The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-09-05

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 Southern Motors today mas approxI- mately S300Q000 in realty, buildings, ma chinery and other valuable assets. It has over 100.000 feet of floor space under roof and soon is to have more.
 Its factories and assembling plants, al- ready in operation, have been consJruc-- ed one by one as the business expanded, so that every inch of factory space, now controlled by the organization, IS occupied and earning money.
 Southesn Motors. has in operation on it's permanent plant site on the i:oa,.on snip channel 3 permanent motor truck unit, permanent tractor unit and permanent power plant The sawtooth truck assembling plant containing 4S,009 square feet of floor space is modern factory. that will compare favorably with Cleveland
 The truck plant is surrounded by, group comprising a paint shop, forge shop, power house and tractor assembling plant, which together have q total floor space Of over 5000 square feet.
 Approximately I.0oo,o00 worth of ma chinery boilers. tanks, engines, pumps, etc, already have been installed on the permanent plant site.
 TWO MORE UNITS
 Only recently on the permanent site, ground was broken for two additional units. one to be Southern Motors ware house No. 1 and the other to be the per- manent home of the Ranger passenger cars. These two new structures will add approximately 10,oQ0 square feet of manu. featuring space under roof.
 Tn Houston itself Southern Motors is operating a temporary trailer unit. temporary commercial body unit. and a service unit. There is floor space total- ing 17,000 square feet under roof at the trailer works alone.
 Southern Motors is maintaining general offices in the Battv building at Houston occupying two floors of that structure hut has purchased a desirable property new occupied by the parsonage of the | First Presbyterian Church of Houston, and located in the heart of Houston S business district on which is to he erected building to house the association's city Show rooms and offices.
 ! Southern Moaors recently purchased fifty acres adjoining it's permanens p-anr site with view to it's development rela- tive to a permanent housing psan for it's employees This plan at present is in a formative stage, but will be carried out.
 EXPERIENCED MEN The mechanical operation of the Ranger i factories and properties is in the -ands of the Ranger board of engineers, consist ing of general production manager, chief engineer, an engineer of the Ranger truck department, an engineer of the Ranger tractor department and super | intendent and manager of the Ranger trailer and commercial body works These positions are held by men of wide ex- perience in automotiye affairs, who pre- viousIy have been associated With some of the best known of the automotive man. ufacturing concerns of the country. 1 The assocatiorls business admin istFa- tion is conducted under the supervision of a board of trustees, consisting of Jacques r. Blevins, president; Dave D. Calm, vice president; C. E. Shively treasurer H. F. Gordon and E. Fl. FTili All funds received and disbursed are vouched for by bond ed 6mployes and the treasurer himself is a member of the board of trustees. 1 Southern Motors has q wel-organized staff of statesmen throughout the fourteen states of the south, distributing Ranger automotive products, and ''Southern Mo tors'' and Ranger are becoming synony- nous with automotive progress in the southland.