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Show THE CHEVROLET LARGE PLANT 1 Increased Demand Calls For Enlarged Manufacturing Manufac-turing Quarters. Not less than 2000 cars per day will be produced within hIx months byj Chevrolet Motor conipanv, according! to William S. Rnudsen, vice president In charge 01 operations. "Additional space Is Imperatively' needed " said Mr. Knudsen, "In order 1 to meet tho Increasing demands fori Chevrolet cars." "We have secured at Ruffn'o. X T. 29Ms acres of land about four miles from the center of the cltv. On It we will erect 400.000 square feet of floor I space for Chevrolet production and the I'lsher Llodv corporation will erect I 200.000 square fret on the same plot' for the production of Fisher bodies for Chevrolet. Chevrolet will employ about 2000 men and Fisher about 1800. The payrolls will total about $23,000 dally." "At Cincinnati. 1C acres have been, acquired In the suburb of Norwood. about .'i1. miles from the Cincinnati City hall. Hero Chevrolet will have 206,000 square feet of floor space and ( Fisher ISO, 000." "Chevrolet Will employ about 1 200 1 men and I'lsher about 900 In the production pro-duction of about 300 cars per day, with a daily payroll of $1 4,000." "The combined production of theso new plants. 800 per day plus present 1 facilities of 1 300 per day will provide a prand total production of about 1100 Chevrolet per da yns soon as these! new pinnls are on a basis of full operation." op-eration." The Chevrolet car Is bandied In Og-den Og-den by the Alklre-Smlth Auto company. |