The citizen-Republican. (Scotland, Bon Homme County, S.D.) 1???-19??, 1911-09-28
Pleasant Outing.


EMF 500 and The Flanders ,aai' au
tomobiies, returned last week Thursiin,
from IA four-aay trip to the factories a
Detroit. some eighty agents from 5
ID. and about the same number iron
Iowa, Were guests of w. + Flanders
head OF the Studehaker Corporation.
The South Dakota agents left Sioux
Fails on September 18th n Il specia
train provided for them by the con,pa
NY. The train from Dies Moints. In.
consisted CT six Pullman sleepers. tw.
diners, buffet a and baggage ear, A
Detroit the party was me- by fifty au
tomobiles from the factory and taker
TO n of the leading hotels for break.
fast, after which they visited Plant Nc
5 of the E-M-F factories Plant No.
is the factory at which 3a.tl0 Flanders
900 AUTOMOBILES will lie built this
year. In the afternoon the entire | ar
ty We're taken up the beautiful Lake
81. CLAIR on a chartered steamer Later
that night they were entertained at q
delightful dinner at the Hotel Ponchar-
train, and later at one of the theatres.
On Tuesday the party inspected Plant
No. | of the + M-F factories. where
some an,oa EN- f "S0''s will be built
this year. Practically every one of the
party wished sincerely that they could
spend a month at the factories, for it
would take almost that time to see the
entire ten factories
Mr.. Wanek says he saw automobiles
as he had never hoped to see them, and
Il tav prospective purchasers of an au-
tamohile could only see the wonderful
~ thorough manner in which EMF
sa3 aaIeT cars were built they GER
talniy would choose n other car. With
the EMF Company the process is
something more than the mere putting
together of the parts. The parts in ev-
cry branch OF the factories must be
made with absolute accuracy, and back
Of it all the materials must be of the
very highest standard. 1t is the proud
5oass OF the Studebaker Company that
the EMF ,'S0n and the Flanders .'20r
cars begin in the laboratory. where the
raw materials are tested before being
used. Mr.. Flanders, the wizard of the
automobile industry, is taking all of his
2,00a gents to the home factory to
show them of just what and Just how
his ears are made.
The party saw the process from start
to finish. Starting at the laboratory
they saw the raw material tested; they
saw the molds being made; they saw
the great foundry where the molten
metal was poured into these molds to
make the castings; then into the forg-
ing department where the massive
twenty-five ton hammers are doing
mighty work fashioning the drop
steel forgings which are used exclusive
ly even to the lamp brackets. Here
too, they saw the forging of the front
axle. The immensity of the machin-
cry department made them stare, for
the work of these wonderful machines
was positively uncanny. Multiple
spindle drills bore as hign as seventeen
holes at n operation while Others
bore, ream and mill the cylinders and
other parts with absolute accuracy. All
the balls, nuts, cones, screws and BUSH
iDgs are made by automatic machines
which need no other attention than to
fed the raw materials. Next the
party was conducted to where the big
steel stamping presses were at work
turning out and shaping bodies and
seats. Then the assembling rooms of
the company drew the interest of the
party as they watched the process of
building the cars from the myriads of
parts which make up the whole One
set OF men, and every man was an ex-
pert, set up the frame and put it on
wheels; another erected the motor.
me steering posts, dust pan and other
parts followed until the chassis is com.
u ready for the inspeetor-the
"hp hidS idult Will Inc slightest l
lmpeifection. The careful inspection
every part received before it was
sent to the assembling rooms was note
worthy, and again here the same care
md thoroughness with which every
ietail was watched and every different
operation inspected and corrected. La
.er the ear was sent to the men who
-ested them; where the car is driven
niles over rough country roads. After
oeing thoroughly tested the cars were
,urned over for final assembling. where
he Tenders were put on. the lamps
soay, top winu snieiu added and
he a stood completed.
None could competently describe the
interesting process of constructing al
ear. There are SO many, many things
o tell about it that one almost gets
ost in the maze, when trying to see it
his own eyes. When you stop to
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