The Lakeland evening telegram. (Lakeland, Fla.) 1911-1922, 1920-01-17
Making Motor Vehicles
In The South

rity we have and our readers may
have, the utmost confidence. He has
surrounded himself with experienced
and capable men who have the capac- !
ity for big business, and we see no
reason why this organization cannot
duplicate in Houston Texas. the phe-
nomenal profits which have been made
elsewhere in the automotive industry.
The first step in the launshing Of
the Association was marked by a mas
ter hand at organization in the plan
Of an associate trusteeship, which
gives the Association a local Advisory
Counsel in every community where
their shares are Soda promoter for
the sale of securities first, and then
for the sale Of the product.
Board Of Engineers and Unit System
Of Building
Mechanic himself, President Blevins
has engaged the service Of only high
class automotive engineers.
Mr.. F. E. Crotto, chief engineer,
is man we'll known in the Automo-
tive World as designer and builder,
not only of successful automotive
products, but of scientific factories as
we'll, and to his engineering skill Ia
due their modern unit system of fac
tory construction.
AS each unit is launched it is
equipped with funds. machinery, ma
terials and men and headed by an
automotive engineer Of unquestioned
ability who is responsible to the par
ent organization for results.
Thus when the tractor unit was
started, Mr.. o. l.. Lewis, formerly
managing engineer of the Moline Uni
versal Tractor Plant at Rock Island,
Ill was put in charge. Mr.. Lewis is
tractor engineer or wide experience,
having headed a corps of seventeen
automotive engineers in the building
Of more than fifteen thousand Moline
Universal Farm Tractors, and having
brought that machine and the plant
for its production to their present
high state of development.
In the same manner the trailer and
body unit was established in charge.
Of men whose long years Of ex1nT
'ence IN those lines have qualified theN,
as experts. IA
The latest addition to their force
is Mr.. d. G. w. Smith, as production
manager, Mr.. Smith has designed
and built number Of the leading
makes Of automobiles and trucks. He
is one of the pioneers in the automc-
tive industry, having begun in 1903
with che Garford Manufacturing Com.
pany, where he laid the foundation
for acareer as Managing Engineer
and Production Executive of such con
Germs as Parish Manufacturing Com
Dany Metzger Motor Car Company.
Tudhope Automobile Company Metal.
wood Manufacturing Company, Hayes
Manufacturing Company, Chalmers
Motor Car Company.
| Returning from overseas. where
Mr.. Smith served with the 3O2d Rat
TALON Tank Corps, he was attracted,
by the promising future of Southern
Motors, and promptly connected with
them, We commend the wisdom of
the Association in securing the serv-
Ices OF such man, who is highly rec
commended by all with whom he has
been associated.
IL Is common thing to meet the
man whose business it is to doctor
SICK factories. Mr., Smiths reputa .
ton has been built upon the idea Of
not only curing ills he has heretofore
found but not letting his factory get
SICK. He came up from the bench
and he brought up with him a bond
OF sympathy between the executive
and the subordinate that makes for
cooperation so earnestly sought INV
Southern Motors.
Cash Buying Policy
IL is one thing to build great fac
tory and quite another to keen II hu;,t
On firm foundation financially. Tn
accordance with their usual consarv.
tlsm they are steering clear of credi,
arrangements which have wrecked so
many business establishments ora
'ney nave therefore adopted the sound
poiiey OF paying cash for what tbev
buy.
Trade Prospects
AS an indication of future cole, :.
ranger products, the State of Texas
purchased for the first half Of 1910
more automobiles than the total num-
Der OF automobiles and trucks sold
IN the state during the entire nrecad-
ing year
In the course of our country's in
dustrial development, while Mich,gan
became the largest producer Of auto
mobiles, Texas became the largest