Show auto area tool shops near capacity output DETROIT the potential capacity of tool shops in the automotive area for small tools urgently needed for national defense production is pretty well exhausted according to chester cahn secretary of the automotive tool and die manufacturers association mr cahn said 70 per cent of the tool and die shops in the automotive area were working on national defense orders facilities tor for producing what is needed most have been fully realized and the problem of expanding is the most serious one cahn said ahe arhe most pressing requirement of 4 sf othna and die shops in the defense pic tare e were gauges and then machine tools tor for manufacture of aircraft parts he said he asserted that a majority of the tool shops were working on gauges fixtures and jigs ordered by aircraft companies much die work has been converted to tool work because large die shops were operating at only 50 per cent capacity |