Pocahontas star herald., 1923-07-13

crates It's own blast furnaces, machine
shops, body plant, saw mill, coke
ovens, cement plant, paper mill, power
plant locomotive repair shops and the
Fordson Tractor plant.
The parent plant of the company in
Highland Park occupies nearly 800
acres of which 123 are under roof
Here are the general offices, the De
troit sales branch, the boys industrial
school and the worlds greatest indir
vdual automobile plant
The company has glass plant at
Glassmere, Pa, another at Highland
Park and a third is under cOnstruc-
tion at River Rouge.
There also are manufacturing units
at Hamilton, Ohio, Worthwhile, Mich,
Troy, n. Y, Iron Mountain, Mich, and
several points in and near Detroit.
A 81 100000 building under con-
struction at Dearborn, Mich, will pro-
vide new home for the Ford Engi-
neering Laboratory. 1t also will
house the plant of the Dearborn Pub
fishing Company, publishers of the
Dearborn Independent, the Ford In
ternational Weekly.
There are thirty-fOur branches Of
the Ford Motor Company in the UNI
ted States, of which twenty-eight are
assembling plants. These have all
been improved or enlarged within the
last year and today are producing
cars and trucks at the rate of 6,700
every eight hour working day.
There are more than 5000 Ford
dealers in the country and over 49,
600 authorized Ford Service Stations,
making total of more than 24,000
points of contact with the motoring
public.
Foreign branches and associated
companies are located at Buenes
Aires, Sau Paulo and Montivedie,
South America; Havana, Cuba; Cop
enhagen, Denmark; Antwerp, Belgi-
UNI; Manchester, England; Barcelona,
Spain; Bordeaux, France and Trieste,
| Italy. There also is a manufacturing
plant at Cork, Ireland.
The Ford Motor Company of Cana
da, Limited, located at Ford, ontario,
just across the river from Detroit, has
an unusual output of $4,000 Ford Cars
and Trucks and does business not only
in Canada but in the British reserva-
tions.
The Fordson Tractor was bought
out in 1917, during which year 254
were produced. II was developed af-
ter years Of work and experiment by
Henry Ford and his engineers and
presents a most sturdy and depend
able power plant, easy and economical
in operation. Like other Ford pro
duets, il met with almost instant sue
cess andat present the Fordson plant
at River Rouge is producing Tractors
at the rate of 800 per day to keep pace
with the growing demand.
The Lincoln Motor Company, organ.
lied N 1917 to produce motor cars of
exceptionally high quality, was ac'
quired by the Ford Motor Company at
a receivers sale February 4th, 1922,
for $4,000. 900 and only recently Henry
Ford paid to the creditors of the Com
pany an additional S4,000,000 to make
up their losses, though under no obi.
cation to do so.
The Lincoln Motor Company was re-
organized under the laws of Michi-
gan on March Doth, 1922. for an au
thorized capitalization of $l5,000000
II is now known as a division of the
Ford Motor Company and has an un
usual capacity of 10,500 motor cars
Not only is the Ford Motor Company
the greatest automobile manufacturing
institution in the world today, but IL
stands alone, stupenduOus industrial
marvel, into every activity Of which
there permeates the personality and
genius of its founder and guiding
spirit, Henry Ford.