Arizona republican., 1914-03-03
NJ DULL WAIT
 | FOR THE RACES
Fordster Ed Rudolph Sees Where They Make His Hendrie Tailored Tires and Assemble Fords In Los Angeles

The days of idleness between the 1 sousing of Los Angeles, and the de- l layed Grand Prix race, Saturday, were l not wasted by Ed Rudolph, proprietor l of the Ford agency in Maricopa, one of l the Como Estamos boosters from Phoenix. According to Rudolph. he watching the numberfess Fords go by on the beautiful paved boulevards that net Los Angeles county, but he had more serious things to occupy his at tention.
 For instance:
 The Hendrie factory. where they make tailor-made tires. and
 The Ford assembling plant, where they turn out complete Fords, at an unbelievable rate of speed The Hendrie tire factory is owned by w. c. Hendrie, a young Californian. whose father is identified with the rub Der interests. It is located at Torrance, the model industrial city F miles southwest of the city.
 Several acres are. given over to the plant and store houses of this clean, up-to- date little factory Two hundred men and boys gain a livelihood in the plant.
 The process of tailoring tires is in- teresting, and here it can be watched 1 from the biscuit to the packing case. Nearly everyone knows how rubber comes from the primeval forests of South America. Well. this rubber is softened and made into humps. and then cured and formed into tires by machin- cry and hand right in Torrance. The immense calendar or press, is the big | gest in the world where big things are common. It heats and rubs the gum 1 into series of flat sheets. It irons the l gum into fabrics. It makes all the raw l materials of the tire. Then, in a hand work room, they form the tires building them up on forms shaped just like the air pocket, that will ultimately | III the cavity. The fabric, the bead. 1 the sidewalks and the treads are all carefully affixed by hand. Then the
 tires are placed in steam boxes and 1 heated under terrific pressure until 1 the rubber is hardened into shape. 1 From sheets of rubber one set of ! workers form inner tubes. rolling them i on cylinders and then vulcanizing the
 ends of the tube to form the endless ! circles.
 ! Rudolph then went to see the place
 where they put the Fords together. This is accomplished in a six-story | building, right down in the city. Hun 1 dreds of men work there. in perhaps
 the best factory conditions in the west. i No minor and no unmarried man can
 work there. No man gets less than five dollars a day. and many get a great deal more Forty-two hundred complete Fords are always kept on | hand in the store rooms Parts for 1 thousands of cars are stocked at all
 times. Up-to-date methods of stor- i ing are made necessary by these big
 numbers. Wheelless cars are crated and stored nose to the floor. and tail | to the ceiling, on several floors of the
 building. Magnificent offices and sales
 rooms are in connection.
 It Is at this pleasant, hard working
 factory that Jesse E. Smith works.
 Know Jesse? You ought to- He used
 to work on The Arizona Republican.
 smith is now one of the salesmen. and
 was one of Eddie Rudolph's best little
 entertainers while the Phoenician was
 waiting for the races, last week. w. A.
 Fillmore another of the salesmen. ac- companied Rudolph back to Phoenix. to
 look over local conditions
 Said Rudolph yesterday: q never
 saw so many people interested in Phoe-
 nix as in Los Angeles. There was just one question that was repeated over and over again to me. It was, How . hlgh IS the water in the reservoir now 9
 Now ain't that great Course I told
 them 1t was high and coming up. and
 that we were going to have the most prosperous little season of history"