Bisbee daily review., 1920-02-29
BUICK PROGRAM OF BUILDING IN
 1920 TO BE HUGE


 President H. H. Bassett. of the Buick Motor company, Flint, Michi- gan, announces the details of one of the most extensive building programs that has ever been undertaken by the Buick Motor company
 It involves the expenditure during the year of 1920 of approximately $1O,000,000, of which nearly $7,500 ,o00 will be invested in new buildings and equipment at Flint, the remainder to be expended in the erection of a new assembly plant at Saint Louis, Mo.
 This announcement will be received with considerable interest throughout the United States by every member of the Buick sales organization, for when these improvements are finished it will enable the Buick factories to increase their daily production sched- ule to T50 finished cars. The build ing program which is already We'll un- der way, includes the erection of nine new buildings and large extensions to three other plants. Construction work upon all of these is being rapidly pushed in an effort to complete them in the earliest possible time.
 Thousands of dollars are being ex- pended in the purchase of new ma chinery and equipment for the pro- posed buildings; likewise for other factories now in operation, which will bring the Flint factories production up to 750 cars; while in addition, the assembly plant at Saint Louis will be equipped to finish 200 cars per day.
 The buildings at Flint to be con structed are as follows:
 New transmission plant, four stories high.
 New enameling building.
 New motor test building. New central power plant for gen erating 6,0O0 K w.. capable of pro ducing half the power necessary to run the entire Buick group of facto- ries.
 New building for the drop forge shop.
 New heat treating building for the motor shop.
 New hardening room for the tool department.
 Big extensions to the new alumni mum foundry.
 An additional story for the garage building on the south side of Ham ilton avenue, making it a three-story structure.
 New pattern shop and pattern stor- age building.
 New gasoline filling station.
 New central oil house building.
 New machinery and equipment nee essary for the production of 750 cars a day.
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 President Bassett, newly elected president of the Buick factories, said lin connection with his report: | Tt is our aim to make the Buick lplant one of the largest. if not the largest, of the automobile producing plants in the world. but to make it ideal from the standpoint of the work CT as well as the management. We are seeking to surround our employees with every safeguard, every conven- fence for their health and comfort, with good light, good air and the most approved sanitation.
 Much of the building work that has been undertaken is with a view to increase our production schedules that have followed the extraordinary demand for the Buick company's prod uct We propose to show our thou sands of employees that we are sin cerely interested to the last detail ia their welfare by making the Buick plant an ideal place to work. Thou sands of them are acquiring stock, through the General Motors plan. and thus are becoming partners in the business. We want to make them partners in every sense of the word. We want them to grow with the plant. to share its prosperity, to set the Buick up as an example of the ideal for factory organization. N