The herald and news. [volume] (Newberry S.C.) 1903-1937, 1916-10-20
President Flanders Has Made Good---MaxweN in It's
Glass is in the Race for Leadership doubling
Its Output FUery Year---The Basis of IFS
Successes Some Notes From Visit
To Detroit.

auguraton OF the present per dividend rate
To find out factory organization anu
men the writer took recently to get down 10 uno@
menas at Detroit He Maxwell Motor cars oelng run o0
m the factory at such pace circus tent no "
be provided covering between 1actory anu ieis
until more buildings under could be hrlsneo'
The record hung up day he left was Az cars anu Tue
,ious day was 400 for output present eapae
nnt At the rate of 10000 against 0oVoO p
out the past months and 10000 the previous '
Reasons Maxwell Success.
The progress of Maxwell has been town talk Id Deol"
due:
First model policy. ..,,
cond good name never changed and always mechanically
maintained.
Third sound financial policy.
Fou good generalshp anifestng itself in detail from
btrary and shop efficiency educational and selling
zation covering entire country
When Walter Flanders was selling heavy machine tools made
IN Rhode Island getting touch with eVeronlns IL
featuring organization from chemist to salesman ne ~ ~
ed of his future industry where he was 10 MAKE m ~
had not been unconsciousy ne ealHeu WIZ ~ -
and what was what and how to put them t0se'nei' ;
7, tho Ford factory ability in organization anu "
- honics had full play Today has fuller play IN tne MAJ
veu works where armies of wheels and trains oi 1tS ~
over and under other and pass on the pia
- f final inspection In than three noors 'ne' p
,as naint wheels under heat and hammer anu tniUe
ehs - d rany almost human machines without nuinan
Rssis For Ten Per Cent. Common Dividend
+ # is the steady march Maxwell motors over tne eo
& factory to individual operator that has put s'oOO0
, IN +ba Maxwell bank account with no deOs' Inc o ~
the orders ahead the manufacturing se'i-rs @ s
uo+ons have placed Maxwell on its present oi'iueno ~
Va 5is 10 per cent dividend present output uoe M
- 80 -oncb as s12 per car, per cent OF ule @0'0
n+,obon Steel the common stock about Slo'OOo'oo0'
,ation to the gross relatively small stocs
MON stock is about s13Oooooo OF per cent THO COM
80 aor+ $40 100000 of per cent second pie r obaaJ
ana a'oU' 49,, sdod or floating dividend charges a
pans ~ shares including sinking funds are uAue 900
oco Vet the company has earned n p noses this fs-
@ @ ;+, reduction in the price OF its cars anu oacbng
Wv W, 90 Machining Aug again douOle 10 t ings nv 50
cal year 0es nnurn and increase its net earnings D' ~
. ~ ~ bno reducing the selling price SOV p0 :. - arecu>
- is the business the directors - Potter Eugene
- o,o+tee of fve-J. c. Brady "A -, ~ New York
- r. u Bronrer and Henry sanoets ~onco. of q strong
to keep the hnacal 'Ne
o~ocutve mana cement o. . few wears ago
1900 II was the great task OF the olFe -, gonization
n over the field find the man TO n0" ~ 49, aroa+ nos
10 l n;ce might meaa failure and success op .e this
Error IL o ~ +bav found in Walter E. FLANDERS l
of q poicy and then push oi 'io o -
And the goal is first place arter Rotu IVA Wv
Maxwell Laboratory and Shop hetnooS'
7a+;o1 snecess does not begin Wall Street 1t Des1ns IN
~ .+orv And IL it deal material it begins III Iie
laboratory Maxwell has several plants ana more ' ~
laboratory. -
President Flanders pick his chemist with accuracy
and if one is admitted various rooms in the noneas COT
ner of the Dro plant many scale deVlces
nents and croscopca tests for determining IN many
the strength of metals castings and finished parts
Maxwell is not an assembling proposition is built complete
the Maxwell plants
motor car successful popular field must be balanced
in lightness, strength and durability
It is because ghtness and perfect balance addition to
marveously efficient engine that Maxwell wins at the scientific
school tests in the number of miles gallon OF
gasoline will carry
The Maxwell sets its standard twenty-five miles gallon
for average running regular conditions approach
this means "a wel-baanced and efficient engine
If YOU doubt the standard into garage and try
TO push motor cars by The Maxwell will respond
to this test
Next after chemistry shop organization and mere Mr.
Flanders again proved the expert in picking experts OF
unousoned ability to conduct highly organized Maxwell shops
Shop Efficiency.
The clocwork regularity with which metal parts move OIL
revolving carriages automatically pierced with drills work
ing in unison assembled and rveted and the motor
output record minute minute in Illuminated ngures
overhead would indicate hustle and hustle not some
strife But here neither waste to be seen SHOP
efficiency calls regularity motion The rush is not IN te
machines but is IN the spee