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Show PARTS MAKING BIG INDUSTRY Just as the number of different makes of automobiles has grown larger and larger each year, so has the manufacturing man-ufacturing of motor car parts increased in-creased in volume until today the automobile au-tomobile parts business ranks high among the nation's big industries. At a recent gathering of a few prominent automobile manufacturers in Cleveland, Cleve-land, Ned Jordan, head of the Jordan Motor Car company pointed out some interesting facts in this connection, while comparing the tasks which confronted con-fronted the motor car manufacturer of ten years ago with those of today. Although Jordan was not a manufacturer manu-facturer himself, in the strictest sense of the word, until a year ago, when he formed the Jordan Motor Car company, com-pany, his long experience in the industry indus-try made it possible for him to speak with authority concerning the situation situa-tion ten years ago. "In the early days of the business," he said, "one of the grave problems which confronted the manufacturer of motor cars was the obtaining of parts I for his product. In many instances, he had to build those parts himself. I because there was no general market J in which he could go to get them. In I some respects It was simply a caso of putting together anything you could laj- your hands on so that it would run. Too olten it didn't' run. in spite of the arduous labor which had been exerted in that direction. "Today the situation is entirel5 changed, with the builders confronting an entirely different problem. Shrewd and keen business men who have observed ob-served the great demand for motor vehicles ve-hicles have sot out to supply the parts for that product. And, now, instead of a scarcity of parts markets, there is a superabundance of them. But, the manufacturer must exercise most careful care-ful judgment in selecting those parts. ! He should obtain only thoso which are recognized as standard as quality parts, and that is no easy task, in view of the multitude of different makes " |