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SATURDAY, JULY 27, 1929.
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BROCKWAY
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WORLD PRODUC- TION.
A Slackening Demand.
SATURATION POINT?
MAKERS ECONOMY, SCHEMES.
Elimination of Waste in Ford Factories.
Figures of world' mobor
1
What Henry Ford has accom- Slau census, taken by tlie "American plished in manufacturing economy Wood Platin Automobile" show when compar by the saving of factory surpluses Johansson Gaupe ed with statistics for provious is disclosed in a report on the salo
years that there was a stackening of by-products made public by the In the rate of output in 1928. The Ford Motor Company to-day.
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1,710,944,78 -17,179.14
1,578,577.60 107,049.8%
418,740.04 224,433.17 01.041.16 18,601.33
$1,016,580.50 $10,774,672.09
There was a gain of $110,840 in|
total of cars, Industrial vehtéles, Supplementing a recent state-the value of Ammonium Sulphate, and passenger buses registered ment on the volume of by-products which is sold by Ford dealers over throughout the world was on obtained from the Ford organiza-the country to farmers and gar- January 1 last 31,929,952. The ion in 1929, the report given out deners for fertilizer. total on January 1, 1928, was, to-day shows an increase in value! The gas sold to the Detroit City 29,505,375, which though it records of $3,758,132.91 over 1927 sales, Gas Co. represents the quantity an increase, is on a percentage Total by-product sales for 1928 accummulated over week-ends and basis only a small one, for the aggrogated $10,774,672.09 while the holidays when plants are not output of the American factorles total for 1927 was $13,016,639.68. operating at full capacity. has been larger than the difference Officials of the company pointed;
Coal Products Sold. between these two totals. Of the out that the careful attention' new total America takes not less given to the disposition of Ford All surplus cake was disposed the commercial market. than 24,494,680 vehicles, compared by-products and their utilization of on with 28,127,815 for the previous for the development of commodi- Capacity of the coke ovens waa ties having the greatest market increased during the year in order year.
The production figures for the value have become important to obtain gas for the oporation of American factories are not given, factors in the economical produc-the Rouge Plant, which accounts and, in any event, they would tion of the Ford automobile. for an increase in the quantity of have no real significance, sinco Nothing was thrown away at the coko-marketed. Coke was sold in the Ford organization has como Ford plants. Everything that could Detroit, shipped, by rail to polula | back into operation only during not be used in motor car building in Michigan and by water to Great Benzel, Bold for the past year, and the full effects was sold or devoted to the manu-Lakes cities. of this return will, not yet be facture of marketable products motor fuel in Detroit, gave the visible. What the Lemporary Investigations were conducted to Ford Company a greater return by This increase stoppage of this establishment has determine new uses for Ford by-8795,383 in 1928. meant is indicated by the fact products.
was made possible by the addi- Savings at the Ford plants rang-tional coke ovena. There was also that in 1927 the total American new output was 3,394,288 motored from platinum to floor sweep a substantial increase in the return from glass sales. Pinto vehicles, against 4,298,902 forings.
1926.
European Figures,'
Waste Wood to Briquets.
glass is manufactured by the Ford) Molor Company for use in its As against these prodigious Waste wood from the sawmill automobiles, but in order to obtain totals Europe manufactured last and body plant of the Ford Motor economical and efficient operation year about 689,000 cars and Company in northern Michigan of the factory the surplus is mar vehicles, and in the various pro- was conveyed to one of the most keted to the commercial trade,
equipped chemicall Coal from the Ford owned mines ducing countries there is either a completely definite decline or marked plants in the world,, where it was in Eastern Kentucky was sold by slackening in the rate of output. converted into Charcoal Briqueta rail shipment to conl dealors in the The census estimates that Great and an Industrial chemical plant middle west and from the Ford Britain's total output last year was erected for the purpose of dock at Duluth, Minn., for use in was 215,000 vehicles, This commaking useful products from the Northwest, The by-produce pared with 200,000 for 1927 and waste wood. Slug was sold in the report also included the sale of These preci- 180,000 for 1926. France, which Detroll area for surfacing roads.Johansson gauges.
next
the. highest among
The report. showing the com- ston measurement blocks are used European countries, manufactured parative value of Ford by-product extensively by large manufactur- ing establishments and are tho 200,000 vehicles last year, 190,000 in 1927 and 1928 follows:-
standard of measurement at the in the previous year, and 200,000
814,250.62 Bureau of Standards in Washing- in 1926. Germany, the next
1,707,342.35 the list, shows most decided promes gress. Last year the output was Charrol 90,000 vehicles, in 1928 it was l Cakr 72,000, and in 1926 it was 54,000, Italy shows n steady, decline. Last year the total production was 50,000, in the previous year it was 65,000, and in, 1926 the figure was 64,700.
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QAmmalum Sulphate Benzol--Mutur
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703,412.06 971,058.69 1,003,102.46
120,776.64
8,760,227.44 1,600,454.01
40.367.75
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Lamber
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IN
1,620,272.52 108,01.05
1925
813,198.0 ton. The gauges are manufac- 302,870.89 tured by C. E, Johansson Division 2,824.677.06 of the Ford Motor Company at
A,027,UE3.20
439,349.00 Dearborn and
are employed
1.867,309.60 throughout the Ford and Lincoln
108,414.BA
10,644.77 automobile plants.
MILLIONS.
Tons, f's Cars.
The figures generally suggest that the absorption capacity of the work market is near the limit. There may be no actual saturation- that point, but it would seem manufacturers must look for the early coming af a time when their VOLUME PRODUCTION, producta must go to meet re- placements rather than the needs
000 greater than that of 1927.
In 1928 the Chevrolet organis tion received 272,868 carloads of) freight, comprising commodities of all kinds used for production purposes. In dend weight this!
1143 tons.
represented a movement of 3,557,-
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These figures were the basis of Some idea of what record volume of new motorists-that is, the in automobile production means the production by Chevrolet of demand in the main will come is conveyed in figures insued by 1,189,124 units during the 12 For this year the scheduled from motorists who have an old the Chevrolet Motor Co., which months of 1928. car to dispose of. This point has show that during 1928 the sixteen production of Chevrolet was first gasoline mixed with alcohol bo in fact been reached in America, plants required to produce the set at 1,250,000, and has since good advantage, it is reported. where to-day more than 50 per
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