Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1916-12-19
OVERLAND Man IS
AFTER TRIP
/ THRU BIG PLANT
J. A. GRAHAM TELLS OF ASTONISHING
BlGNESS OF THINGS At GREAT
FACTORY At TOLEDO, OHIO.
5000 DEALERS VISITED PLANT IN
ANNUAL CONVENTION TRIP-"SOME
ACTION" ALL WAY THROUGH.

J.. A. Graham of San Renito, Wilvs-
Overland dealer IN tins city. who IS one
of the 5000 dealers who visited the great
Toledo plant III connection with the i'm
mense convention now III progress, re-
counted his experience on has return Mon
day. He said:
"Sorne action! Nothing was ever so i'm
pressive a our tour Of the great plant that
turns out WHY'S Overland ears. Our Pull
mans all parked in the company yards.
There are seven and three-quarter miles OF
trevK within the plant. Each man got a
card containing a picture of Mr.. WHY'S and
an autographed message of welcome from
him. Next thing | knew we were lined M,
on the steps of the stunning new admins
%tration building getting photographed.
elevators shot u 10 the company's own
restaurant ON the sixth floor. There We
had a corking breakfast. AT each plate
was a copy of the live new Wills Overland
house organ. The Starter 1t mapped our
DAYS program. Then started our tour Of
the plant. Our guides were carefully pick
ed men. They knew the plant from end 10
end, and the parties were small % that each
member of the party could nave his ques-
tions answered. Nobody ought Ia try "a
sell WHY'S Overland product without know
ing this plant. Ii j. no piker business.
80. 000, 900 are tied up in land. bindings
and machinery. not To say n word about
the stock Of parts and raw material.
From the roof OF the administration
building YOU get q great panorama Of the
plant. Ion can then readily believe that
It occupies lo3 acres. with 4.iS6.6S
square feet of floor space ~ daily use
and a production Of 1000 ears per dav.
You can appreciate the growth from 25O
employees in 1905 to l7.3300 in 1916. One
thousand persons work in the adminstra n
| ton building alone. This structure. 375
Get long. has every facility for rapid
work. including dictaphones, it own tele-
;raph and telephone system and a mail
handling department that does about
everything but write the letters. Three
hundred and lightweight persons can be-
ted IN The restaurant at one time.
"Bui this is nothing 10 what hits when
you cross into the shops. II j. a whirl
of action. vet all Is system. Parts by the
untold thousands are here, with "A value in
TO the millions of dollars. There are lines
Of motors. | nver saw so many crank
hats together. Our guide said 5000
I'd have believed 60, 1000. Every thirty days
sees an average of 1000 tons of steel come
in.
There are amazing machines. The tog-
gle press, for example, held Us all. This
monster, with its pressure Of ZOO tons,
| shapes cold steel like cardboard. A piece
Of metaled to it comes ont nj a side
frame. 1t can make 1000 of these in M
eight hour day. Other mighty machines
stamp out radiator shells, Tenders, COW
dashes and doors.
at was hard IL drag ~ away from IN,
automatic turret lathe that surfaces ans
finishes fly wheels. 1t works n though
somewhere within it, metal vitals a brain
was concealed. The workman has onl,
to put on the rough fly wheel. ADJUST thu
first set of tools, push the lever, and lie
the machine do the rest.
''The east iron il peeled off a. readil,
Us WIN. NbfltAilnf- ltuI bI live OptIu
tons are performed at once. When on
let Of cuttings j. done, the machine stop
automatically, and the next set of tool
comes automatically into place. Twent,
operations are performed in fourteen min
uteS.
I'VE all Ell for the aluminium foundr,
and for the machines that finish the alum
mum parts. The multiple spindle drill
borc~ II holes in the crank case in OPP
. operation. Another machine smooths tn
7. surface Of the crank eases, finishing sew
rn in nine minutes.
Il REAL DIAMONDS ARE CONSUMED.
Diamonds, real diamonds, are con
.l>umed with apparent, reckless indIffer
ence in the vet grind room. Placed II
. small tools they are used 10 true The ener
wheels on which are ground the bearin;
surfaces of the crank shafts. They ar
bought in $4,000 lots.
I'VE looked on while whole forests o
lumber were heing turned into bodies II
he wood work department. As PA fee
/. ii wood j. required on a small touring ear
we could readily see why % much was re
!. auired. You make this round and yol
can understand this company's immens
! consumption of material - lS,000.0O
pounds of solder annually. $500. 90
pounds of tin and lead for >moulderin,
4 10000. 900 pounds OF brass and copper
Il. O0o zoo feet Of steel tubing and lbs, 90
tons of steel.