The Washington herald., 1915-07-25
OVERLAND CARS
MAKING RECORD
Nine Thousand Autos Left
Factory in June Of
This Year.
SHIP 400 EVERY DAY
President WHY'S Adds Acres of Floor
Space. Yet Untitled Orders
Mount to 10000.

Never before in the history Of the au-
tomobile industry has any manufacturer
Of medium or high-priced cars equaled
the record made in June by the WHY'S
Overland Company. More than 5000 Ov-
erlands were shipped during the month.
The June shipments. amounting to
500 cars, show an increase of 1S3 per
cent over those Of June, 1914. when 3.2sS
cars left the Toledo factory. In the first
six months Of the calendar year the
company has shipped almost as many
cars as they did during the entire
twelve months of 1914. or practically
doubled their last years output.
The previous high water mark In
Overland production was in the month
Of March. when zoos cars were ship
ped. The record shipment for June ex-
ceeds these figures by about 80 pei
cent. This jump in production is in
mand for the Overland product.
Even in Canada, where one would
look for a decrease instead of an in
crease in sales, on account of the gen.
eral retrenchment due to the war
there has been an unprecedented de-
mand for cars. More Overlands have
been shipped and sold there, so far
this year. than during the whole OF
1914
Export shipments, not including
Canada. show the same remarkable in
though the year is but half over, il
was found at the close of June that
foreign shipments had amounted to
fully 10 per cent of the entire export
shipments of 1914.
Orders Gain Steadily.
In spite of the fact that more cars
are being shipped daily from the Over
land factory than ever before, orders
are showing a steady gain on ship
ments. When the books were closed at
the end of June. it was found that two
remarkable records had been estab-
lished. Not only had the Overland sur
passed all previous months in ship
ments of cars, but the number of I'M
filed orders on hand was greater
than at any time in the history of the
business. These untitled orders totaled
10000.
John N. WHY'S. president of the COM
pany. is straining every effort to cope
with this unusual commercial prob
lem. The manufacturing facilities of
the factory have been steadily IN
creased. The daily output has grown
larger and larger. In a comparatively
short space of time, the production
has jumped from 200 cars a day to the
present average of 400 cars day. An
army of Overland employees, number
ing 11,400 men, is necessary to keep
the plant going at full capacity. Many
Of the departments are working on a
continuous twenty-four hour schedule.
which keeps a night shift of 1900
men busy.
Ire recent addition of seventeen
acres of floor space greatly enlarges
the manufacturing facilities of the
Overland factory. making it the largest
plant devoted exclusively to the man
ufacture of automobiles in the world.
Today the plant consists of sixty-seven
buildings. containing more than sew
enty-nine acres of floor space. Eight
years ago the Overland production
amounted to 400 cars a year. Today.
the Toledo factory ships at least 400
cars every twenty-four hours. Mr..
WHY'S plans to increase this produc-
ton to 500 cars a day before the ex-
piration of the present season.