The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1927-10-26
LOCAL DEALER VISITS
BUICK FACTORY AT FLINT

o. S. lines of the Pugh-Imes Buick
Company, Buick dealers, has just re-
turned from Flint, Mich, where he
spent two days as guest of the Buick
Motor Company. Buick is entertain
ing the majority of its $500 dealers
at the factory and the famous Gen
eral Motors Proving Ground this
fall, at the rate of about $50 week.
Mr.. lines made the trip in a spec
ial Pullman train, along with the 9TH
err dealers in the Minneapolis Buick
branch territory. The dealers reach
ed Flint early Monday morning, their
train pulling onto a siding near the
Buick factory. The party, numbering
about 125 men, was met by Buick
executives, divided into groups of a
dozen or so each, provided with
guides, and started at once on an in
spection tour through the plants.
Except for luncheon, which was
served at the Hotel Durant, the tour
occupied the entire day. The lunch
con was attended by E. T. Strong
president of the Buick Motor Com
pany, C. w. Churchill, general sales
manager, and other Buick executives.
who addressed the visiting dealers on
various sales and service problems,
and congratulated the dealers for
their part in making this by far the
greatest of all Buick years.
The next day the dealers landed
at the Proving Ground, which lies a
few miles from the nearby town of
Milford. Here. they were shown the
testing through which Buick goes con-
stantly, to, safeguard its position of
quality leadership. After a day
crammed with incident, they left for
home.
Its hard to say which was more
amazing, the factory or the Proving
Ground" said Mr.. lines. Each was
a wonderful experience and a genuine
treat. The day at the factory brought
home the marvellous efficiency of
Buick manufacture and explained how
it is that Buick can offer such start
ling values. We saw the conscient-
ious care that goes into the making
of every Buick car-the relentless
tests which insure, that every one is
right when it goes out-and we gain
ed some conception of the enormous
resources this policy has enabled
Buick to develop.
81 was especially impressed at the
way machinery has taken the place
of man power, whose work it does
more quickly and more accurately
than men. Movement of parts, in
their transformation from raw ma
terial into finished cars, is taken care
of by a system of conveyors of mar
velous ingenuity, each designed per-
fectly for its own particular job.
They run from operation to opera
ton. and from plant to plant, IN
what seems like a hopeless maze; yet
their movement is perfectly coordin-
ated, and their combined effort is eff
ficiency itself.
For all its machinery, Buick en-
ployes almost 10000 workers. Its
factory is nearly two miles long and
several blocks wide; it has its own
fire and police department, its own
water and telephone systems-in
short, it is good-sized city in it.
self.
1--WE were delighted to see the
Proving Ground, because we had
heard so much about it. The visit
set US straight on one point: the
Proving Ground was not established
to set stamp of approval on Cen
eral Motors cars-to prove them good,
as rumor sometimes ms it-but to
put those cars through the most rig
id tests, in comparison with all other
cars made, so they may perform with
the BIT at all times.
"The demonstration of Buick road
sters upon the speed loop was amaz-
ing. l did not know before an auto
mobile could go so fast.
Il think all the dealers in the ter
ritory felt that the visit was the ex-
perience of lifetime. For myself,
the visit to the plant and the Proving
ground, and our contact with Buick S
builders, made me mighty proud of
my connection with Buick 1t put a
real significance in the slogan, When
Better Automobiles are Built. Buick
Win Build Them We've got inside
information, now, that Buick doesn't