The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1909-03-02

fnement is always going on, and no
detail, however trifiing, is overlooked
in this steady march toward perfec-
ton The legitimate automobile
manufacturer is typified in an essen
TALLY modern man; progressive, or
he would not be in the business; alert
end full of nervous energy, if he shall
succeed and survive.
The great element of progress in
| the nineteenth century has been in the
recognition of the value of scientific
congratulations in every department
of human conduct. Our science has
become sounder, our understanding
of its application clearer; and the
public has recognized that scientific
conduct of business means the SUBJ
stitution of universal experience,
learned with difficulty and applied
with toll, for the narrower range of
| individual experience which was at
the disposal of the so-called practical
men of fifty or one hundred years
ago.. OF this change the engineer is
| the representative and leader.
Departments of the Work.
| Aside from the designing and draft
| ing departments, an automobile
works proper comprises a large num-
Der of distinct departments, such as
the power-house; the pattern-making
shop and foundry; the smiths shop,
including forging, stamping, brazing
and hardening; the machine shop;
the motor-testing department, wheel
making and bodybuilding, polishing
and plating, body trimming, painting
and vanishing, assembling, tin and
coppersmiths' departments, carbure-
ter making, etc. All these different
departments have to be equipped with
suitable machinery and tools, partic.
ularly, Of course, the machine shop.
| In each company there may be said
to be several men of Importance with
different work assigned; there are the
| financial and executive head, the cap
tain of industry, who bears great
fiscal and administrative burden; the
| designer, who also bears a great bur-
den, and as type is of the brightest
and most scholarly of men; the SUI
perintendent, the producer in charge
| of endless intricate machine problems
| of detail and time; the purchasing
| agent, who, in awarding credit for
the general result, should by no
means be forgotten; the general man.
ager, man impressed with the mani
! fold responsibilities his title implies;
the sales manager, delegated to place
the product, and instil in agents and
users the necessary information as to
the machines and policies of his COM
1 pany; the advertising manager, the
hectic pencil-pusher, whose tireless
work is that of a large cog of the
| whole, and In way permeating the
whole, and the head tester, unique
character developed by the automo-
bile industry, who has the sentitive
| ear of musician and the analytical
power of logician.
The above outline is general; title
| is not identical with ability, staying
power and work done. Many men are
doing yeomen's service as factory
managers" secretaries" "treasur-
ers, managers of manufacturing de-
partment," or with no particular title.
But the success of every factor de-
ponds upon, in addition to many 9TH
ers in more or less degree, some such
group of men.
The Strain of Production.
The physical and mental strain
upon the managers of an automobile
factory is not at all understood gener-
ally. In their relatively new art they
must acquire and digest the latest in
| formation of the whole world as to
material. design, production, distribu-
| ton and care of customers. In the
face of this, traditions as to Office
hours, work at night, Sundays and
holidays fade away. No business ex-
lists in which competition is sharper,
or financing, securing material and
production more difficult
Automobile manufacturers appre-
| ciate that the merit of their product
depends upon the efficiency of the
men concerned in its manufacture.
Therefore many of them have mostly
highly developed apprenticeship and
welfare systems, and schools of their
own to increase as much as possible
the knowledge, both broadly and in
detail of their employees.
From such a source of advanced or
ganization and work we have the up
| to-date automobile, as to the running
| qualities and dependability of which
there is no question, and with the
economy of which, if the machine be
| properly selected for the given pur-
pose, the horse cannot compete. Dis
lance is covered more quickly in
more comfortable and pleasant way
at less cost of money and time.
The transport of passengers and
freight on the highways of our coun-
try il just as important in many ways
as their transport on rails. In this
sense both are vital to the adequate
development of production and dis
tribution from and communication
with farm, home, office and factory
We can see clearly many specific per-
manent demands for more and more
motor machines, They are required
in the mail service, in fire department
service, examples where speed is
| leading factor. THE automobile" is
topic of almost any conversation
of material length by people of all
classes. Greater and greater guam
titles OF pleasure automobiles will be
sold as people are more and more able
to purchase and understand them.
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