The Meeker herald. [volume] (Meeker, Colo.) 1885-current, 1913-05-03
ROMANCE OF THE FORD Auro1
Remarkable History Of Auto Concern
Told BY Norvai A. Hawkins

Remarkable History Of Auto Concern
Told BY Nosvai A. Hawkins
Organized in June, 1908, not quite
ton year, old, the Ford business has
grown from annual sales Of lesl than
1900, 600 TO annual sales Of more than
one hundred million dollars, and
from an annual output of only few
hundred cars TO an annual output OF
1900 cars.
Ford profits are equivalent to max
imum industrial esrnines on . capt.
t.lization Of $500 600, OOO-and on this
basis could probably, before its TWEEN
tieth anniversary, return the eqoiva-
lent Of this amount to its share
holders.
The Ford company has all the ele-
ments Of . successful enterprise: l.
1t manufactures . useful article; 4
its company is properly organised; 9,
it is amply financed entirely within
itself to successfully carry on it, OPP
Grafton; 4. its business policy il clear
and well defined; 8, Its management
10 capable, tactful and honest; g tts
factory IL we'll designed, fully equip
ped and suitably located; Z, Its prod
uct is perfect in design and quality;
8, its selling force is efficient-the
largest of its kind in the world and
backed by plain, honest advertising,
with complete service to owners; the
Ford Ia an organization of all young
men.
Not an executive head has been
added to single department. Of tho
business In more than SIX years, dur
Ing which period the output Of cars
and annual sales have nearly doubled
each year.
All this great business has been
built up from an original cash capt.
tai OF only 49, 600 and without even
q dollar or issuing any
paper.
We use banks only as depositories
to lock up money and earn interest
and this season in planning produc-
tion Of 100000 cars we never con-
suited with u banker.
We are at present employing In
our factories and at our branch
houses 1901 men, and all day work
ers, not piece worker In the plants,
and disbursing monthly about s7OO,-
600 for payrolls.
We recently figured on that the
total lumber Of men employed In
various plants throughout the coun-
try making Ford parts would popu-
late an entire city like Atlanta, Ga,
or Columbus, Ohio.
Our factory, which now practically
covers IS acres, is about as complete
and up to the minute ~ modern arch
lecture and latest machinery and
labor-saving machinery and labor
saving appliances can make It
As m illustration, we have = null
tiple drill that makes 45 holes In one
operation In the motor casting aud
does 1000 castings day. A plant
building only 10000 or even 5000
cars in year would have only ten
or twenty days work during the Sea-
son for such q machine.
We have two special piston ma
chimes that take the place Of 10 men
and 10 old type machines doing all
the necessary operations on eight
pistons every one and one-half min
utes.
There ism a wise In the Ford fac
tory, no chance to do any bench work
to straighten out the defect5 in any
parts, they must At or go
to the scrap heap.
Our total net assets are close to
425, 600, 600.
To give = better idea Of the coon
omy in production in . factory like
the Ford, listen to these figures and
items:
The oath day of last June the fol-
lowing schedule Of manufacturing Of
our 1918 output was decided upon.
our fiscal year commencing Oct. l,
1919, and closing Sept. 30, 1918.
To handle this production we re-
quire 1000, 900 lamps, $4,000 wheels,
800, 100 tires, 10000 tons Of steel, the
hides from herd Of 1000 cattle to
furnish the leather for upholstering
the bodies, the hair or bristles from
6,0OO, 600 hogs to stuff into the uphol-
stering, 1900. coo hickory billets for
wheel spokes, nearly 1000 600 square
feet of glass for the windshields, TO-
600 pounds Of soft soap, 1900 tons Of
moulding sand to make our castings,
2,O0O, 600 cubic feet Of gas per day for