The Oklahoma City times. [volume] (Oklahoma City, Okla.) 1908-1984, 1917-01-26

association with the world increase Of
steel output and the resultant widen
ing OF the scope OF the designer
"(c) The labor situation and the gen
eral growth OF education concerning the
pioiltablcncSs OF concentration OF ci-
fort.
There will he two ways only Of
causing the private individual to buy
4 motor carriage after the war Either
YOU will produce it at such a price that
y will be an economy for him to ac-
qulrc It, or will YOU cmbody in II such
a combination OF improvements. alike
~ design and materials. as will make
hlm diSgustcd with the finest motor
carriages so far available N any class,
therefore YOU will temp, him success
fully 10 part with his money
Must Sell Lower.
at may he recalled that before the
war manufacturers were wont 10 employ
special SteclS for making cars solely for
competition purposes. There were. how
ever hundred and one reasons why
they could not Standdrdi2c engines oi
high Outpu, then. among them being the
fact that the very special grade s'ccls oi
which they must be fashioned were not
commercially available Again. the rank
and file OF each factory staff was not
educated TO such highly specialized
work But the demand, Of war have
compelled one motor maker after am.
other 10 produce engines oi more or less
high output ior aviation work. The
original British designs that have
proved practical are few in number a
remark which apple, equally to the
cases ot France or oi Germany. for
instance huI manufacturers are never
lhclcSS gaining enormous experience
because many who are unable to make
high powered aircraft are reproducing
them from designs evolved elsewhere
War Causes Efficiency.
The difference between war and
nclcc work ior engines OF high output,
IS this that m peace time the udiv'd-
nal manufacturer produces lew cN-
lmplcN for competition work under
wha, may be STYLED more or less nur-
ycrv conditions Is that the cream ui his
staff oi mechanics is in constant at
tendance ON them, whereas IN war time
engines oi high output have tn be
standardized precisely as do those OF
touring cars and issued ,o the services,
whcrcupon they are placed IN charge
o' those who Tor the most part. had
never anything TO do with this class
oi engineering construction before the
war Hence experience i, being gained
ON an immense scale
There remains the question " price
The war has put an amazing premium
ON increase ot steel production The
point that matters IN this particular
connection i that, alike IN the case
ol this country and OF any oi the hg
engineering nations, postwar steel
production capacity will be enormously
IN excess OF normal requirements. as
distinct from those oi the hrlci recon
,lruJ,ion rush period
Material Must Re Utilized.
Steel makers will lind themselves
IN very keen competition one with an
other Those who will succeed in IN.
INK their order books will be the firm,
(which will commctcial1c higher and
vet higher grades OF steel on course
the way 10 make a better motor car
rage is not merely to employ finer
materials than hitherto the po,>lhlli
tics oi these materials must he real
,lcd TO the full hy utilizing them with
worthy designs.
Probably hy concentration ON ono
model to the factory. and So forth as