The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-08-08
Many New Buildings Con- tempIated for Huge Auto
 mobile Factory
TO PUT UP LARGE
 OFFICE BUILDING
Enameling Department to Have an Extension and Pattern Shop Will Be EnIarged-Demand Makes
 More Space Imperative

Large additions more than equaling ths size of the average American automobile plant are being started at the Overland factory in Toledo.
 According to officials of the company, the additions 10 the factory alone will be equivalent to almost 23 acres of floor space. In addition to the factory exten- sions, there will be a new office build ing 6sxs7s feet.
 One of the new factory structures will contain % acres of floor space and will be nearly three times the size of the original Pope plant, when taken over by John N Willys, president of the Wiilys- Overland company. This building will be five stories high, 400 feet wide and 400 feet deep It will be used for final test ing. Body assembling and finishing and will contain S0000O square feet of floor space.
 This building will contain even more floor space than the one recently com pleted for the Overland, which was 1000 feet long, 20 feet wide and three stories high and said to be the largest single factory building in the world. The new assembling and finishing building will upon It's completion, give the Toledo plant the distinction of having two of the largest single factory buildings ever con- structed.
 The enamelling department will have an extension put on it containing 3500 square feet of floor space. This shop without the new addition, is said to be one of the largest and best equipped in the industry. The sixteen large, cleo trically heated ovens have a capacity for turning out 40 tons Of enamelled product every 10 hours. 1t is declared by eleetri- cal engineers that the power consumed by these monster furnaces is fully as great a the power required for lighting a city larger than Toledo.
 The pattern shop will be enlarged by a three story, fireproof addition, S3 feet wide by 100 feet long. This new building will add 25,000 square feet of floor space to the department. The dry kiln building will he increased in size by a two-storS fireproof extension l45 feet by 107 feet, containing 3l,000 square feet of floor space The original Pope buildings facing Central avenue will be rebuilt and en- larged by 5S,o0a square feet of floor space. They will be made fireDrooi throughout.
 In addition to the enlargements of the factory proper the demand for more of- flee room has been such as to require new office quarters and the old wooden buildings will give way to a new admins tration budding. The plans call for a seven-story fireproof structure, made oi steel and tile throughout. The new office quarters when completed will contain l6oo00 square feet or practically four acres of floor space.
 It is declared that this greater pro- 6uction space has been made imperative by the tremendous demand for the two new cars just announced by the Willys- Overland company. Although big sale of these cars was predicted the volume of orders received has been greatly in excess of anything that could be foreseen. Although the production of the Overland company is larger than ever before in it's history and is steadily increasing the factory finds 1t impossible to gain on the erders that keep pouring in from all sections of the country.