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DETROIT
JEWISH CHRONICLE
CHEVROLET-FLINT'S WORLD TOUCH
By GEORGE H. NAURER.
Welfare Department, Chevrolet Motor Company.
cient craftsmen, guided by a force of
highly trained executives, put togethiT
the finely finished parts of the car
that has a world-wide reputation ir
economical transportation.
Es,
thing known to industrial heads o...!
applicable to auotmobile factorie..,
the nature of safety devices and
reducing methods has been adopt....,
while the greatest stress is laid
quality of material and workman,-
in each component part and its
to the user of the finished prod ,
The Chevrolet car, upon leaving t la
assembly line in the spacious ti
shed, 200 by 254 ft. in size, adjein•
the main building on the east, is sup
jetted to the most critical inspect,.
and must register 100 per cent in
der to he passed on to the salto.
partment.
A late acquisition to the Chem,,
factories is a sheet metal plant, v h,
the stamping of all sheet metal
is done. This building has floor sp., e
462x200 ft. and has its own reeek
docks running its entire length and
paralleled by trackage capable
handling 23 cars at one time.
The departments of mainten , ,
CHAS. F. BARTH
smithing, etc., as well as gen.
Gen. Mgr.
stores, police and fire protection,
located at points consistent with
Chevrolte Motor Co.
Mr. Barth's first step as a power cessibility to all parts of the plant hod
in the automobile industry as repre- are in charge of highly efficient men.
The executive offices are situated in
sented by the factories of Flint, was
when he became general manager of a separate building of the most moi-
st
type. It is a five-story brick
the Mason Motor Company in July
of 1917. The merger of the Mason s tructure of some years standing, and
Motor Company into the present hoists the offices of the general man-
Chevrolet Motor Company, January 1, ager and his assistant and staff, the
1918, was soon followed by the ap-
pointment of Mr. Barth as general
manager of the merged companies.
Our aim for the past six years has been to
give personal attention and highest standard
work to each customer.
Our business has inereased during this
period to such an extent we feel this service
is (wit/Teti/red.
"Headquarters for Hair Goods."
Franco-American
Beauty Shoppe
217 E. Kearsley St.
Phone 3740.
BAKER BUSINESS UNIVERSITY AND
CONSERVATORY OF MUSIC
E. Kean,ley and Harrison St.., Flint, Mich.
OFFERS INSTRUCTION IN THE FOLLOWING:
Bookkeeping
Typewriting
Rapid Calculation
Shorthand
Dictaphone
Filing
Business English
Business Correspondence
Banking
Commercial Law
Spelling
Cost Accounting
Civil Service
Office Practice
Salesmanship
Penmanship
Art
Commercial Arithmetic
Oratory and Voice Expression
MUSIC:
Piano
Voice
Violin
Sight Singing
Harmony
Counterpoint
Ask for Catalog
Fugue Writing
Muscial History
Day and Night School
PHONE 1731
ELDON E. BAKER, Pre..
Ambulance Service Day or Night
W. H. LOSS & CO.
Funeral Directors and Embalmers
1015 N. Saginaw St.
Telephone 4286
JEFF'S FISH MARKET
WHOLESALE AND RETAIL
709 TRAFALIT
FRESH AND SMOKED FISH
POULTRY
FLINT, MICH.
We take this opportunity to thank the Javrish population of Flint for past
patronage and to assure them thatwe understand the kinds and quality of
Silt they require and will hays It available at all times.
We can assure you of fresh fish through the winter months.
WE HAVE DAILY.
Yellow
Perch
Pickerel
Carp
Mullet
Flounders
White Fish
Smoked Fish
Trout
Holland Herring
Anchovies
Fresh Salmon
Salt Herring
FULL LINE OF EVERYTHING
Fred, ocean Fish and lake Fish. You all know Mr. Doll. Call up and be assured
of the beet fink available.
Truly yours,
JEFF'S FISH MARKET
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Between the rise of ground north
of the Flint river, and Glenwood ave-
nue, on the south, and stretching
along both banks of the river for a
distance of three-quarters of a mile,
are grouped the buildings constitut-
ing one of, if not the largest the most
complete automobile plants in the
country, and an assembly plant of no
mean proportions.
Within the area mentioned are lo-
cated the shops and offices of the Flint
unit of the Chevrolet Motor Company,
containing 1,970,000 sq. ft. of floor
space, and it is here that the 3,000
motors per day required by the com-
bined assembly plants of the com-
pany, scattered over the U. S. A. from
Tarrytown, New York, to Oakland,
California, are produced. In addition
there are completely assembled and
equipped and driven away under their
own power 00,000 per annum of the
world famous Chevrolet ears.
The development of this gigantic
plant has been going on since October,
1911, when a dozen chaps, now grown
old in the service, were turning out
one motor per day and that one motor
was a contraption little appreciated
by the public, while today the Chev-
rolet is favorably known wherever
man deals with his neighbor and
trade and commerce are carried on.
The building in which the motors
are manufactured is 898 ft. long and
330 ft. wide, the north and south
wings being two stories high and the
center having no upper floor, the roof
forming the ceiling. Here the finish-
ing of parts and assembly of motors
is carried en by a force of 4,500
skilled engineers and mechanics, heat
treating, tool designing and tool mak-
ing being further activities of this
shop, while the superintendents, tool
designers, metalurgists, draftsmen
and telephone operators have quar-
ters on the second floor. The com-
pleteness of the equinment and the
provisions for economical and safe
nroduction, torether with facilities
for comfort of employes is the last
word in factory design, and onpor-
tonity for improvement lies only in
the fact that possibilities in this di-
rection are ne'-er exhausted. On the
north and south side of this building
and stretching its entire length are
shinning and receiving docks over
which a constant stream of carts and
material, finished and in the rough,
and motors crated for shipment are
passing, handled by a system of con-
veyors and other labor saving desires.
The assembly niant. located on the
north bank of the river, is three
stories hirh, covering ground snare of
200x640 ft. Hero 2,500 highly eft-
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CHARLES E. WETHERALD
Ass't. Gen, Mgr.
Chevrolet Motor Co.
Mr. Wetherald'a experience started
witih the buildinig of the original
Buick car and has been in the auto-
mobile manufacturing line since, hav-
ing been advanced to his present po-
sition as factory manager because of
his experience and ability as an exec-
utive.
secretary and treasurer, purchasing,
traffic, sales and accounting depart-
ments, and the plant post and print.
ing offices, together with all necessary
vaults and filing rooms, and while the
appointments meet all demands for
convenience and comfort and the
equipment in the way of office devices
is complete, the visitor is at once im-
pressed with the simplicity of his sur-
roundings, all austentation being ab-
sent but everything necessary to ren-
der prompt and satisfactory service
being at his command.
In addition the company maintains
a department of personnel, which in-
cludes the employment, medical, safety
recreational, industrial relation and
welfare activities.
To Charles F. Barth, vice-president
and general manager of the company.
is due the credit of having developed
one of the best manned and most har-
moniously conducted organizations in
American industry. His personal
touch produces results in any direr.
tion, and nowhere is this more in evi-
dence than in his choice in the selec-
tion of assistants and the staff of ex-
perts under his jurisdiction. He is
himself an untiring worker and has
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