Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1912-07-20
CO. PLANNING
FOR NEW PLANTS
Big Auto Factory Is outgrow-
ing Detroit by Its Ire
mendous Business.

DETROIT, July 20.-The big Ford
automobile factory is outgrowlns
Detroit. So tremendous has its out
put become and so great are the. de-
mands being made upon it for tne
future that it has been found neces-
sary to adopt a. new policy, by which
in the near future the work of as
sembling cars in the parent plant
will be largely aided by the estab-
lishment of a series of sub-factories,
or assembling plants, extending ali
over the country. Beginning with
the coming eason at least eleven
of these new plants, any n of
which would made a sizabla auto
mobile factory in itself, will be in
full operation. Before another year
is passed it is planned to have a
Ford satisfactory in practically every
large business centre of the country.
'Of course. these plants will only
be for assembling, storage and sales
purposes-and non of the parts of
Ford cars will be made in them,"
said Mr.. Henry Ford yesterday. I'VE
are planning to meet the conditions
forced upon us by a world-beating
demand for Ford ca~rs-that's all. We
are going to erect a series of sub
stantial buildings, n in practically
every large distributing point from
coast to coast. The Detroit factory
will continue to make Ford cars
just as it has in the past, but in
stead of assembling them all in De-
troit parts will be sent to the
branches and many thousand cars
put together there. This will give
us more room here and enable us to
ship practically three times as many
complete automobiles in each freight
car as we are now shipping. When
one considers that we are now load
ing at the Detroit factory nearly
200 freight cars a day, some concep-
ton can be formed of the saving of
both time and money which this new
departure will make.
when we built our present fac
tory a little more than three years
ago we were sure it was large enough
to meet our needs for several years.
1t was then the largest and most
completely equipped individual auto
mobile factory in the world. But
the first year tested its capacity.
This year we have nearly doubled it's
working area, n we have made it
in many respects the model factory
of America, which has helped to
increase the general efficiency and
volume"
Mr.. James Couzens, secretary and
treasurer of the Ford Motor Com
pany, has been laying plans for some
| months for the execution of this vast
| project.
Before we will have carried the
plan to its completion" said Mr..
Couzens, IAN Investment of several
million dollars will be called for. We
shall probably have some twenty or
thirty of these assembling plants in
full operation before very long. Al
ready the property has been pur-
chased for many of them. In Los
Angeles. San Francisco, Portland and
Seattle the building plans are already
out. Real estate transactions have
been secretly and privately closed at
many ~points-and are rapidly being
closed at others. In some of the
cities the investment will reach close
to a half million dollars. All of this
property of the Ford Motor Company
will own absolutely. The intire prop
~osition will be financed from the COM
pany's resources-and not a rollar
will be borrowed for the undertake
ing"