The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1911-07-11
Four Local Automobile Man
ufacturing Companies Ex-
pected to Have Total Out
put of 800 Machines.
MORE WORKMEN ARE
REQUIRED IN 1912
Westcott Company to Build
an Addition to Its Factory
This Fall Many Sales
Made Already.

Within a year the automobile busi-
ness in this city bids fair to assume
proportions which will make it one OF
the leading industries of Richmond.
Owing to the excellence of the cars
manufactured here the demand for the
output of the local companies has in
creased steadily, year by year.
The 1912 output will be in the neigh
borhood of 1900 cars, practically dou-
BILE the number of machines built here
for the 1911 season. In increasing
the capacities of the Westcott, Davis
and Pilot Motor Car companies, to
meet this increased demand for ma
chimes, these respective firms will
have to increase their factory forces
and by December l, there will be al
least five hundred men employed here
in the automobile industry alone. The
Westcott Motor Car company announc
ed Tuesday it would build brick ad
dtion to the west end of its present
factory building on North Fifteenth
street, but with the other concerns
| they now have plenty of floor space tc
accommodate the new men to be EN-
ployed.
Making Classy Car.
The Westcott people who have beer
n, oh vary c1acSv ca1
| for several years and one which has
! held it's own with any other make IL
! the racing game, will have an outpu
of about 500 cars this year and the.
are planning to double the 1912 out
put. Already almost 500 cars have
been contracted for for 1912 and tht
stock and materials purchased. The
per cent and by December l a force o
22O men will be engaged, the company
anticipates.
| Plans for the addition to be con
structed will be definitely determined
upon within few weeks. Work viii
be started upon the addition and the
structure rushed to completion thi
fall.
! The Davis Motor Car company which
has been putting out a most service
| able and attractive appearing car 70
several seasons expects next year t
manufacture no less than 500 cars
This is better than hundred per cen
gain, as the 1911 output was littl
more than 200 cars. The increased
output will necessitate the employ
ment of from fifty to seventy-five more
men, making the total force about
hundred and fifty.
| With the Pilot Motor Car company
which was recently reorganized an
! is now we'll capitalized, stock and ma
teriai for hundred and fifty cars ha;
| been contracted for in 1912. In tn
men will be employed. One of tn
biggest advancements the officials O
the company believe they have mad
is to secure the Teeter engine, manu-
factured at Hagerstown.
A Popular Engine.
This engine is included in the equip
ment of some of the very best car
manufactured such as the American
In all tests to which it has been put
the engine has shown to better ad
vantage than some of the other style
| used. The Pilot and Davis peopl
will not enlarge their factories. a
they already have the floor space SUI
ficient for the increased output.
The officials of the Wayne Work
are not discussing their 1912 plans
This car has proven very serviceabl
and no doubt the output will be mucl
larger for the 1912 season than it wa
for the present season. which will sool
close.
All the manufacturing establish
ments are most optimistic concerning
the trade outlook for 1912. With neari.
all the cars they can turn out cor
tracted for eight months in advance
they know their machines are givin
satisfaction, as all Richmond product
have always done. Though competi
ton in the business is very stiff, tn
local firms are we'll established an.
the industry in a few years promise
to be as large as any of those songe
esta ablished.