Norwich bulletin., 1913-07-04
DOlNCS IN THE AUTO WORLD
New Economy Record of Miles One Gallon of Gaso- Michigan Builds 25O Miles of Highway in a Single Day-Women Prove Competent Drivers

roads system so far devised' continues MT. Speare, and it's national roads constitute about 6 12 per cent. of the 365,0Q0 miles in the whole country
 "The national roads, maintained en- tirely by the government, are con- structed Az feet wide between ditches, and lead from the capital to the prin- cipal cities, ports and commercial cen ters, and between the principal cities. With the departmental or state roads, classes. the, national government has nothing to do except to determine their width, which is fixed by general laws according to their classification.
 "The United States has two and a half times the population of France, and about six times the road mileage. To balance this difference, a series of national roads which would connect our capitals and principal cities would duly amount to about IA per cent. of the 2,200,000 miles of roads in this country as compared with the s 1-2 per cent. in France, bringing the mile age of national roads per person~1n the United States about the. same as in France.
 With our enormous resources awaiting development by the extension of our road systems, there seems no reason why we should not proceed with the work of building national roads. National roads building did not ruin France; 1t made France great.
 "One modeI-tFse centering of all ef- fcrt upon the building of just one good car-that has been the secret of the success of the Ford Motor company, l" declares President Henry Ford.
 E"The saving in manufacturing ex- pense in a factory that centers it's eff forts on one product is tremendous, and in it the highest efficiency may be obtained.
 Building only one model makes possible the buying of materials in large quantities, eliminates unprof1t- able machine time by requiring only one equipment of machines and keep ing them always in use, and enables workmen to reach the highest point of perfection through long practice at one especial job.
 Machines used in the Ford machine shop were designed especially for the manufacture of the Ford model T car. There are certain machines wnose ca pacitieS are so large that they could do a years work of other automobile companies in three or four days. but they are kept running full time by the Ford company.
 Everything is highly systematized in our factory and every possible waste motion is eliminated. Materials in the rough enter the machine shop
  movement, progress steadily to the other, where they leave in the finished car.
 How important it is that the utmost care be used to guard against the loss of a minute of a Workrnan's time can be realized when it is considered that if each of the 16.000 men employed wasted one minute each day the com pany would be losing about 266 hours a day of productive labor.
 Five thousand Michigan men, from nearly every walk of life, have re- gently set af example which may well be followed by the whole United States by building 250 miles of excellent au- tomobile road in a single day. And the women of the northeastern part of the state, through which the new highway runs. are entitled to much credit, too. for while their husbands, fathers, brothers and sweethearts la