Evening star., 1936-10-18

gossip is correct. according to the
North American Newspaper Alliance.
Reports have been current for sew
eral months that Ford was getting
ready to make his own tires. As
step in this direction. according to
information in automobile circles. the
Ford Co. has obtained estimates from
equipment makers on approximately
s10,000,000 worth OF machinery for
building tires and tubes.
On the basis of an annual output OF
1000, 900 Fords, equipment would be
needed to build 5000, 900 tires. One re-
port says that specifications given
to manufacturers called for machinery
suficient to produce $4,000 tires a
day on q basis of three eight-hour
shifts.
Whether Ford would be able to OBJ
tain delivery of such machinery IN
the near future is questioned here.
The tire industry as whole has been
placing heavy demands on the equip
ment manufacturers as a sequel to
the efforts to establish plants away
from Akron.
Some authorities are inclined to see
the hand of Firestone in the Ford
plans. since tire designers are said
to have been imported from the
Firestone Tire and Rubber Co.
With plants getting well underway
on 1897 production Of new passenger
cars and continuing their truck oper-
ations at a good pace, the output in
the United States and Canada this
week Is estimated at 34.805 units as
against a revised estimate Of 34.027
for the week ended October 10, ac-
cording to the midweek summary
of activities published in Automotive
Daily News.
On this basis, says A. D. NJ. the pro-
duction for october is likely to run
in the neighborhood Of 100000 units
as compared with 283,337 in the same
month year ago. This estimate, how
ever, is purely tentative due to uncer-
tainty regarding Ford and the possi-
bility of some OF the other heavy pro-
ducers stepping up before the end OF
the month. Then. too. it should be
considered that while the october out
put may fall below the same month
last year, September this year was so
far ahead of 95,127 units produced in
September 1885, that this years lead
over 1885 will not be seriously dimin-
ished.
It Is understood that Plymouth
worked at top speed TO supply dealers
last week and this week started q
little slower. Plymouth is expected to
be hitting top speed again by the close
of the week, which should mean a rate
of about 1000 units a day. eChevrolet
has not begun its 1887 model produc-
ton and except for few jobs that
have been shown to dealers, the pro-
duction line has not started. Other
parts Of the plant, however, are un-
derstood to be running, getting every
thing ready for a heavy schedule set
has not started production on the new
jobs, but it is expected the line at
the Rouge will be going pretty strong
before very long.
Dodge is running steady at about
1000 units week. Oldsmobile is to
start production October II. Pom
tiac is running along at an estimated
5000 jobs a week and Buick is prob
ably turning out about $500 a week.
Hudson and Terraplane account for
about 2,500 units this week and Stude-
baker is estimated at 2.750. Packard,
with an increasing bank of untitled or
ders on hand, is turning out about
5000 jobs a week and has scheduled
an increase in output this month.
Chrysler has been running at good
clip and is expected to boost produc-
ton before long. For the last two
weeks it has averaged about 900 units
a week. Nash-Lafayette account for
$50 of this weeks total and De Soto,
in its new plant, has q stride of about
1000 a week. Graham Is lining up
production in its remodeled plant and
is hitting about $50 jobs this week, no
great change from last. Cadillac is
just now getting into the swing and
will turn out an estimated 800 Jobs.
REQ will add about 1876 or so and
companies, including
truck makers and others, who are
gradually feeding their lines, will ac-
count for about 1000 units.
Reports on September registration
indicate that the month will show
total of 100000 new passenger cars
when all figures are available and
commercial cars will set a new ALL
time high record for the month. with
the total in the neghborhood of $4,000
units,