The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1923-12-04
AUTO INDUSTRY
T0KEEPPACE
TnL 1924
Output Of 4 .Ooo. 900 Cars FOL
Year, Figures Show, win
Be Reached.
BY MARSHALL B. WALKER,
Cosmopolitan News Service.

CO8m0pD1ABOm NEWS SeRVlCee
DETROIT, Mich, Dec. Auto
mobile manufacturers this week
swung into December with every
prospect Of keeping their plants
tuned up to high production for the
remainder Of the year and ending
1928 with total output near the
1000 900 predicted some weeks ago.
Conditions which have existed for
the first eleven months are expected
to prevail until the year Is gone, and
although there are some plants
which win work under reduced
schedules, others win continue prac-
ftcally at the same rate as IN Mo-
vemler.
Official figures for November have
not been announced, but conserve
tive estimates place the months pro-
ductiOn at approximately $50, 600,
compared with 2s7 900 during the
corresponding month last year and
365,OOO in October. 1t Is possible
that the official report win bring
the total much nearer the October
figure.
SDAAAM& O6CW G11NOs
Dealers are centering efforts on
the sale 81 used cars to clarity the
financial situation and make space
III exhibition rooms and warehouses;
for storing new cars ready for what
every one feels certain win be the
best spring business auto manufac-
tl1rers ever have experienced.
Automobile men learned q lesson
last spring which has made lasting
impression and where possible they
are going to lay aside supplies to
aid il carrying them through an
other period Of tremendous demand,
which may follow the opening Of
spring trade after the national auto
mobile shows III the larger cities Of
the country II January, February
and March.
wild RunlOrs AfIOat.
There are 80 many runors afloat
concerning what win be done along
individual lines that ii would be i'm.
possible to list them and some would
be 50 wild as to be almost humorous
were they to be put ii print The
most that can be said IS that pro.
duction win be high, factories VIII
make extensive expansions and many
new six-cyIinder cars undoubtedly
will be introduced early next year.
Reports just issued show that
there are II, 000. 900 motor vehicles In
operation in the world and $4,000. 600
lin the United States. Production
one-fourth Of this number.
Z fsfsran $50 CkAkn~s IA
partment OF Commerce and Ford
Motor Company figures show thai
| the Ford company during the frs
| ten months Of 1929 made 40 per cent
OF the 1896, 638 passenger cars aIlt
trucks manufactured III the United
| States. Sixty-tWo per cent OF thu
trucks were made by Ford. Fort
and General Motors together bull
more than Is per cent Of the carr
made during October, Ford having
put out 81 per cent.
Ford 70 Increase Men.
Reports are current that FORK
soon viii add 5000 more men To HI:
payroll at the Highland Park plant
giving him still greater production.
Paige-JeWett, even with three
1 day shutdown last week for inven
II VI
| ton over that Of November, 1922
The company expects to build IS ,O0l
i Jewetts next year, as compared with
\ SO 900 this year, and 10000 to Sc, O0l
4 Paiges, as compared with IL, 900 tl1il
year. Paige has just increased III
kconmon stock from $4,0OO,000 Il
| So, O00, 900.
Franklin shipments for November
| reports just issued show, exceed tn,
total for the entire years Of 1921 ami
1922.
Odds output was $500 in Novem
Der and the company has just talkel
i on 1000 new employees.
! Mcfarland Motor Corporation
/ Connersville, Ind, has announced ;
j new light six-cylinder car, giving thi
company fifteen models.
REQ reports just issued for TIL,
| fiscal year show profits OF 81, sos, Al;
after Federal taxes.
The International Harvester Com
i pany has taken lease on propert,
in Detroit and will invade the loca
/ field in the truck and tractor line.
Motor Wheel Corporation toda!
declared cash dividend of pc
4 <lor1k the cnvrNv11Ov1 cfn01y Nyn ~