Arizona republican., 1919-04-01
AT TER 1 s YEARS.
 WITH FORD GOES. ! 1O OWN COMP ANY
Man Who Designed Flivvers and Machines to Make Them Has Decided to Use His GeE;us In His Own Business

C. Harold Wills has severed with the Ford Motor company and Henry Ford business relations N hich cover period of nearly eighteen years
 Mir. Wills association with Henry Ford beginning March 20, 1901, ante dates the organization of the Ford Mo tor company by two years. In fact, Mir Wills was the first associate MT. Ford selected in his original venture as an independent motor car manufacturer
 While unprepared as yet to make any definite public statement of his plans. MT. Wills announces that he is going into manufacturing business some what similar to the one to which he has given nearly two decades of his ex- trordinarily successful and brilliant career. He expects to open temporary offices in the Book building and is not affiliated with any other company or organization.
 It is generally conceded that c. Harold Wills is responsible for two vastly important factors in the amaz- ing success of the Ford Motor company. the first of these factors is the design ing of the Ford car. MT. Wills has had charge Of the designing and the manu- lacture or every automobile that the Ford Motor company has produced since it's organization June 16, 1909. The second important factor in Ford , success is the work MT. Wills has done in designing, organizing and develop , ing the huge manufacturing squipment ! and facilities which have made it pos- sible for the Ford Motor company to 1 produce nearlY a million automobiles q 1 year.
 It has been Mr. Wills, these eighteen ! years, who has employed, trained and developed the manufacturing heads of 1 the organization. 1t was he, who de- signed special machinery and equip ment, original methods and processes ! of manufacture to solve these problems unique in industry, because thus far, industry had not dreamed of such stu pendous production.
 i To solve these problems for the Ford , Motor company, to make possible the ! Ford car, 100000 Ford cars a year Mir Wills has gone into many branches of applied science and industrial engin- eering. He has had charge of the com mercialiZing of vanadium steels, vital factor in the strength, lightness and simplicity of all the cars MT Wills has designed. He has perfected the com mercial use of the new molybdenuul steels, which MT. Wills prophecies, will soon be a vital factor in motor cal manufacture
 Mir Wills played an exceedingly i'm portant part in the development of the Liberty motor. His engineering anC manufacturing ability was concentrat ed upon the task of quantity, as well as quality production of Liberty motors He it was also, who built up the or ganization and equipment, which in ar amazingly short time were making al 1 unequaled daily production of Liberty motors.
 In other vital war work and plans MT. Wills served as confidential ad wiser to the war department. Severa of his epoch making inventions. for tn. discontinue of the Hun, had prog ressed far beyond the experimental stage. when the armistice was declared
 Indeed. it is probably no exaggera tion to say, that, for his genius in thu original application of industrial sci ence, in devising manufacturing equip ment and perfecting organization, il finding new methods of accomplishin: unprecedented industrial achievements Mir. Wills is today one of the outstand ing figures in American industry
 Considerable pressure is already be ing brought to bear on MT. Wills b, NdflOuS clIleS, 10 secure the location O his business undertaking While tn matter is still undetermined, Detroit i hopeful of keeping to herself Mir. Wills contributions to the industrial suprem acy and civic progress of his nativ city.
 The question as to just what ney and startling development MT. Will will now turn his brilliant abilities an indomitable energy is generally con ceded to be one of pretty vital import ance not only to his fellow townsme of Detroit but to the manufacturin interests and some 10,000,000 motor ca owners of the country.
 T am anxious to do something wort while" MT. Wills explains. and thi seems an opportune time 10 start