The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1918-07-03
Company Has Hundreds Of
Millions in Orders for the
us. Government
BUILDING EAGLES
is IMPORTANT WORK
These Little Boats Are Believed to Be
Destined to Become One of the Great
Factors in Kidding the Seas of the
German Submarines.

DETROIT, Mich, July 3.-The magni-
tude of the war work, combined with the
regular production of automobiles, now
under way, at the mammoth Ford Motor
company plant in Highland Park, is al
most unbelievable Nevertheless, produc-I
ton is being held up somewhat by the
eyer-present apprehension of a coal short
age.
At present there are 81, 455 names on
the Ford Motor Highland Park payrolls.
tThis does not include 1,500 employed at
| the shipbuilding plant and like number
at the blast furnaces in River Rouge
| BY the middle of July the grand total
should be 10000.
/ Ford automobiles are being produced
lat the rate of about I,600 daily To be
| exact. the daily average was 1911 II
from June Is to June 81 inclusive, during
which period the plant produced 1882
cars On June 10 the company had bona
fide untitled orders on file for l0,607
cars, divided as follows: Touring cars
s9242; runabouts, 9,S2A; coIpes, 3.0l3;
sedans, 1878; trucks, SPA, and chassis,
| / .6l9. The fiscal year of the company ends
July 81 The output for the first 10
months and a days of the period totaled
65l, 1871, which is at the annual rate of APP
proxmately 10000 cars
Ford's war orders are estimated at
Efrom S350,0O0,0O0 up. They include
Eagles destined to clear the seas Of
U-boats; cassons, helmets by the hun
dreds of thousands, ambulances, Liberty
motors, 100000 aeroplane cylinders
trucks and tanks
4 The Ford Eagles according tt
Charles Brownel, publicity manager fol
the company, are destined to become on,
of the most important factors in defeat
: ing Germany. On Feb. 20 tile eagles
! nest was begun, and in few days tn
! first chaser will be lowered into tn
River Rouge, and started on its journey
Twenty-one boats can be assembled at on
: time.
I'VE expect shortly to produce a tan
which, to the tank world, win be wha
the, Ford automobile is to the sautoms
bile world said Mr. BrowRell Eft
thousand of them would help greatly t
> win the war. and they can be made a
rapidly as we make cars-our car fecor
being 1856 day
:. In little six-ehaired dark room at tn
! Ford plant. the writer was privileged t
, see the Ford tank in action-via the ce
J. luloid film route The little war INSTR
>, ment fox-trotted and waltzed, stood o
q end, took bitches like a thoroughbre
!. steeplechaser, and when they were to
q wide, waded them and crawled mp I'll
/ opposite bank, walked through barhe
!. wire entanglements with no perceptib
I halt, climbed to the top of mountain
Il coal, stood upright in a trench and du
1 itself out. and finally. in trying to do I'll
u impossible act of climbing a perpendcl
u lar embankment, fell over on its bac
/ A dozen men righted it within a half
II minute, none the worse for its experienc
. What would $4,000 of these terriers 1
y on the French battle front?
A. 1t is estimated that there are no
u $1,000 Ford ambulances doing war dui
over there There were 3,469 of the.
9 equipped and shipped from here, and
is thought that thousands Of Ford ca
a have been equipped by other government
&c and thousands have gone from the En-
s lish plant.
n The Ford Motor company's origin
x order for Liberty motors was for 500
"a The motors are now being delivered
u the government at the rate of l50 da
The Ford plant is doing its part With
. two weeks tbs number will be inereas'
u to approximately 500 The .governmel
a has already been supplied with SO
* trucks