The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1912-05-24
AUTO ENDURANCE TEST.
Was That Accorded the Fords on Trip
From Factory to Barre.

The Ford automobile party, which left
Detroit, Mich, week ago tonight and
arrived in Barre Wednesday night re-
ports that some of the fines. roads in
the country were traversed in the tip
of little less than 600 miles, while
the weather except for one or two show
ers was Of the kind ideally suited to
motoring. In the party that drove into
Barre at 0 O'Clock Wednesday night in
four touring cars and two torpedo run
abouts were Mr. and Mrs. d. A. Per-
ry, City Attorney L. L. Scott, Uriei
Premier, Ralph c. Putnam of Putnams-
willie, Willard Walker and A. ID. Har-
ris of Montpelier. The trip was made
without incident and no time was lost
on the way in adjusting broken, dis
connected or lost parts. As a general
ltie, the roads were in excellent con-
dition. and dust seldom interfered with
the pleasure of the drive.
After remaining for two days in
ispection tour through the Ford factories.
the party left Detroit Friday night at
Is o'clock. The trip to Buffalo, N. Y,
was made by ferry, the motorists tax
ing to the road at the New York lake
city and proceeding - Elmyra down the
fItHthStt NdIltN- III NliOStilS lHt ldtbti
latter route, they added somewhat to
the total numbe or miles travelled, but
avoided marshy roads which are said to
exist near Rochester. At the foot of
the valley the party doubled on its
tracks and went back to Syracuse, GO
ing from there to Utica. Amsterdam and
thence to Saratoga Springs.
From Saratoga Springs the six driy-
Il,
Fails, passing on thence to Whitehall
and entering Vermont near Rutland. The
cross over the ridge to this side of the
state was made near Pittsfield mountain.
Bethel was reached Wednesday and the
approach to the final destination was
made in the rain of Wednesday night.
Aside from this slight wetting, the only
rain encountered during the whole trip
occurred near Amsterdam, n. Y, Tues
day night.
In speaking of his six hundred mile
Journey this forenoon, Mr.. Perry said
that the magnitude of the vast auto
mobile fatories in Detroit could be un-
derstood only by person seeing them.
The firm employs between 5000 and
z 1000 men, or more granite cutters than
there are in all New England The la
borers work nine hours per day and are
all well paid.
The main machine shop of the plant
measures 250xl 900 feet. All of the build
ings are of concrete construction with
steel frames. The main shop is one
story high, but The mammoth office biuld-
ing with dimensions of IS and 1000 feet
is four stories high. The assembling
plant. two stories in height, measures.
$50 by 750 feet. Another building used
500 feet and is four stories high The
company possesses the largest gas en-
CINE in the world and manufactures
all of the gas used at the works.
1t is asserted that each machine emer-
ging from the Ford plant is tested three
times. Separate parts are first sub
mitted for test, then the assembled ma
chine and last the finished ear as it is
placed on the fiat cars ready for ship
ment. In the offices everything is clean
and well appointed. The Ford company
employs some 400 stenographers, who
transcribe letters from phonograph ree'
ords into which the business officials
talk The ordinary procedure in dicta.
tion has been abandoned under this
method.