The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-02-19
TO WORK 300 men
Smith Auto Company VIII Also
Put on Full Night Shift.
Building Will Be Built. for Much
New Machinery.
'CRUISER" NEW CAR.
Smith People Will Build Full
Enclosed Torpedo Model Car.
Other Improvements at Rapidly
Growing Plant.
The. Great Smith Cruiser."

1.-THE Great Smith Cruiser!"
What does that sound like? If it
makes you think of a fast, classy, air
splitting, graceful car of unusual for
realized Just what the new model of
the Great Smith is: You have in mind
the exact appearance of a car that will
Guido anything ever built in this coun-
try along foreign lines and for the price
of $3.50.
The Great Smith Cruiser is a new
car that is being manufactured piece by
piece in the factory in Topeka and the
assembling of the first car Is taking
place at the plant at this time. The Of
fcials of the company expect to have
the car on the street Monday morning
when it will be exhibited to the people
of this city for the first time.
This new car promises to be a prize
taker at the Kansas City auto show
rext week when it will be on exhibition.
1t will have an individuality that will
be characteristic to the Smith Automo-
bile company only and has never been
brought out by any other company in
the business.
Like Foreign Car.
AHe CRUISER is DullI along the Tor
eign lines-it is almost like that great
italian car the Fiat. 1t will be torpedo
shape-the front seats enclosed as well
as the back seats and the front end
narrower than the rear. This carries
out the torpedo effect to the dot.
The whole car is enclosed and the only
entrance to the front seats is on the
left hand side. The right hand side
will be solid from the hood back to the
rear entrance on the side. This will
be a new model in Topeka. There are
no other cars in the city at this time.
The Smith people are now building
three models-the touring car, the toy
tonneau and the torpedo or Cruiser"
These cars will all be exhibited in Kan
sas City at the show rooms and at
will also have on exhibition an engine
and power plant of their machine show
ing the double three point suspension
features.
Working Force to 500.
That the working force of the
Smith factory will be increased to 800
as fast as the men can be procured is
the statement given out by the Off
Gals today. The force has now been
increased to $50 men. But the out
put will be made into 400 cars year
and the company can't do it with the
force of men now employed.
In a few days night force will be
force. There is a small night force
on duty part of the time now, but as
the new machinery is being installed
the work schedule will be changed
and complete night shift made. This
will mean the factory will be in op-
Grafton night and day to keep up
with the business orders. ahead. Three
hundred men at least will be en-
ployed.
The output of the factory at this
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people are unable to attend to their
orders with this number and they are
doing all they can to get out 400 cars
a year-this will be realized in a short
time.
Addition to the Plant.
Preparations are now being made
to enlarge the present plant. Ground
! is being cleared and a building % by
| so feet will be erected at once. This
| building will be used as the new wood
shops. The present wood shop has
| been crowded off the plant by the
new machine room.
Since the new management took
hold the Smith company has pur-
chased and installed $4,000 worth OF
machinery. And this isn't all. They
have lots more on the way that will
| be placed in the plant as soon as ii
arrives from the machine shops in
| the east.
The machine room has been en-
| Iarged and the engine room changed
in fact there has been a regular
| house cleaning in the factory for room
| to install the new machinery. This
! has necessitated the new building.
The Cruiser is also giving the plant
! a cause for more machinists and
more machinery-and more room.
The officials of the company are
paying little attention to the stories
! that come out here and there every
| few DAYS to the effect that the miami
! will be moved away from Topeka to
some other city. They are hiring
more men all the time and maehin-
cry is continually being shipped tc
| this city. Furthermore they have
started on the new building as an ad-
dition to the factory.
| New salesrooms will be opened al
Bis Main street in Kansas City al
| once and this will be used as a dis
| tributing point for the cars.