October 23, 2018
This is “Our Past Is Present” from the Geary County Historical Society.
Well, last
Tuesday we told you that today’s story would continue with a connection between
the Willys-Overland Company of Toledo, Ohio and the City Theater. Remember the Opera House name had been
changed to the City Theater in 1919 even though some still called the building
the Opera House. The information comes from a January 25, 1919 article titled
“Lyman Howe’s Pictures Show Motor Car Construction In Big Factory”.
The author of the article stated that
“The American manufacturing methods have probably reached their highest
development of efficiency in the huge factories where automobiles are
made. For this reason, the views of the
immense plant of the Willy’s-Overland Company in Toledo, Ohio is said to be the
largest automobile factory in the world.
The pictures
shown follow the making of an automobile from the time the raw material enters
the forges as bar steel, to be formed into crankshafts and piston rods by
immense drop hammers, to the time the finished car leaves the factory under its
own power for the final test.
The time and
labor saving machinery employed and the marvelous efficiency achieved in the
handling and routing of material is clearly shown in these pictures. The
pictures show the various car parts in process of being manufactured and the
employment of some of the most modern factory in use ending in the department
where the final assembly is made on traveling chain belts.
This
picture, starting with the bare skeleton of a car frame that grows as it moves
into a finished automobile and is probably the best exposition of modern
factory efficiency that it would be possible to secure,” according to the
reporter.
And… that’s
today’s story on “Our Past Is Present” from the Geary County Historical
Society.
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