Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1905-1919, 1917-12-30
DETROIT SHELL co.
USES AUTO PLANTS
Remarkable Speed Shown by
Auto Industries Committee
in Forming Company.

1t took about IS hours December
Is and IA for Hugh Chalmers, A w
COPELAND and John II. Lee, COMPOSING
the automobile Industries committee
to bring about the formation of the
Detroit Shell company with $1,000
coo capital, and a list of officers in
Guiding some of the best known
names of the industry. says AItomo-
bile Topics. John Kelsey, of the
Kelsey Wheel company is president
OF the new company, and the other
officers are: Vice-prcsidents, II. T.
Jackson, Hudson Motor car company
and Harry NJ. Jewett, Pa. a.se-Dctroit
Motor Car corporation. secretary, j.
Walter Drake. Hupp Motor Car cor
poration; treasurer. Edsel Ford, Ford
Motor company. The executive COM
m,ttee consists OF II. NJ. Jewett Wal
ter e. Flanders Maxwell Motor com
pany; Max Wollering. Studebaker
corporation; and A. Demory, Tim
fcn-Detroit Axle company. I J. c
beard of directors includes the off
GERS and executive committee, with
IL. =. Hammond, Gemmer Manufac-
turing company; Alvan Macauley,
Packard Motor Car company; Rich
ard II. Collins, Cadillac Motor Car
company; w. &. Rands Motor Prod
Ucts corporation: John Dodge, Dodge
Brothers: w. e. sietzger, Columbia
Motor Car company.
Both these officers and ample capt
tai were secured In the IS hours
work by the committee, and also
plant capacities that had been pre-
viously released by output curtail-
ment, At the start, the new com
pany will work on a s30,000,000 order
for munitions, and II is promised
from Washington that the total will
be many times that amount thru new
orders that will come as long as the
war lasts.
While the direct work that resulted
in the formation Of the company was
done by the new automobile indus
tries committee of the war industries
board, the prime mover was the orc
rance board, which found itself faced
with the necessity of producing
mountains of shells in the quickest
possible time. Knowing from the ex-
perience of but the past two or three
months that the automobile industry
Is best equipped for quantity produc-
ton, both mentally and physically,
the ordnance heads called on the
sutom obile men for help.
Thruout the performance was an
automobile industry affair, and even
the industry itself accustomed as II
T. to the doing of big things In the
most expeditions manner, has oeen
lGsping at the facility and ADAPTIVE
ness of the banking and manufacture
irg elements concerned in the nego-
tiations. Official Washington, so it
is said, views the work of the auto
mobile committee with much gratifi-
cation. and as conclusive evidence OF
the soundness Of its new-found faith
in the automobile industry as the In
dustry from which the greatest emer-
gcncy speed can be expected in the
time of the country's need.
Between eight thousand and ten
thousand men will be employed by
the new company, and will add great
Iy to the already large total of De-
troit- munitions production. The plant
spaces that viii be occupied are all
we'll known to the industry, and nave
been among the most prominent of
the idle facilities that have been men
toned as available for government
work.