New Britain herald., 1924-01-02
FORD COMPANIES
 EXTENSION PLANS
Will E1psnd Nearly i50 Million
 This Year

Detroit, Jan. 2-ExfenSiye improve ments of waterways looking to the de- velopment of an all-water route from Green Island, N. Y., to Detroit; com pletion of plant started at St Paul, Minn.; an addition to the Kansas City assembly plant, and extension of business throughout the South and West, are among the items named in a statement by the Ford Motor com pany in it's expansion program for 1924. announced here yesterday. An official of the company, close to Mir. Ford, was authority for the asser- ton, that the statement covered im- provements which would call for an expenditure of from $1to,ooo.ooo to sI50, 100000 during the year.
 Regarding other extensions which will be made by the company, the statement says: "Plans have been completed and construction is 10 be begun early in the year on new assembly plant at Philadelphia.
 About February 1. production is to be begun at the New Hegewitch plant at Chicago, where, in addition to the assembly of 600 cars and trucks per day, all closed car bodies required in the Chicago district will be manu- factured.
 West Coast Well Prepared.
 ''The west coast is regarded as es- reciaily we'll prepared to handle the large volume of business expected to 1924 as a result of additions made to the Los Angeles assembly and mann- featuring plant during the past year.
 The Ford expansion program for the south Is reflected in the conpler ton in 1928 of the new assembly and body plant at New Orleans and an addition to the Atlanta, Ga, plant. Other extensions are contemplated for the south during 1924.
 An addition will be built to the Kansas City assembly plant increas- ing its floor space iss.ooo square feet, and a new sales and service branch at Salt Lake city, on which construction has begun, will be completed in April"
 The increase in production of by- products from the Ford plants Is also covered in the statement. In this connection 1t is announced that new coke ovens, now under construction nt the River Rouge plant here, in which coke and its by-products will be manufactured at low tempera- ture process. will be put into opera tion.
 Cement Plant.
 There will also be put into opera tion at the River Rouge plant, it is asserted, a cement plant which will make 1000 barrels of cement daily from blast furnace slsg. This ce- nent will be used in the building operations of the company.
 At the Highland park plant of the company here, it is planned to ex- tend manufacturing units and in- crease railroad facilities. 4-.. .s
 A new body factory and wood dis tillation plant will be put into opera tion early in the year at Iron Moun- tain, Mich. Here the timber will he finished for automobile bodies and in addition, wood alcohol, wood tar, gas, oil, and charcoal will be manufactur- l cd from the pieces too small for use in automobile body manufacture.
 Increased production is also fore. cast for tho compsny's plant at Flat 1 Rock, Mich, which manufacturers | aumobile lamps. The Ford wheel plant at Hamilton. O., the statement says, will be increased to keep it | abreast of growing requirements"
 Waterway Development
 In regard to the proposed all- water route from Green Island, N. r., 10 Detroit, the statement says:
 Buildings for the new Ford plant ] at Green Island, N. T.. arc now com pleted and production of gears, ra- dlators and other parts. begun last 1 year, will be expanded as additional machinery is installed. Extensive i'm. provement and development Of water ways in the Green Island district is also under way, looking 10 an all. i water route to Detroit"