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Show ICiaSEBOEli FOB MSH MOTORS ENLARGES FflCTDRY Increased demand for products ot the Nash Motor company is reflected in substantial additions to the great plant at Kenoaha during the past year. It Is in this factory that Nash slx-cyllndcr slx-cyllndcr cars and Nash trucks? are built, the new plant in Milwaukee, now under construction, being planned for the exclusive production of the Nash four. In addition .to new buildings that have been added to the Kenosha plant Jn the past twelvo months, thousands of dollars' worth of additional machinery ma-chinery also has been installed. As a result, the factory of the Nash Motois company is regarded as one of the largest and most thoroughly equipped plants in the automotive industry. To the visitor at tnc xvasn tactory it is plain that the dominating ideal is that of fine mechanical precision of organized accuracy No matter where the eye may turn in these shops it can find fresh evidence of the fact that the pressure of expansion, tlj continually Increasing dt.nand tor Nash products, is being1 provided Cor; by the multiplication of m'echaivcal efficiency by the development ajirt installation in-stallation of marvelous automatic machines ma-chines made to do many things at o:h time instead of a low. An important addition to the factory is found in a building 129x120, whloli was added to the large foundry. There also has been constructed a foundry I warehouse and pattern -storage by I 100 feet. Other new buildings include a new roller bearing: tool room smd pattern shop. 100 by COO feet, and tin addition to the shoet metal shop mnas-tiring mnas-tiring 32xl'3G feet. Four courtways that formerly sep-' aratcd long: lines oCr sawtooth build-j lngs have now been roofed and turned Into component parts 'of tho factoiy. One of these measures ISOxIC feet and the others 00x257, 00x257 and I 42x236. v ' Under construction 'there are how a new boiler room 50x50 feet and an addition ad-dition to the heat-treating department measuring .10x140 feet; The construction of all these buildings build-ings is thoroughly modern and -.van carried out without interruption to work in tho busy Nash shops. There are In operation In the Na3h factory over 1,500 productive machines ma-chines and over 300 factory maintenance mainten-ance machines; the plant embraces 1,011,332 square feet of floor spacv, and in the power plant -which Ueops the machinery In operation 120 torts of coal arc used every 24 hours. Five thousand men are on the pay roll of the Nash Motors company. I no |