, 1925-01-06

INDUSTRY
Carried Out
In Many Branches
For Big Year.

DETROIT. Mich. Jan. 6.-The ex.
pansion program carried out by the
Ford Motor company during the
year Just ended. a year in which
business conditions have been more
or less unsettled. reflects not only
the company's- own faith in the fu.
ture oS|the automobile industry, but
W. an optimistic outlook generally.
has built new manufacturing
PTS. new assembly plants and a
hmmoth engineering laboratory,
)th here and there a few finishing
lches remaining. 1t has carried
/ extensive development of hydro.
ectric power and has put into
rvice its W feet OF boats. In
fery respect, the company enters
o New Year better equipped than
Ter for the production and dis.
button of motor cars.
Nm Industrial buildings tho COM.
my has added 5000 900 square feet
floor space. This Is an increase
moro than rs per cent during
be year, and gives It a total of
Sore than 10000, 900 square feet of
Dor space. or slightly more than
o acres under roof. In which to
krry on its program OF mass pro-
1nction.
Most of the additional space was
5dded by new assembly and manu-
hcturing buildings and additions
Completed during the year at ten
X tho company's branch properties.
chief among these was the Twin
cities manufacturing and assembly
plant at St. Paul which, like the
hew Chicago plant, will have an
assembly capacity of 500 cars and
a day..
New plants were erected at Mem
phis. Charlotte. jacksonville. Dallas
and Louisville, tho production capa.
city of the Kansas City plant was
doubled, an addition was made to
the Oklahoma City branch to per-
nit the building OF bodies. a new
sSes and service building was COM
pletca>at Salt Lake City. and a new
was established and as
plant constructed at Norfolk,
va.
Development in northern Michigan.
where the company's iron ore mines
Ind numbering activities are carried
bn. included erection at Iron Noun
lain OF the largest wood distillation
plant for the production of valuable
The expansion program at the
River Rouge plant hear Detroit has
gone forward and adds
Zoo. 900 square feet OF floor space
In new buildings and additions. the
plant at Hamilton, Ohio. has been
enlarged and improvements have
been made in the company's coal
mines in Kentucky and West Vir-
yinia by the. installation OF new
Power development dur
Ing the year also vas a big feature
This included completion Of the
great hydro-e1ectric plant at st. Paul
and a similar but smaller unit at
rron Mountain. Mich, which to-
added "a 900 horse power to
The e1sfpany-s hydro-electric genera
~ equipment. Plans also were
for a smaller unit OF the
same kind at Ypsilanti, Mich.
with the launching early in the
year OF the Henry Ford II and the
Benson Ford. giant motorship
and the acquisition OF the
steamers Oneida and Onondaga. the
company inaugurated its own water
transportation on the Great Lakes.
After utilizing the boats during the
summer and fall months in trans
porting iron ore and lumber from
the north to the River Rouge plant,
The onondaga and the Oneida we're
transferred to socean service, carry
ing manufactured automobile parts
10 South America and domestic
branches along the Atlantic coast
The expansion program was not
tonfned TO the United States alone.
but extended during the year to for
fign countries as well, where IN
breasing business demanded better
facilities. A new branch was estabr
lished at Santiago. Chile, an addi'
ZION made to the plant at Sac Paulo,
Brazil, a new branch was opened at
Rotterdam. Holland. another at
6tockholm. Sweden, and a plant re
fently completed at Copenhagen.
Denmark. has an assembly capacity
cars and trucks a day. In
all. h.Spt 2so, 900 square feet of floor
space was added 10 foreign plants
curing the last year.
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