Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1918-06-01
Liberty Motor Output
Being Delivered in
Line With Promise

"iitliG III tliS 4NSW 1OTh VII
the Liberty motor for airplanes. Theo-
dore NJ. Knappen says the manufac-
turing companies have now struck
their stride in quantity production. He
writes this:
Tell the crowd that is 1ynching the
aircrafters" that 5000 Liberty motors
blown and burned up and they will
know that the great aircraft program
has failed. Tell them that there is a
million dallars' worth of Liberty
motor scrap at one factory and they
will charge conspiracy. Well. they are
doing just this thing-the aircrafters.
And It Is because they and the men
behind them in the aircraft program
have been brave enough and strong
enough and decisive enough to do just
such things that the production of Ii.
berty motors is now beginning to re-
semble a rising flood.
The makers Of aircraft have plunged
and plunged again and again. They
know what war is. They know it is
destruction. 81
They have done what the country
would have them do. They have taken
great chances and wasted like con-
.querors. But they have won in one OF
the greatest and most impressive
CANDLES in all history.
The story Of this success In the face
Of abuse. SANDER. Misrepresentation
and ignorance is one Of the romances
Of American manufacturing-ar romance
touched with tragedy. This story viii
be told later.
It Is important, tho, that the public
be advised that the aircraft program
Is now beginning to deliver the long
promised goods and that In doing 80
1t is bringing to pass what even
friendly critics thought impossible.
In the last two days / have seen
enough production and impending pro-
duction OF Liberty motors in two OF
the six factories that have contracts
to be able to reaffirm all that I have
previously said about the assured
success Of quantity production.
The Packard factory is turning out
from twenty to thirty Of the big motors
day, whereas thirty to thirty-f1ve a
week rs the best record Of the largest
European plant. and the latter employs
5000 men on the work as against $500
in the Liberty motor section Of the
Packard plant. 1t is easy to see that
the thousand rivulets that feed the
river of production are now running
bankfull with a certainty that within
another thirty days at the outside the
Packard plant will be contributing
fifty motors day to the confusion OF
the Hun.
At Indianapolis the Nordyke Mar
mon company. after completing 1000
Hall Scott motors for training planes
In record time, Is now turning to
Liberty motors. The peak Of produc-
ton has almost been reached. and
when It breaks" 1t will have deep
and steady stream behind 1t.
The Lincoln company Is in produc-
ton, Ford is on the verge Of his pro-
duction and the other factories are
coming on.
The facts in detail will come later.
but the encoura cling thing for the pub
lie to get and hold fast is that sue
cessful and practically unrivaled
motor is now being produced by guam
tity production methods at rate CT
about thirty day. with only two fac
tories actually producing: that at least
three more will be in large production
within thirty days, and that from that
time on the Liberty motor question
will be one Of providing enough planes
for its utilization IN both Europe and
America. The motor Is now historic
The problems of the present are planes
and Transportation.