New-York tribune., 1911-04-02
AUTO NEWS Of THE DAY l0zER PLANT OPENS
New Factories in Detroit Ready
for Making Automobiles.

Detroit April 1.-The raising Of The
American flag on the administration build
ing Of the new plant OF the Lozier Motor
Company. on Mack avenue. Monday morn
ing will mark the completion and Tor
nal opening of the newest OF Detroit al
ready large number of automobile enter
prises This factory. which has been under
construction since last May. commences
operatons with a force Of 80 men. which
will be increased as rapidly as possible
until all departments are in fun opera
tion.
This new automobile plant is located on
a site comprising sixty-five acres. Win
frontage Of eight hundred feet on Mack
avenue II was built to enlarge the manu-
featuring facilities OF the Lozier company
their cars having heretofore all Deen buii'
in the plant at Plattsburs. " l. ms
factory will continue TO operate as here
tofore. but will build only complete units
FOR use i'm the Detroit works the latter
plant being the only one in which the com
pleted cars will he turned out. The two
factories at Detroit and PlattsburS VIII
have combined output Of one Thousand
cars for the coming season. all parts OF
which will be made in these factories from
ra materials.
The buildings comprising the new Detroit
factory arc absolutely freproof. con-
structed Of steel and concrete. the nat slap
type of construction being here employed
for the first time in an automobile factory.
The main building. two stories in height.
covers tho entire frontage OF eight nun
dred feet on Mack avenue. with side wings
extending back approxmateiy Two hum
dred feet In this building are located the
factory offices. restaurant, final assem-
bling, physical and chemical Laboratories
and experimental departments. together
with the body construction and finishing
department.
Building No j. of one story >awtooth
construction. covering $500 square feet.
and contains the machine shop, chassis as
sembling finished stock and chassis test
ing departments. other buildings are de-
voted 10 heat treating. rough stock. garage
and other purposes OF this nature and all
are of reinforced steel and concrete con-
struction.
One OF the features Of the new LoZler
plant is the power building. containing
1900 square feet of floor space. divided
into two sections. one for boilers and the
other for engines air compressors and dy-
ramos. This department is equipped with
TWO 3yU-horsepower water tube boilers and
Detroit stokers: one Hamilton corliss en-
gne. direct connected to a 62J Is. '. \.
Allis- Chalmers generator and Laidlaw Dunn
Gordon air compressor. All departments
OF the factory are operated by electric
po,,or generated from this building. Nnc'.'
Per cent Il the machinery throughout TINS
rlant il entirely new and of the latest mod
crn type installed entirely with the view to
~ oducing high class motor cars The
grounds are inclosed by concrete fence.
capped with ornamental iron grating and
entered through steel gateway.
The administration department offices are
parked in the grounds in front of Tho fac
tory building. ana contain the general of.
fees OF all departments Of the company,
tie New York city and PlattsburS offices
now being consolidated here.