldlng an Automobile Kery 40 f.Becondi," gives some Interesting flg-tft-ajres iL For i nsi lUK e, th" National Acme iBlaiu:acti)rlnK company of Cleveland Aieed --' .".rluads of steel bars to make Hfee 4,500,000 .l-s Inch nuts used o;i .the Fonl v:r: 'Ih' lii'l.-- mi these nuts If pluced end to end would make IKlittU- tunne l from the Acme plant In JKleveland to the Pord plant in De-kHroit De-kHroit and extend 2'j mh.- up Into Jllllrhli-ran Another example worked out has to I do with the copper wire In the mag-netoes mag-netoes of the Ford cars There are 16 spools, each wound with 12 feet of copper wire, in each magneto If I the wire used in the 200,000 Fords made this year were straightened out Into one wire It would give a strand 38,400,000 feet long |