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Winnetka Weekly Talk, 4 Jul 1925, p. 13

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WINNETKA WEEKLY TALK, SATURDAY, JULY 4, 1925 13 GRAHAMS TAKE Truck Manufacturers Ex- pand Production Following closely the information 1%i-ton trucks than any other manu- facturer during the first quarter of 1925, and ranked second in the 1-ton | With tires are mounted on the axles. and 1}5-ton fields combined, comes the | Then, the chassis, still moved by the ¢ William T. [long chain, rolls onward on its own announcement from Wersted, local dealer, that their De. | Wheels. ; : 3 troit factory has again found it neces- work the various units are placed in ¢ sary to take greatly enlarged space. |POSition and the various bolts and nuts On June 18, it is also announced, [are securely tightened with Graham Brothers opened a new Pacific | Pheumatic wrenches. coast plant in Stockton, California. Including Graham Brothers, Canada, Ltd., this gives them four factories. The rapidity of Graham overhead conveyor, turned right side up, carried through an enamel spray and then through an enamel oven 200 feet long. The passage is timed at 30 minutes and the temperature is care- fully controlled to insure proper baking of the durable, lustrous enamel. it is picked up by another overhead conveyor which takes it around a right angle turn and places it upon the final assembly conveyor. 400 feet long and travels about 4 feet . per minute to produce 150 trucks per that Graham Brothers produced more 9 hour day. creased production and adoption of / Brothers' | the A01y : ' () growth is clearly indicated by the re- | Brothers, it is possible for Graham ¢ peated increases in their space require- | Brothers to deliver such exceptional ( ments--which have much more than [truck value at a low price. Marvel of Efficiency The frame is then taken by a small events. Indian Hill Club Plans Ir Big Fourth of July Day afternoon and 200 guests are expected | Humboldt avenue, had as their. house Members of the Indian Hill Country club will gather there on the Fourth of July for a day e 3 het] There will be both golf and |There will be no pyrotechnic display. tennis matches in the morning and Mr. and Mrs. Clarence Lathrop, 826 at the dinner-dance in the evening. Font over the ong osleeand, Mrs. The dance will be held on the newly athrops sister from Elgin, who came Ai to attend a party given at the Edge- special golf [completed dining porch of the club. water Beach hotel in honor of Mrs. John Tool, Mrs. Lathrop's daughter. As the frame emerges from the oven NNN During the first 100 feet the wheels J With the regularity of clock- J special g Inspection of the assembly line in () ull swing shows clearly how, with in- assembly methods of Dodge doubled each year since 1921. The first Detroit plant, in 1921, had || 13,000 square feet. During 1922 this was increased to 27,000 and during 1923 to 40,000. In May, 1923, they moved into a plant of 60,000 square feet, more advantageously located with respect to Dodge Brothers, from whom they obtain the engine for their trucks. Soon, still more space was required. First, 36,000, then 50,000 more square feet were added, and on June 1, 1925, 330zher move gave them 250,000 square eet. Open Huge Plant Graham Brothers now have a space under one roof 400 feet by 600 feet in WE PAY CASH ------- g é for seller's interest in monthiy ¢ payment contracts and second ¢ mortgages on residence proper- g ties ; Craft, McConaughy & [] Wolcott 5 40 North Dearborn St. 5 Randolph 1420 Chciago, III. ) a steel and concrete building which was erected by Dodge Brothers dur- ing the winter of 1917 as an ordnance plant for the manufacture of recoil mechanism for 155 millimeter French heavy guns. The new plant has been laid out for direct flow of materials, units and parts from the receiving docks through the various departments and stockrooms to the assembly line with- out any retracing or unnecessary handling. Materials from the railroad cars are unloaded on covered platforms 400 feet long by 40 feet wide and conveyed down an aisle 24 feet wide by 540 feet long in the main building to the proper stockrooms or departments. At the extreme end of this aisle and at right angles to it is the frame as- sembly line. While the frame travels a distance of 100 feet, wrong side up, on a conveyor, the necessary brackets are hot rivited in place and the springs and front and rear axles are attached. THE GRACE HICKOX STUDIOS Fine Arts Building, Chicago, Ill. 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