The West Virginian. [volume] (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1914-1974, 1921-05-11
Would Reduce Dead
Weight BY Half and Cut
Costs In Two
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ton costs ID half.
Railroad men are eagerly wait.
ing 70 see what he offers, for Ford
has d way Of solving mechanical
and Organization problems that
have bAttled the wlsest men OF the
generation.
THE trouble with the railroads
is that they are spending far too
much for ,ipkeep," was Ford's dag
nosls Of their disease.
He went out and bought two 10.
o1motiyes. He's tearing them
Apart now In his experimental lab:
ofAtofles At Dearborn, Mich.
He's seeing Just wherein they
are so heavy and cumbersome.
There's too much dead weight
IN the World" he says. Il sec no
reason why a locomotive should be
200 tons in weight instead OF 100
tons.
'sAnd there's no reason why
Weight OF freight and passenger
car should not be halyed."
IN q word, Ford plans to "jttney.
izee the railways.
Lighter engines, cars, roadbeds,
bridges = with correspondingly
lighter costs or operation and UP.
keep-these are his aims. -
II Ford brings these things to
pass II means that railroads will
besbuilt In months instead ofyears.
Freight rates and passenger fares
wiil be cheaper.
Thus every commodity transport:
ed ~ the railroads will be cheaper.
The business OF the country will
heye to be reorganized.
Ford does not propose 10 abolish
the steam engine in favor of the
gas:dfiven railway car. He plans
10 coordinate the two.
. He recently purchased the De.
troll, Toledo and Ironton, 500.
mile railway. That road offers the
material for his experiments.
He has built THE Dearborn" a
ras.driYen passenger coach: It's a
street car without a trolley.
Weighing half as much as the or
binary electric car, 1t holds the
rails while rounding a curve at 60
milessah hour. The total weight II
the car iB IL "a tons.
Ford believes the gas.driYen cars,
should be used for passenger, ser
!. vice long and short runs. Steam.
profelled trains would be used for
fretght.
tfzthc scores Of long transconti.
mental passenger trains were re.
placed With individual cars 1t
would mean ten.mitlute. apart
schedule between New York and
sun Francisco.
Industrial Emperor! That's what
they call Henry Ford IN Europe,
aud many In this country look upon
him in the same light.
Twenty years ago he had moth.
ing 9t this worlds goods To-day
Heeowns tho largest factory in
the world.
He IL the only individual In the
wosldAto own a real railroad.
He owns the most thoroughly
equipped hospital In the world; It
isSalso one Of the largest
He had orders for 100000 cars in
kpFil. The monthly maximum out.
nut is 10000. This means
He5has put his industry back TO
tiormal before any other man in
hGynnuntry
Hehas done more than any other
Individual II, the world to relieve
unemployment and business stss'
nation.
fIeswill pay bonus OF one days
WAGES every two weeks, beginning
May 1s.
lie has reclaimed thousands OF
cohyicts and other 'down'and.out.
He founded the Ford Institute Of
Technology Tor the training Of tech.
meal experts.
He founded boys trade school.
He owns an S,0o0.acre farm on
which there is neither COW nor
horse.
He publishes a weekly paper, the
Y Dearborn Independent.
He is erecting a $500, 900 plant
at Troy, N. Y, to mako farm trac'
tors.
He's miller, grocer, butcher, dry
hoods merchant, legal adviser,
teacher and doctor for $4,000 in his
employ.
Ferd's mile.lons factory at River
Rouge, Mich, is the greatest man
itacturing plant in the world. 1t Is
the central unit OF the most self
sufficient industry In the world.
Ford ships and Ford trains, tray
cling on Ford tracks, bring in tim
Der from Ford forests, coal from
Ford pits, iron ore from Ford mineI
ana sand from Ford deposits.
He ID dredging q slip beside th'
River Rouge factory preparatory t
the opening Of the proposed lakes
to.sea water route. Then sea.golnl
Ford liners will carry his auto
and tractors to Europe
Ford IS already manufacturing
from his own. raw materials, steel
iron, artificial leather, glass, paint
chemicals, wooden parts and fuel
within 4 few weeks be will add L
this list cellul6id. rubber tires
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