The Detroit times. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1903-1920, 1909-01-01
AT0 INDUSTRY OF
|CITY TO TREBLE
NEXT YEAR
ALI DETROIT CONCERNS ARE
PREPARING FOR BUMPER eUsI-
NESS INisos AND OUTPUT WILL
REACH $4,000 CARS

Deiroit's Importance as an antonlo-
manufacturing center is lkeiy 10
\ be greatly increased during the com
ing year This industry. which mas
done so much toward the rapid up
K building of the city through the en-
2 ployment OF thousands of skilled Ia
borers and mechanics. gives every
Szpromise OF taking "A greater stride ioI-
ward than ever before, and the out
n look at present is for the making on
n more than twice as many machines IN
the coming year as were ever made III
any other season
The year 1908 Witnessed a slump
in automobile production over $780,
but the Detroit concerns, manufactur-
ing principally light. medium-priced
4 cars. did not suffer as dad the trade
generally. The output here slumped
from $4,000 cars in 1907 TO III IN
\ 1905
II Is more than likely that the 1908
product will total $4,000 motor cars.
Present plans of all the nine large
4 Factories, as we'll as the smaller fac
I tories. are for great increase in pro
dnction, contracts being made already
B for materials and sales contracts con
Guided for the finished cars. In add
fomobile factory labor being better
employed. Detroit will prosper also in
the increased work of the 40 or more
firms manufacturing automobile ac-
4 cessories. In the aggregate. these
n employ more men than the auto fac
tories themselves.
r AS purchaser OF automobiles. De
&troit is also leading city. There
were 1.200 cars purchased here from
/ The % retail automobile houses which
do business. bare.
The following Is a brief summary OF
the projected plans for enlargement OF
the principal factories: The Ford Mo
Tor Car Co. has contracted for mater
n inls for IL 500 cars and may make 20
300. The Packard works will increase
Z from 800 cars to 1900 cars: the Cad
k~11lac will turn out 10000 of its new
models during the season. as against
q 1880 last year; an increase from 900
10 310O cars is the outlook for the
fChalmers- Detroit: the Eyerett-Metzger-
Flanders Co, succeeding the Wayne
and Northern companies, will market
12.O 900 cars: the Brush Tunabouts to
\ be made will number 5000 this year
Instead Of TOO as in 1908; there will
be 1000 Regal-DetroitS and l,50O
n Blomstrom cars while the Anderson
y Marriage Co. has decided TO make 500
Detroit electrics instead of 200 as last
year.
Plans or the Pungs-Finch. De Luxe,
4 Crescent and others have not yet
been announced: The Herreshoff Co,
Il new concern rs still installing ma
chinery but predicts busy season.
n While tho number Of cars made i'll
Detroit. In 1aO9 will be about treble
that Of 1908, the value will be about
double. the neY. cars running to stand,
shown TOR fodrscyrihder. light cars
that range from $3.50 to $1,000. and
the Detroit factories are getting that
business.
~ Dctroit's retail automobile trade has
shown tendency to shift during the
year. the new garages being almost
all OUT Wcodward-ave., with a pros
X Dect that soon almost all the retail
stores wiz have left the former auto
mobile row" on Jefferson-ave. Aces
series stores are filling in the gaps
' ln the old row left by the departure of
B the retailers.
The number of automobile licenses
Z IN effect in Michigan increased to 7.405
at the close of 1908 from $3.50 year
previously.