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ROMANCE OF THE LITTLE RED WAGON FACTORY. The reception given the Model A Ford in Canada, throughout the British Empire--in fact in every civilized land where it is possible to drive an automobile, and the en- thusiasm for this car which has per- sisted over many months, is one of the most phenomenal events in the history] % of the automotive world, and is sur- passed in its impressiveness only by the romantic story of progress of The Ford Motor Company. The Model A in Canada brings a distinctly new Era in automobile values. There is a permanency about its future and evident in its engineer- ing that makes it outstanding. It is not built just for to-day, but for the era of good roads spreading fast throughout.-Canada. In building the model A, it was decided to incorporate advanced features of construction as would eliminate the necessity of cost- ly yearly dels--which aut bil dealers throughout the country pay dearly for every year and sometimes twice a year. In this principle alone there is a parallel to the famous model T. Speaking of the famous T carries one back to the romantic history of the Ford Motor Company of Canada. A little red wagon factory in Windsor, Ontario, or what is now known as Ford, was the birthplace of the Company. In these modern days of gigantic mergers in industry and million dollar concerns on every side, it is interesting to hark back to how leading Canadian enterprises made their start. Under the laws of the Province of Ontario, the Company was formed in 1904 with a capitalization of only $125,000. There were only three persons in the Company's office staff. The little red wagon factory, con- verted into a horseless carriage plant was equipped with a 756 horsepower power plant. This first factory cer- tainly held little promise of an in- dustry that was destined to develop into the British Empire's greatest automobile organization! In the little red wagon factory a Model C Ford was used to provide power to run the elevator in the two story building as well as to operate the solitary drill press, In the first year sixteen employes were on the pay roll. It was a fierce struggle to carry on with prejudices hampering the new industry on all sides, in the early days, and only staunch pioneers at the helm guided through the peril- ous days. Of such stock was Gordon M. McGregor, who died in the spring of 1922, He was an outstanding figure in the development-of the new industry in the Dominion. Under Mr. McGregor's able hands the business of the little red wagon factory continued to grow. He was the vice president and general manager and lived to see his work reach great achievements. On few occasions do gigantic ine dustries shut down the doors of their plants from coast to coast from nation to nation--involving a million or more in payroll and millions in transporta- tion vehicles, yet when Gordon M. McGregor passed away, not a wheel turned in the vast Ford enterprises for a day, and Henry Ford and Edsel attended the funeral in Windsor. Seven years after the Company was organized, the outstanding capitaliza- tion was increased to three quarters of a million and in 1916, a 600 per cent dividend brought the amount of issued stock to seven millions. The story of the production growth of the Canadian organization does not pale in comparison with that of the American company in proportion to its field. For instance, in 1910 there were turned out 1280 cars. The dawn of the automotive age was breaking} interna fast in the Dominion and the era of the light vehicle opent! speedily, for inside of two years the "output rose from the figure given above to 6,200 cars. Then up to the year of the Great 'War in 1914, production had grown to 15,000 automobiles. The greatest: jump in Canadian produetion came in 1916 and 1917 when output pushed ahead from 27,000 to 50,000 auto- mobiles. "It was not until 1909 that the first pA A ha ------ pany of Canada. That the Canadian - Ford dealers will enjoy a new era of prosperity seems more than obvious especially when compared with other milestones 'of progress of the Ford | Motor Company. rouds in sen Cee deal ir 2 Haale an active -- in good roads' agitation. Steady pro- gress is being made, however; and following, we print in part am item from "The New York Times", cover-] ing the road development in Canada: "Of the total of some 800,000 miles of road allowance in Canada, about 93,000 miles may be degeribed as im- proved, an elastic term which ranges all the way from a gravel surface consolidated by traffic to bituminous. or concrete highways constructed in aceordance with the most modern engineering practice. The significant fact is that all this improvement, with the exception of some graveling done in the two older Provinces of Ontario and Quebec, has been the work of the past twenty years, er just five years longer than the ex- istence of the Canadian Good Roads Association. LIOR > » Government Aid 25 Years Old It is only twenty-five years: since the first Government action was taken looking to the encouragement of construction of a higher type of rural highways than the primitive roads which, with the exception of a few. routes laid out and built for military purposes in the early days of the Bastern Provinces, had from the time of the" early settlements been deemed sufficient to serve the needs of the country dwellers. It is true that some progressive rural municipalities had previously. under- taken the extra expenditures neces- sary to provide gdod gravel surfaces on the original dirt roads, but these efforts were the result of purely lo- cal initiative, and produced only short and isolated strétches of what could be described as improved roads only because they were a shade better than the rough, rutted, sandy or muddy atrocities which they replaced. Not until the present century was ten or more years old did Ontario and Quebec adopt definite and systematic policies of highway improvement, and while other Provinces soon followed their example, there was perforce a lagging in the work during the war years. A decided fillip was given to the good roads movement in 1919 by the action of the Dominion Govern- ment in providing a fund of $20,000,- 000 to aid the Provinces in bettering the conditions of their main highways, to be distributed on a basis of popula- tion and applied in the proportion of Dictator to Retire Primo de Rivera, Dictator of Spain, is going to retire within a few weeks, assording to reports from that country. It is claimed that popular disfavor by the . people is responsible for his retire- ment. > ---- Telephone Accounts dated April 1st, which local subscribers will receive within a few days, will be accompanied ny explaining important es in future accounts. To sim; and expedite our billing oi we have divided our esthanges {bio six groups. Each grou receive ac- po ert one of six dif- ferent dates. In that way the work of preparing thousands of accounts will be spread evenly over the whole month. Jeune the accounts of local os s will be dated the twenty-first of each month. You will appreciate the new form of account we are intro- ducing at the same time 'which will have all the figures clearly ted and accurately totalled machines. In addition, ges will be shown right up od: the date of the account. is explained more iy notices which accom- April 1st accounts. Our Blstness Office people will be to give you further in- THE BELL TELEPHONE COMPANY OF CANADA 40 per cent. of the Dominion grant to 60 per cent. contributed by any Pro- vince for construction or improvement that would meet the high standard and rigid specifications for which pro- vision was made in the Federal legislati thoriging the of the fund. This action was wholly a gesture of grace on the part of the Dominion Government, as under the British North America Act, which émbodied the terms of Confederation in 1867, roads were included with ed civil justice and other matters which are the sole responsibilities of the various Provinces. The chief argu- ment advanced in rt of Fed- 41 +3. payers for the building of highways, as was the case in the early days of their forward policy, put to decide which of the roads that are de- manded should be built' first and where the money is to come from. This does not mean that the asso- ciation has lost its usefulness, but only that its energies have been di- verted into new channels. - Its present activities include promotion of safety on the highways by workable regula- tions and education of the motoring and pedestrian public, uniformity of road signs and signals tliroughout the Dominion, and the maint of a leari house through = which all eral aid was that the use of the au- tomobile had created new conditions which could not possibly have 'been foreseen at Confederation, and that | o highway travel was no longer re- stricted to short distances, but had become interprovincial, national and international in its scope. -. Ph Large Mien Completed. By 1926 practically the whole of the Dominion grant of $20,000,000 had been applied for and expended by the provinces, -which meant a total 'out- fay of $50,000,000 on main roads alone, taking no account of much larger sums spent by the provinces and the municipalities on secondary and other roads. As a result of these | 3 Model T was manufactured, and this | mil car was destined, to bring new periods of output and prosperity for the one- ; ugheu r pushing 'through the roads and high-| . OR ae ore wi the hose and wagon parties interested may secure data as to construction methods, costs, ma- terials, taxation and the other numer- 398 Jepesta of modern roadmaking. oes not presume to tell the Bras what roads should be built, but it does undertake to say how they should be built and used to give the maximum service and the greatest possible degree of safety to the people of Canada. + -- (ren {is BERS Hogg & Lytle, Ltd. Gamegie Hardware Co. - ° Port Parry; Ont. 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