Arizona republican., 1916-12-11

Some actlon'N
 Nothing was ever so impressive as oupStour of the great plant that turns out Willys- -ONerlandy cars
 Our, rullmans all Iafked Tn the ,ompany yards. There was room enough. fon there are seven and three quarter miles 0f track within the flant.
 Zach man got card containing a picture of MT. ANillys and an auto @rcph message or welcome from him. Next thing 1 knew We were lined up on the steps of thes stunning new ad- ministration builidne getting photo sra phed
 Elevators shot ns ur to thc com pany's own restaurant on the sixth floor. There We had Corking break fast. At each plate was Q copy of tie live new Wiilys-QVcrland house organ -"The Starter It mapped our day 8 . program
 Then stGrted our tour of .ne plar.,
 our guides were carefully picked men. They knew the plant from end tc end. and tho writes were small go that each member of the party could have his questions answered
 No odv .ouent To try 10 sell WilNs- Overland product without lnowin, this plant You can't grip ths im-
 
 It r. no piker business,
 Twenty-Five million dollars are tied un in land. buildings and machinery net to say word about the stock oi , parts and r,lW material
 From the roof of the> wonderful 1d- ministrat'on building. which Stands out Ike q state capital yon get d. great panorama of the plaIt Yog ean then readily believe that t oc- cupic, lo5 acres with 4.3S6fS0 square feet Of floor space in dailp use ana i production capacity of 1000 cars per .iav.
 You can appreciate the growth from -,e employees in 1908 to l7.3O0 iii IslS
 one thousand persons. more than the entire manufacturing force of many company. work tn the. dmin- iStrtlpn !sNd,ng alote. This stvpc- turc. 3f5 Aeet long. has every faciii:y for rapid WoTk including dictarhores. lts own telegraph And telephone lsys- tem and g mail handling department ufat does ghcut every thing but write She letters.
 Three hundded and eighty eight per- sons can te fed m .he restaurant zt lns time.
 Fu; this Is nothing to what his when you cross into the shops. Ii is whrl of action. yet all Is system
 Parts 1Y the untold thousands .rs here. witl value into thc millions If dollars. There are lines 'of mo- tors never saw SC mnny crahS shafts together Our eaiGe said e.90a -td have believed foo00.
 There is stock in uins stock .ia yards. stock along the wa!is. cpn- 1ectiYg rods, francs. lenders mud suarN, hoods. rims. springs. axles fgTrfqft fFrfge br Ike parts. steering rods pcdals--it is ar unenaire pro scsaion r ENrfN thirty d3ys>Sefs au' a"cra.se oi lt9p tons of steel come iu. l. is handled by 8 magnetic crane tAat enables tno men Co do @ worS trst fofmerlv required thirty.
 rbern arc amazing machines,
 The toeale press. for examplS held n all. TEis monster. vith its pres su'e of lc0n ions a.;a pcs cold steel -ik, 'ardhcard. X piece Of metal I'd to t comes oIt as Q gide frame il ean make 2"Gh of these in an eight hour day.
 other mighty machines stamp out radiator shells. lenders. c"~l dashog anl -ico~s.
 fon take off your hat to the dr6., forsina machines. Down comes the hammer age he fi~rs piece uf iron 's teaien Into shlyc. The complete drop forsing af ihs lront axle can be accomplished with oae ho4t
 Every kind oi lart requiring . strcneth was drop forged while w,. locked on. axles. crank shans. brnSe assemhlV iods, brake and control rods. spring shaCklcs. ge9r Hanks and hrass. rod sectors.
 We saW the companvs accurate flf sHf l9f T. special workman on each detail. On. works on the shaper another on ;re pianer and a third on die sinking.
 The multiple spindle drill in Wno operation drils all the holes in ;he front axle. This is euarapfee tha1 each will be in rirfi relation to tis- other
 Ii.was hard 10 drag us away from the antomatls tprret .athe that sar- faces and finishes fiv Nheels |, works as though somewhere within if- metal yitals a brain was concealed The workman has only to put on fhe rousl fly wheel adius; the first sci : of ~tnols uush inc lever. and let ih machine do the rest. u 7 The cast iron is peeled off as read fly its wax. Sometimes four or five operations are peTfdrmedt at once When one set Of cuttings Is done ths machine stops automatically. and tai next set of tDOlH comes automuticau into place Twenty operations af, performed in fourteen minutes. Twen ty-siN pounds sf metal afc remove, rom the wheel. One man scan watci three of these machines.
 The vertical cutter oi gears on fls wheels almost matches the tmret ltth. in interest.
 Moving up and down. tle cutter l fhe same tlne slowly reVolves. the q. wheel turning in the opposite dire,. lion. By the time complete retolu lon of the lS wheel has been ar. oompiished, all the Bears are cut
 We all fcll for the aluminium fouu drv md Tor the machines that finisl the aluminium parts.
 The multiple spindle drill pores A toles in the crank case iuf one opera 5ign- This is a proof of the superior fly of machine processes, for the hole must be in the right relation to eacl other
 Another machine smooths the sur faces Of the crank cases. finishini seven in nine minrtes.
 Diamonds. real diamonds. are Con suined with apparently reckless in difference in the wet grind room Placed h small tools they are used q true ihe, emery wheels OF which ar ground the bearing surfaces of tn crank shafts.
 They are bought in sl5,0oO lots,
 We looked on while forests of him Der Merc being turned into fodies il the wood woik department This lltm her comes in by carloads. As 2l4 fee of~wcod k required on small tour ing car. we could readily see why S much vstg reulired