Arizona republican., 1921-04-03
CADILLAC GOES
 |NTONEWPLANT I

The various departments of the
 Cadillac Motor Car company are
 gradually being moved from the old | plant into the new $7,000,000 factory,
 which is said to be the most modern | automobile plant in the world. Bab- | bitt Brothers are in receipt of ad-
 vices that by July 1 all departments | will be installed in the new factory.
 Once in the new plant visits to the |
 Cadillac Motor Car company will be
 of even greater interest than hereto | fore.
 To go from department to depart | ment is to see sthe extremes followed
 in accuracy and quality. From the | first step in the mechanical con l struction of the car it is test after test. Thousands of tests and meas
 urements are made as the parts move from one department to the other. Nothing is taken for granted. A
 rigid test must be made, and in many | instances the variation of a thou
 sandth part of an inch in measure i ment means the diScarding of a part.
 It is doubtful if there is another au- | tomobile manufacturer in the world 1 who so relig iously adheres to the eX l tremes of accuracy followed in the ! Cadillac plant. The equipment of | special gauges measuring and testing l instruments of the most costly and
 accurate type are employed eontin-
 uously in the upholding of highest | standards.
 There are more than $2O0,00 worth
 of gauges employed daily in the
 building of Cadillac cars These gauges are continuously being l checked and re-checked that the slightest deviation due to wear may be detected. The standard of meas l urement for checking the general ir1 jc ha fa iS1 gauge, of which there are five sets | owned by the Cadillac factory. Four sets are used as master gauges for checking all other gauges in use. One
 set constitutes a reference set, which
 is used only for checking the master
 sets. No tools fixtures or gauges are
 permitted to be put into use in the
 factory until they have passed the
 inspection of the toll and gauge in-
 spection department, where these sets
 of Swedish gauges are kept.
 Scientific heat treatment of mate
 rials used in the car are unquestion-
 ably responsible for the superior
 strength and service qualities for
 which the Cadillac has earned an en- viable reputation. The Brinnell test
 is applied to all materials passing through the heat treating depart ment, so that a uniform degree o1 hardness is constantly maintained. From ore to automobile there are innumerable thousands of tests which go into the manufacture of good motor car. For instance, there are material tests-of woods and metals, l fabrics and finishes, oils and com pounds. There are manufacturing a tests, of organization and methods of l machining and assemblies, of new ideas and principles. Each reveals I efficiency, or exposes the lack of it. 1 Nf f-; t1r to the performance of the finished product The only absolute guarin- tee however, that the finished mech $ anism will be as good as the elements \ which have gone into it is the test a of the machine itself. Cadillac final 3 tests are, in part, tests of Cadillac T materials and manufacture; but above all, they are the proof of Cadii- lac standards of assembly.
 Each Cadillac driving unit, engine transmission and rear axle. before il q becomes a part of the chassis, is 1 given a thorough test in the depart N ment where it is built. Each test i. S designed to give the unit goot E workout under every kind of operat T ing conditions. Each part is watched # and particularly listened to.
 Cadillac testers receive a ibera N education before they are set t & judge the soundness of new auto E mobile. They are men who hav E graduated from many other depart @ ments. They have seen the car in al H phases of manufacture. They hay E at their fingers ends all the ailment M which an automobile is heir to. The H know what a good automobile shoul E be The slightest sound, which IL Fl owner or even the average garage me H chauic wouldn't even notice, mean aM something definite to them