The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-04-04

again. AIverSon has joined the forces Of the CreeI Motor Company and K busy selling the ear which he handled for several years. Greet has the Oakland and Nclie.
 
 Julian Webb of the Birmingham Auto Top Company is busy man these days. The spring rains have de- veloped many leaks in the tops of automobiles and as a result everybody wants their machine placed under waterproof roof as soon as possible. The Birmingham Auto Top Company is also making a speciality of handling wrecked cars now, giving great deal e attention to repairing bodies.
 
 The Holt Accessories Company, with offices in the Woodward Building, are making great suc- cess with the Edison EcOmeter. This device works in conjunction with the carburetor and is said to he a splendid invention for the saving of gas. The HoIts report that many business houses are using the EcOmeter with great success. This company has the exclusive sales rights for this ter ritory now and is making plans whereby they will get the state rights for Alabama, Mississippi, IT fOTEO6s oCOl SAst dHU AChhOSSt's
 
 The Motor Sales Corporation un- loaded a carload of Stearns cars the other day. The allotment included three- passenger roadster, five-pas senger touring car and two seyen-pas senger touring cars. They are sold out of Chalmers cars with the excep- ton of two ven-passenger touring cars, but expect a shipment of car load of passenger touring Chal- mers on Monday or Tuesday. All of these cars are sold with the exception of one.
 Earl Ford is making quite stay of it in the north The Cruse Crawford expert has been out of the city for more than week now. The chances are that he will rethrn soon with tot of information about what is trans piring in northlanS automobile circles Don Drennen of the Birmingham Motor Company has just returned from 1aetroit, where he visited the Buick and Federal factories.
 Mr. Drennen saw a great deal thas interested him at the Buick factory which is now turnig out 800 cars per day.
 There isn't single unit of the car that takes backward step in the Buick factory" said Mr Drennen yes terday. Each piece, as it progresses in manufacture, continually moves for ward Nothing is ever doubled back over it's own track at any stage.
 "Thc thing that impressed me most, however, was the perfect ac- curacy i'm the making of piStons. Each and every piston is weighed, and if it does not come mp to the requirements by even the smallest margin it is not used. Pistons Of the same size count for nothing. They must be not only of the same size but of the same weight to the fraction of ounce. Things are humming there, too. They are turning out 800 Bucks every day They have store room which houses 1000 ears, two days output. Each is kept in this room for two days, where it is washed with cold water several times each day. This is done SO that the finish will be perfectly dry and hard before the car leaves the factory.
 At the Federal factory things are moving rapidly, but at the same time the sales manager told me that if they didn't receive another order for six luonths they would have enough on hand to keep the factory going full blast.
 "We are going to get Bucks and Tederals at rather rapid rate and we may be able to catch up with our or ders in the near future. How soon that will be I cannot say. We can't possibly get enough cars to supply the demand his summer so the chances gre that we will be somewhat behind fer a year.
 Fallon O'Bvrne, president of the Dixie Auto Sales Company has just retttNe fl om a visit to the factory, the Kentucky Wagon Manufacturing Company at Louisville, Ky. MT. O'Byrne states that the "Old Hickory" people have gotten into big time production now and that he has been promised regular shipments of Dixie Flyers. Freight conditions con- tinue to worry MT O'Byrne, however but if it comes to driving the cars through, that can be done especially since Louis vile is not as far removed from Bir- Fnuuzzsa