Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-05-31

His successor. Charles +. Will
son, is equally practical minded.
equally devoted to business,
equally intent upon enhancing
Americas might militarily, in
dustrially and internationally.
When I quizzed him about
what General Motors is doing
for the country, he started
enumerating so many facts and
figures, rapid-fire. that ! threw
up my hands. As far as my
limited mentality could grasp.
here are some of the many
things General Motors is doing
for your protection and mine:
More than one-third of all
Cadillac's thousands of workers
are engaged on national defense.
Many months ago they started
making parts for the invaluable
Allison aircraft engines. In ad-
dition, they are now working at
top speed TO supply vital parts
for marine engine.
President Wilson confides that
the company is months ahead Of
schedule in production of its
SCI 100000 machine gun order,
air cooled mechanisms which can
fire as high as 1.4o0 rounds a
minute. Presently four GIN
plants in Michigan. Ohio and
New York will employ 10000
workers. mostly trained by the
corporation
This is over my head: When
the Saginaw plant is operating
at full production, it will con-
tain 100 different milling ma
chimes. lathes. grinders. ETC.. on
which 1900 separate machine
operations will be performed per
gun. The .30-caliber machine
guns have 189 parts. some Of
which require as many as so dis
tinct machine operations.
More than 1000 United States
Army officers will be trained by
Chevrolet in the repair and
maintenance of the swarm of
army trucks pouring forth since
last Fall.
Thousands of ChevroIets-
known to army men as "4x4's",
which means four-wheel drive
designed especially for the
United States Army. are already
on the job and thousands more
on their way to meet national
defense needs.
GINS Oldsmobile forge plant is
working overtime to produce
IS nm. and los nm. shells.
Oldsmobile likewise is preparing
to go production on a govern
ment order for 20 nm. machine
guns, called automatic cannon,
as also is the Pontiac division,
although part of the latter's or
der for another type Of nm. gun
will be subcontracted.
We have had il drummed into
US lately that our production of
airplane engines is all-important.
The Allison division of GIN is
. steadily approaching its goal OF
1000 liquid cooled airplane en-
gines a month. which will re-
quire employment of $1,000 men.
Buick has been commissioned
10 construct a plant near Chi
cago to turn out 500 Pratt and
Whitney radial. air cooled air.
plane engines monthly.
Fisher Body plants are ever
ishly striving TO supply parts
and subassemblies for 100 twin
engine North American bomb
ers" a month-putting 12,""" to
work.
The enlarged plant at the
Cleveland Diesel engine division
is busy on propulsion and auxil-
larry engines for naval use. Die
sci units for other defense uses
are coming from the Detroit
Diesel engine division.
Various GIN plants are also
furnishing the government with
fire control equipment, landing
gears. electrical equipment. tank
gun mounts, as well as dies for
other suppliers. magnetos, mo-
tors and many other items
Washington doesn't want to
reveal.
President Wilson states:
by the time we are running
I'm hig on our defense orders,
we expect to require q trained
manufacturing personnel Of
more than $4,000 workers.
Training Of such workers IL be-
ing carried on In upwards Of 40
OF the corporations plants"
The guiding motto. motive OF
GM executives, from chairman
A. p. Sloan Jr., down. is de-
tense first"
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