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August 20. 1943

DETROIT JEWISH CHRONICLE and The Legal Chronicle

The Ford Way
Of Doing Business
In Wartime

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01.1 MAY NOT

be buying Ford cars today, but you are still a Ford
customer. Through your government you are spending your tax
dollars and investing in war bonds to buy the bombers, tanks, tank
destroyers, jeeps and other material that Ford is building for Victory.

Ford Methods Save
Money And Materials

And the Ford organization is working for you on these war orders with
the same high skill . . . the same eye toward value and economy that
governed production of over 30,000,000 peacetime Ford cars and trucks.

Ford Methods Get
The Job Done Quickly

It always was Ford policy to share the benefits of advanced methods
with employees and customers alike. And that policy is still being
pursued. You arc still getting an honest deal for your money.

Keeping Costs Down

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Ford keeps down costs on war goods in the same way it kept down
costs on cars—by using Ford mass-production techniques, advanced
methods, highly - skilled workers and high management efficiency.

A new Ford method
of quenching tank armor

plate eliminates later straightening. Dies hold the
plate during the process. Forty hours are saved on
each 51-4 medium tank and
M- 10 tank destroyer hull.

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arm
Gun mount cradles

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for tanks, formerlymade
of 27 parts, are made today at the Ford
tank plant
of only three castings, reducing production time
by two-thirds and facilitating
repairs in the field.

Output per employee is high even though thousands of inexperienced
new workers--many of them women—have been placed in jobs which
demand exacting skill. This quick development of proficiency has been
made possible by comprehensive Ford training programs.

Equally important in boosting the output and lowering the costs are
the working conditions in Ford shops. They are the best that science
and constant care can make them. These factors, coupled with the
company's long-known and practiced policy of high wage rates and
fair dealing, create an ability and an attitude toward the job that is
reflected in both the quality and quantity of production.

Difficult Jobs Done By Ford

Ford

is producing gliders by mass production
methods. Among Ford developments is a proc-
ess of quick-drying the glue joints that cuts dry-
ing time from nine hours to one hour on each wing.

The jobs we have undertaken were brought to Ford because your
government representatives knew we would do our best with them.

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Ford is a volume producer of heavy horsepowe
r aircraft engines!
This is the most exacting type of precision work.

Automotive-production methods save time
in building war weapons. For instance, the Ford
method of drying paint on jeeps by Infra-Red limns
i• ow dces the work in minutes instead of hours

Thda1' Ford is a foremost producer of Liberator bombers!

■ Ford, in collaboration wrth government engineers, developed

the amphibian jeep builds this and the famous land jeep in
huge quantities!

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Ford builds . 111-4 medium tanks„11
10 tank destroyers, the Ford
tank engin e .
and vast quantities of other
rear materials.

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At Willow Run the top section of the bombar-
dier's enclosure, formerly made in 13 (sand-formed
pieces —is now made in only 3 parts —saving 30
hours in the construction time of each bomber

Thday Ford is in fall production for Victory. The Ford Motor

Company is operating more plant capacity, employing more people,
Turning out snore goods than ever before.

What This Means To You

A

horizontal ergine iathe at WillowRon carry-
ing Ford-designed equipment turns a gun-turret
track for a It-24 Liberator. This machine sac et
time and holds the work to 1 10,000 of an inch.

Throughout forty )e.as of
service to the people Ford has built upon
the solid foundation of practical ideals and technical "know how:'
Today the Ford way of doing business means more value to you,
our customers, and honestly-built materials for our sons at the front.

FORD MOTOR COMPANY

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The airplane landing gear hinge formerly

Ford Mass-Production Lines Deliver Fleets of Weapons

made

of nine hand-welded parts, is now cast in one
piece, eliminating 50% of the tools formerly used
1 lots again Ford methods save time and materials.

M-4 MEDIUM TANKS • Is1-1U TANK DESTROYERS • PRATT & WHITNEY AIRCRAFT

ENGINES • JEEPS • AMPHIBIAN JEEPS • ARMY TRUCKS • CONSOLIDATED

LIBERATOR BOMBERS • TRANSPORT GLIDERS • UNIVERSAL

TANK ENGINES • TRUCK AND JEEP ENGINES • ARMOR PLATE • GUN MOUNTS
',BB:RAFT GENERATORS • T
URBO -
SUPERCHARGERS • MAGNESIUM CASTINGS
RATE.OF.CLISIB INDICATORS

Ily the Ford method

of using steel dies in
heavy presses, only three dies instead of 11.0 are re
quired to form the stripping and interiors cc lions of
b ombardiercompartment
s in I old-uuil, Liberators.

This list does not include other important Victory models now
in production that cannot he named due to wartime conditions.

Listen to " !Latch The World Go By.'Every night 8:00

p.m.,

E. W .T. on The Blue Network

Four hours

in manufacturing time and 50 per
cent of steel requirements are saved on each en-
gine by the Ford-developed method of centrifu-
gally casting the aircraft engine cylinder barrels.

FULL PRODUCTION FOR VICTORY

A forest of

automotive-type presses speeds the
production of Ford-built Liberator bombers at
willow Run. One huge press alone saves mote
than 100 hours building wing.tips for these planes.

