The Tabor independent. [volume] (Tabor, S.D.) 1913-19??, 1916-08-24
PASSENGER CARS MADE
IN FIRST SIX MONTHS
Ninety Nine Factories Contrib.
ute-96 Per Cent Made In
Michigan, Ohio and Indiana.

BY ], Edward Schipper. in Automobile.
When January /. 1917, marks the be-
ginning of a now year, more than $780,
900 passenger cars less than n year ola
may be travelling the roads of the
United States. or will have been
shipped 10 other lands. This prediction
ls not based on but upon the
fact that during the first six months OF
1916 or the period closing on June 80,
ut midnight, 754, 1902 passenger automo-
bilos had boon completed in American
factories.
In all factories throughout the coun-
try practically without a single eXcep-
ton, h rate of production is being in
creased at the present time. During the
year, from July /, 1915, to July !, 1916,
many production records were shat
tered by concerns which had installed
new methods of manufacture and new
machinery. During the year period
mentioned 1900, 600 cars were COM
pieted. n this enormous production
was made in spite of difficulties which
were more sever than those encoun-
tered for many years. This is partic-
ularly r regarding the shortage Of
raw materials and the difficulty Of Sc
curing adequate qualities Of labor.
Ninety-nine automobile factories pro-
duced passenger cars during the first
six moths of 1916. or this number 81
are located in Detroit and immediate
vicinity. Twelve are in Ohio, IL in In
diana, n the remainder scattered
about the country almost from coast to
coast. or the 754, 902 cars made during
the first six months of 1916, So per cent
were made in the three states of Mich
igan, Ohio and Indiana. OF this, Of
coures, Michigan claims the lions
share, with the great plants centering
about Detroit. Seventy-nine per cent
of all the care made in this country
from January to July were made in the
Wolverine state, or 595, 153 in actual
figures.
Ohio ranks second as a car producing
state, having made Is per cent Of the
total. or III, 946. Indiana made 2 per
cent during thef first six months, giving
II total number Of 10, lilo. The remaining
4 per cent of the factories were we'll
scattered, with a fair share in Illinois,
New York and Wisconsin, where the
natural railroad facilities lend them
selves to the quick delivery Of materials
md also render possible good shipping
facilities for the finished product. Both
IF these factors are extremely neces-
sary to the big producing concerns,
particularly GS regards shipping the
,ars, beca use each car takes up such q
arge percentage of space in II freight
FAR, thus ne~cessitating Il great number
IF freight cars to take care Of even the
laily product Of some of the large con-
,erns which have schedules up as high
as 1000 a day and more.
Ford leads the list of big producing
concerns with n record Of 29S, 900 cars
n the first six months OF 1916. During
he one ear period OF July, 1915, to
July, 1916, more than 477, 600 Fore cars
pr the parts to assemble them left the
shipping department OF the Highland
park factory. Second in order OF pro-
duction, as far as quantity is concerned,
Is the Willys-O Overland plant at Toledo.
This concern produced 94.477 cars dur
ing the first six months Of 1916 and
more than 1901 600 during the year i'd
Ing July I, 1916. Third in production
order is Maxwell, with more than 40, 900
for tn six months period and approx
matoly double that number for the IL
months ending July l. 1916.
Other big producers are Chevrolet,
Buick, Dodge and Studebaker, with
more than 10000 for the first men
toned and between 80. 900 and 40, 900
for the others for the six months pc
riOd. There are a great many con-
Germs ranking between 10, 900 and
10000 for the six months, and
them may be mentioned Chal-
mers, Hudson and Saxon. With prac-
tically all these companies production
activities have been sue that during
the first six months OF 1916 many moro
cars were made thar during the last
half of 1915, so hat he total produc-
ton figure for the year endin': July l.
1916, is less than double that of the
six months then ending.
Statistics OF Industry.
Some OF the statistical figures Of
automobile industry are enhancing.
They form a man of big business
and prodigious capital that has never
been equaled in the history of the
world. When it is noted that one
aInna tnTOa ont in half N-oDr |
over S119. 000, 900 worth of cars, it seems
beyond comprehension that
there should be any room for other
manufacturers, and yet there are 9S
others not turning out as many but
practically all prosperous and all with
definite manufacturing schedules. Dur
ing the year Of 1915, from January / to