Evening star., 1940-10-20
Suitable Label for
1941 Automobiles
Product Of 48 States
Contributions Made
To Manufacture
Are Nation Wide

"Product Of the 48 States" would
be an appropriate label for each OF
the 1941 automobiles which make
their formal bow to the public at
the Automobile Show. Citizens of
every State in the union have di-
rectly or indirectly contributed to
their production.
The capital of the automobile
manufacturing world is represented
In the great industrial zones Of the
North Central States. But many
new cars are assembled. bodies are
built, In widespread sections of the
country.
$1,000 Parts.
Each car contains some $1,000
parts. which are fabricated and pro-
duced in a national variety Of lOCa-
tions. And into the making Of a
motor car go materials drawn from
mines. farm acres and pastures of
virtually every zone in the Nation.
Spread a map Of the United
States. close your eyes and select a
spot at random. You might find
your finger resting on Atlanta, Ga.
Automobile companies support week
ly pay rolls amounting TO many
thousands of dollars in that South
land center. Two companies main
tain car assembly plants in Atlanta,
another builds bodies and fourth
operates parts depot.
Choose again. Los Angeles. But
Los Angeles is also proud of the
name it bears as leading national
center of secondary automobile as
Sembly The motor industry en-
ploys 5000 people in the Far-West-
ern metropolis. according to the Los
Angeles County Chamber of Com
merce. Wages and salaries of these
Southern California autOmotive
workers exceed s7,0OO,0O0 annually.
In the San Francisco area two as
senbly plants and a body plant op-
crate and a dozen firms are listed
as suppllers of various autOmotlye
equipment.
Far across the continent in New
England the products of many man
ufacturers are destined to roll on
automobile assembly lines Boston,
Lynn, Worcester, MlddletOWn, New
Haven, Norwalk-these are among
the cities that supply the motorcar
makers with essential parts and sup
plies. In Worcester, for example.
one out of every eight industrial en-
ployes may be broadly defined as an
automobile worker.
Niagara Falls Production.
Niagara Falls is the noted feature
Of the Buffalo area, but also boasts
numerous suppliers OF the automo-
bile industry. The windshield wiper
on your car quite possibly originated
in a Buffalo accessory plant. And
from the factories of Buffalo come
thousands of rear-yieW mirrors, car
radios, mufflers, batteries and tool
Kits
The automobile industry abSorbs
nefourth Of the Niagara areas
steel production. providing s7O96,500
annually in pay rolls for 1896
workers.
Automobile makers are the leading
customers of steel and iron plants.
Steel and iron produced and proc
essed in Pittsburgh, Bethlehem,
youngstown and Gary are made into
automobile tenders, tops and bodies.
An increasing amount of metal from
Birmingham (AlaD mines is finding
Its way into automobile plants.
Look where you will on the map,
the motor industry touches the lives
Of people in every State. In Mon
tana. copper mines provide live
lihood for thousands of people. The
industry consumed 10000 tons of
copper in 1899. And over the broad
plains Of Texas Craze multitude
Of VoOl-producing sheep. The in
duStry purchased 45120000 yards of
upholstery cloth in 1899, much OF
which was fabricated from wool.
Southern Cotton.
That farm family in Mississippi,
motoring 10 town to see a movie or
attend church, bought its car with
portion of its cotton crop earnings.
The industry annually uses 10 per
cent of all United States cotton
baled-734,147 bales in 1899
Eighty per cent of all rubber mill
production in the United States goes
into the making of a motorcar.
Ohio. California and Alabama are
Included in States listing large tire
manufacturing companies.
Lumber from Arkansas, glass from
PENNSYLVANIA. leather from New Jer-
sey: minerals, metal ores, turpen-
tine, wood, glycerin, zinc, rubber
and variety Of products from every
State-these are the materials that
the genius Of the motor industry
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