THE SUXlSAT OREGOXIAX, PORTLAND, JANUARY 17, 1915.
FORD FACTORY PRESENTS UNIQUE FEATURES
- IN TURNING OUT THOUSANDS OF MACHINES
Cleanliness Put to Front First and Foremost, Despite Constant Accumulation of Car Axles, Which, at All Times, Are Piled High in Factory Ex-
pense of Operation Another Revelation to Auto Men. '
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All non-skid guaranteed 3000 miles
28x3 ...S 8.00
30x3 9.00
30x3 Vi .$12.00
31x3 $ ..
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34x3 ...
.$12.50
.$13.25
.813.75
31x4 $15.50
32x4 $16.00
33x4 ...$18.00
34x4 $18.00
35x4 $18.50
36x4 $18.50
34x4 y2 $21.00
uto Supplies at Reduced Prices
New guaranteed Spark Plugs, each 25
Columbia Dry Cells, each 20
Everready Dry Cells, each 20
Tail Lights, regular price $3.50, our price $2.00
$3.50 and $4.00 Gloves at, per pair $1.50
" And 20,000 Other Bargains
We have a large stock of parts for 15 different inakes of cars at about one
half price. See us for anything pertaining to Automobiles. We have a rep
utation of being the lowest-price Auto Supply House on the Pacific Coast
Tires Vulcanized at Reduced Prices
For several weeks we have been installing new machinery and equipment in our
tire factory, so that we may turn out first-class work for less money. Now that our
plant is complete we have cut the price of Vulcanizing 35 per cent
With our new, up-to-date equipment to work with, this still leaves us a good mar
gin of profit. All our work is absolutely guaranteed.
. We Manufacture Tires -j- That Is Why We Know How to Repair Them.
Pacific Tire & Supply Co., inc.
G. N. Smith, Manager,
325-327 BURNSIDE STREET
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36x5 $24.00
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.ORTLAND'S branch of the Ford
Motor Car Company, over in East
Portland, has been In operation
more than a year, and In the last period
of 12 months has turned onto the roads
of Oregon nearly 4000 automobiles.
" Tt would seem that the building,
, painting- and assembling of that many-
cars would have changed the new ap
pearance of the factory, but it has not.
It was the appearance which first
appealed to the Portland people ' to
whom a peep inside was given. Were
it not for the stacks of wheels, axles,
chasses Aid such things, the visitor
could easily imagine himself inside a
big hospital or a biscuit factory or
some other plant which demands abso
lute oleanllness.
Order Typical of Sratem.
The cleanliness and order are typN
eal of the Ford system, and F. B. Nor
man, who is in charge of the Portland
plant, has kept pace with the factory
system in every detail, and probably
gone it one better in some of them.
The cleanliness is everywhere appar
ent, from the clothing which the work-
era wear to the floors and ceilings of
tne Dig plant. Today, a year after th
Plant has been in steady operation.
is even much cleaner than it was whe
the building was turned over by th
Duiiders.
Have you ever been In the painting
room or a carriage factory or a furnl
ture factory? Probably, if it was an
average factory, the paint was six
. inches thick on the floor and spattered
almost to the top of the celling.
ell, then, imagine one in which
Mack paint is the leading color dealt
In. Also imagine it as clean as th
pastry-room, of a modern tile-lined
Bakery. - - -
Such is the case at the Ford branch
The waUs are white enameled and the
floors are a light ETay.
'. Dirt Easy to Find.
That is because the dirt will show
better and will be easier to find," said
Manager JNorman. By way or explana
tionv
When the writer was taken through
the room had just been cleaned up
after several hundred sets of parts had
been Mack enameled. The paint troughs
bad been drained. The draining pans
wore emptied and washed and all metal
ehone with the luster of a new dollar.
The light-colored floor was in the
process of being cleaned and the
specks of black paint were rapidly dis
appearing from the white work. That
Js done after each day's work and
when the workmen start in the morn
inc. the room Is again as neat and
orderly as the operating room of a big
Hospital.
! Tools All Put Away.
No tools are seen anywhere. The
only tools are those in the hands of
th workmen or in the immediate vi
cinity of some job. When used they
are cleaned and returned to the check
room, where a special operative takes
care of them, inspects them and sees
that they are In proper condition for
the next job.
There is no dirty waste to be seen.
Polished metal cans line the hall. If
an? waste is needed, it is taken from
cne can. used and thrown In the waste
cum without bein? allowed to smear
up any floors or benches.
- The workmen themselves might all
beMnternes in some big hospital. It is
a :-ertainty that many bakers and
foedstuff makers have a lot to learn
from the Ford system.
The novice asks: "How can a work
man, for example, take down an old
enfiine, work on it all day, and still
be wearing clean clothes?"
s Kxplaaation Is Simple.
The explanation is simple. The en
pine, immediately upon arrival, ia given
a bath. It is lifted from the chasis
by- a chain block and dipped into a big
vajl of boiling acid.. A few minutes' im
mersion and it comes out with all
srenses, dirt and old paint removed.
- Jt is then no dirtier Job than re
pairing a watch or a typewriter.'
Of tspecial interest are the many
novel machines which save time and
labor. One of the most interesting is
the wheel palntinjr machine. j
!That was invented by a 16-year-old
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boy who was blamed for being too
slow." explained Mr. Norman.
He worked in the Ford factories at
Detroit, ,day; in. and day out, laborious
ly painting the wheels, which, because
of the absence of straight lines and
planes, was a slow Job. One daiy the
foreman thought he was slower, than
usual.
Boy Stadiea Problem.
The boy ate bis lunch and then be
gan to figure of some better way to
paint those thousands and thousands
of wheels which were piled up on all
sides. The driU press seemed the so
lution.
box is used it is removed. The cases
are all of the same etyle, and the order
is perfect.
. In another corner is the branch hos
pital now being installed. A male nurse
will soon- be placed in charge. .
Manager Norman was asked why all
this care and perfection in detail.
"We find that it is" the one way to
attain the highest efficiency," he said.
"Take the stock-room. There is one
place for every particular kind of
thing. There is no danger of losing
any vital part.
"Also there is no danger of ever run
ning out of just the part which may be
"The boy took the pan of paint and most needed to place some car bacK
put it on the drill table. Then he fast
ened the wheel to the drill and filled
the hub so that the paint would not fill
the bearings. Then he pressed the drill
down and the wheel sank into the
paint-
He raised it and let it spin and cen
trifugal force wiped off the excess
paint. The machine saved thousands of
gallons oi paint ana one man aia ioe
work or 20. With a few alterations,
the drill press was made into a paini
ng machine and one man now does all
the work for this plant with the ma
chine standing idle more than half the
time.
Another machine enables one man to
line 100 brake bands in an hour. Spe
cial machines put together the parts
of the chassis.
Assembling; Time Cat.
The Portland factory is getting bet
ter every day and in one yxar has cut
the trme pf assembling a Ford from 47
minutes to 27.
The first step in the time-saving
was accomplished by putting the as
semblers all on one floor and within
150 feet. The parts stand on each side.
always put there the day before. In
that way, a Ford runs out on its own
power, just 27 minutes after the first
workman touches its parts.
Down on the ground floor an exten
sive testing plant has been installed.
The branch does all repairing and com
pletely overhauls an owner's car in six
hours.
After the re-assembling, the motor is
put on the block against an immense
lectric motor and a thorough test is
given it before it is put back in the
customer s car. N'o matter how small
the Job on the motor, it is tested.
On the other side is a cylinder re-
borer. Bearings are tested and
ligned by another expensive machine.
The stock-room looks like a vault
a mint. Kverv style of parts is pot
way in cases of o. As soon as one
into service. We notice a shortage
long before actual need.
IVo Employe Gets Sick.
"The light-and cleanliness through
out the 'factory -make conditions bet
ter for the employes. No man, no mat
ter what the weather, ever gets sick
because of conditions at the plant.
Sanitary fountains are at every corner.
"These conditions, coupled with the
minimum of 5 a day, gives us a force
of which we expect and get the high
est efficiency.
. The general Ford factory conditions
prevail throughout the offices. All
employes, with the exception of mes
sengers and girls, get $5 a day. The
messenger boys get from $2 up. The
telephone operators get nearly $100 a
month, and the womeu clerks get more
than that.
BRITISH GAS TAX ACCUMULATES
Six Cents Gallon Which British Have
Paid May Help XHstressed.
For more than three years there has
been a duty on gasoline in the British
Isles equivalent to 6 cents a gallon, the
full brunt of which has fallen on the
consumer, and, as lor tne past two
years the price of the spirit has been
steadily rising, there Is no doubt that
the expensive nature of gasoline has
in some measure retarded the develop
ment of the motor market, particularly
as this comes In addition to the horse
power tax.
The petrol tax was introduced into
England by Lloyd George's famous
budget of 1910. The funds raised by it,
together with the money brought in by
the motor license duties were given into
the charge of a body known as the
Road Board. The funds were to be
used for the improvement of roads, but
pense of all road repair work has to be
borne by the local authorities.
The Road Board has had to be very
sparing with its grants, because it was
intended that the money should be
saved as much as possible until a period
of trade depression comes along, and
then the unemployed would be set to
work on the roads.
Last . year the Road Board was at
tacked inside Parliament and out by
those who thought it unfair that motor
ists should continue to be taxed so
heavily while more than $10,000,000 ot
the money raised, so far from .having
been used for Improvements, had been
invested. The Road Board adopted the
atutuae oi wait ana see, ana now
perhaps its large reserve fund will
come in very useful for relieving the
distress which is bound to follow the
war. .'
THE COLE STANDARD SIX 7-PASSENGER TOURING CAR AT $16S5.00
F. O. B. Factory.
THE MAN OF THRIFT, who combines luxury and elegance with economy,
buys a COLE Standardized Car.
A COLE OWNER enjoys the distinction of being discriminative as well as
having business judgment for the COLE is the embodiment of LUX
URY at a THRIFT price.
It Will Be a Pleasure to Show You the
COLE at Our Exhibit.
Northwest Auto Company
Broadway and Couch Street.
POPPIES TO IjIXE LINCOLN- WAY
California Children Have Planted
State Flower Along Xational Road.
When the stream of Eastern tourists
begins to pour- into California next
Spring over the Lincoln Highway they
will pass for mile after mile between
rows of California poppies, while the
Foothill boulevard leading into Oak
land will be further beautified with i
fringe of blue pines, which will set off
the brilliant yellow of the poppies.
The work of gathering the poppy
seeds and of planting them along the
Lincoln Highway has been undertaken
by the school children of Almeda Coun
ty under the direction of Professor G. C
Smith, of San Leandro. vice-president
of the California Botanical Society.
The children of the other counties in
California crossed - by i the - Coast-to-
Coast road are expected to follow the
example.
Most of the seed -has already been
gathered, the children having worked
hard all Summer.
Her Creed. '
(London Telegraph.)
Gertie I wish to show you
don't stand on trifles.
Helen (glancing at her feet)
dear; I see you don't-
that I
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Warmth and Expense of It.
Boston Transcript. ' '
She "The mere thought of the furs
you have promised me makes me feel
warm." He "And the mere thought of
their cost makes cold shivers run down
not lor their maintenance, as the ex- my back.'
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Rides the Bumps Like a Boat
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See it with the new Fisher body and high-grade,
luxurious upholstering.. Its wonderful motor with
smooth-flowing power and lack of vibration gives
you positively the best value ever before offered at
1 TOO
F. O. B. PORTLAND
See Us at the Auto Show!
Dulmage-Manley Auto Co.
46 and 48 North Twentieth Street.