Barrie Historical Newspaper Archive

Barrie Examiner, 17 Apr 1962, p. 11

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Whole World Storehouse For Automotive Purchases The entire world is the store house from whidt the automo bile industry draws to produce the cars Americans drive Even the Loyalty islands oil the east coast of Australia supply chro mile the ore used in platings and alloys Philippine sugar cane provides cellulose for lately glass crude rubber comes from Ceylon and Malaya Africa produces indus trial diamonds and asbestos Bolivian tin and domestic steel glass copper and some 18000 other items either in raw form or linishod parts come irom Ill over the world to the lac tories oi the midwest for in ciusion in the automaking pro Icess The site oi the industry can be judged by its annual shop ping list it used nearly 17 million tons 01 steel last year and thats about iiith oi ll steclr produced here in tome categories sheet steel tor instance the auto industry Alecounts or an even greater proportion of annual production GIANr APPETITE it also takes 704 per cent oi the malleable iron 469 per cent of the lead 676 per cent joi the rubber 613 per cent of the leather upholstery and about 70 per cent oi the plate glass When Alfred Politz Research asked consumers to name the products they associated most veloseb with steel automobiles were named many more times than any other product This hardly surprising since up wards of ton of steel is us red in the popular priced cars accounting for about twothirds fat the total weight of car Even in the new compacts steel is the most important component accounting or about £5 per cent of the cars weight But in addition to steel and other visible parts such as glass tires and iabric auto makers buy such exotic items as baby bottle nipples tior cov ering certain parts as they go through paint spraying booths crushed walnut shell for some metalpolishing oper ations ground corn cobs tior polishing compound cactus titch used in air clennerst and castor all one of the com ponents of brake fluid GOOD OLD DAYS Since the time in 1908 when fewer than 200000 autos were on the mud paths that passed for mods when the countrys leading banking house deemed that the solu ration point in car ownership had been reached the indust ry has continuted to mushroom Currently there are nearly 76 million motor vehicles register ed in the United States includ ing 03 million passenger cars and million tracks Three of every four families own auto mobiles in its growth the auto in dustry has revolutionized the nations economy Pluneered major advances in industrial production and assembly made city dwellers suburbnnites and made rural isolation thing of the past Family outings and even family camping trips are now familiar customs The vast ma jority of vacationing Americans travel by car and there is virtually no part of the coun try thnt is inaccessible The automobile has become so much part at every Am ericans life that the tnduslry that produces it has become unique among the nations producers of economic wealth to the average man it has be come part at his personal life People are centninly aware oi the steel industry but few oi them buy Ian at steel bars When man install wood panelling in the play room he might think fleeting ty of the lumber industry But his car is in the drive way every day and more lik ely than not he use it several times day Whether or not the car is driven to work its likely the whole tanniy rides in it on trips to school shop ping and all sorts of social and recreational activities And breathes there man with curiosity so stilled that he has never opened the hood to tinker even little with the engine underneam All of this makes the industry that pro nuces his car seem real and iamiliar to him Automotive Steel Industries Dependent On One Another Automobiles and steel are two of our nations vital indusA tries whos destinies tire to great degree interdependent Considering that about onefilth of our huge annual steel out put goes into car production the importance of one business to the other becomes selfevld Llt inwards of ton of steel goes into the production of modem automobile This con sists at morerthan 160 distinct varieties of steel prepared in more than thousand combin ations of form size quality and composition Not only is steel the basic material in autos but it is the only one of the more than 18000 items that go into cars which can perform dual and triple functions Steol gives structure and strength to the automobile and WM Mile After Mile of Warm Weather Driving Ahead at the same time help insure reliability and durability it forms an excellent base for paint and the resulting colored component becomes coordin 3th port at the cars decor Vinyl coating is irequcntly plied to steel ving it color textured sh and resist ance to abrasion ENQUIRE NOW as to the ndvantagel of lEASlNG CAR BARRIE DRIVEACAR Dunlap Plt Htlt Share our uvingl Weve made special purchase of van quantity of top qUITlIY lute radios Buqu of this quantity purlt than we saved many dollars on every rl dloi 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