New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-07-08
Queens Is
Becoming a
Motor Cent,
Forty-two compani.. D.
ing Business There !,
Such Lines
5000 Are Employ,,
And Value of Produc. l..
Year Ran Abov.
$37,000,OOo
5000 Are Employ.,

The trend Of automobil. p,o,...
and assembling is rapidly mov;,.
ward, with marked centrins . ~
Queens Borough section Of Ne, "
City, where to-day there are fo, :"
automobile manufacturing, ss,.,,r'
service and accessory plants, .,,,..
to an article in the AutomobIl. r
Der of "Queensborough," II, ,. ~,
publication of the Chamber o,r-
merce Of the Borough Of Ou,.,.
York City. ="
A recent industrial sur.v =,
borough of Queens by tia, o,,,.
ton shows that the value Of ~.
ucts of these forty-two .u,o. ~
plants for the year 1916 wa, ,,,,s
900. They also employed near, ~
persons. These manufacturer 49,, =,
lished in Queens for defnI.. .,..-'
reasons-the comparative ch.su,., I,
production and assembling n,.,-.,
tho relation Of the Port Of New
to export and cOastwise shipuI,, y
great rail transportation system,
tring at New York, the enormou, /.
market made available by rapid .,,'
extensions recently opened intoo o.,
Borough. The development Of ,h,n
mobile industry in Queens s.ar.. :,
the opening of the Queensboro a..
in 1909.
Nine-tenths of the sales Of al en-.
81 automobiles in New York Ci,, !,
made from salesrooms along Brc,.,,
from Forty-ffth street 10 Slr,,.,r
street, Manhattan. Columbus Cir, !,
Fifty-ninth street is the centre. pa
ninth street runs directly over Il. D.
River via greensboro Bride :,
Queens and it is only a five or t,,-
ute automobile run between any a i
plants in Queens and the sales c,,,
in Manhattan.
The records of the Bridge D,,.
ment of New York show that 70, q
year 1916, 3,525,O00 vehicle, ,r,s
this bridge.
A partial list of the names Of ~
ufacturers established in Queen, D
ough includes the Packard, Ford Me-
General Vehicle, Pierce Arrow, D..
ster, Studcbaker, Simplex, h,,
Maxwell, Renault, Delauney.B.Iu;
and Rolls Royce.
The automobile sales centre |, yr
haitian is in fact the centre Of ~
mobile sales for the entirs n,
States, as practically every mo.g.
corporation in the country main
its principal branch Office at thi,tr
and more automobiles are sold w,
IN this district than in the conf,
automobile sales districts of sny ssg
ilve cities of the country.
All OF these favorable conditions q
economical production and dis.rit,,,
have resulted in the establishes, \
queens Borough Of thirteen auto-,l
manufacturing, assembling and .r,l
plants and twenty-nine accessory 81
parts concerns.
In 1916 only SIS per cent Of h, y,
Der OF motor vehicles produced yr
manufactured in the East. 80 Der ~
OF the total sales was mad. n N
East, including export. from A,Lr.
ports. That in itself would be ~.
hclent reason for the location Of "a
ufacturing plants in the East, be. ~
most important factor in au.or..i
construction is the assembling Of ~,
$50 different kinds Of msnuiss.gn
parts to make a complete car.
A most important factor In asn.,
bile construction is the cost Of sav:
bling parts and materials. The dgr 4
purchasing agent Of an autors.i
assembling or manufacturing plr.
TO buy all these manufactured are
or parts to the best advantage cn
company, taking into considersta a
cost of freight on such mstersl 2
the plant.
The advantage Of plant lOa.s
therefore, lies in securing the s'r
possible average cost per car fr y
sembling all the materials and pa
required in the construction.
In the gathering together OF thsrI
needed for automobile constructo', !"
manufacturer in the New York are. y
at his command the largest svsiia
supply of parts, materials ard i''s
series. In this respect no Other @
in the country equals New YORK ~
economic assembling point for su''''
bile construction.
A large number Of these plants ~
ducing parts and materials USED y y
tomobile construction are ga
within the limits Of the city Of ~
York, and their products are s''L.
for quick and cheap delivery By ~
drays. al
The purchasing sgent Of one o. p
large manufacture in Queens
ough says that they can ruy ~.
cally all of the materials they zee
motor car construction from pon.
production east OF the Allegne.ia
that for their business New w.
cheaper assembling point W
terials and parts than any Que,
ton in the country. and suojee
delays in freight delivery.
As TO labor supply, within en! =