Indiana daily times. [volume], February 25, 1920, Home Edition, Page 3, Image 3

About Indiana daily times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1914-1922

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• ' „ The Story of the MARMON 34
Number One
A Pioneer of Indianapolis—
Known Throughout the World
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The higknt htnor conferrtd on any industrial
organization during the war was the award
of the Champion Liberty Motor Builders'
Pennant to the workers of Nordyke & Mor
mon Company. Awarded for October, 1918,
Competition. Permanently awarded Nr t. 16.
A home manufacturing institution whose development has
been so rapid within the last few years that many citizens do
not fully realize its magnitude and importance
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60 acres of ground are nnv covered by the Kordyke Us Marmon Company factories. One million tw hundred thousand square feet of door space are occupied
)4 T Kentucky Avenue and Morris Street there is a great manu
facturing plant. It covers 60 acres of ground. Building
/ m after building—some long and low, some high and wide—
JL resounds with the busy hum of industry. Hammers ring,
whirling saws sing as they bite through the wood, automatic machines
shape iron and steel with finest accuracy.
New buildings are nearing completion. One of them is 600 feet
long, 80 feet wide and five stories high. Another is 800 feet long and
100 feet wide. A mighty power plant looms in their midst.
The citizens of Indianapolis have become accustomed to seeing
this plant steadily growing larger as the years have gone by. But
so rapid have been its growth and expansion since the period of the
war that many do not realize the magnitude of its present operations.
NORDYKE ft MAHMON COMPANY KNOWN THE WORLD OVER
They know, in a general way, that large Hour mills—no' only in
this country, but in Europe, China, Japan, Australia, South Africa
—are completely equipped with machinery made in the plant at Ken
tucky Avenue and Morris Street. For throughout the world, w herever
wheat is ground into flour, the name of Nordvke & Marmon Company
is known.
But many do not know that in this department what only a few
years ago was considered a satisfactory volume of business for the year
is now approached in a single month’s output.
THE MARMON 34
. Indianapolis know-s that here is built the motor car which four
years ago introduced new principles of light-weight design and scien
tific construction.
But many do not realize that in the new series Marmon 34, with
its High Efficiency Motor, is reached thejiighcst degree of mechan
ical excellence that the automotive industry has yet attained. They
may not know that 10,000 of these cars will be built in this factory in
1920—an average of nearly 200 cars a week.
5,000 EMPLOYEES 1,200,000 SQUARE FEET OP FLOOR SPACE
Indianapolis has seen the plant expanding, has seen new buildings
going up. But there are many citizens who do not know that the total
floor space now occupied is one million two hundred thousand square
feet and that five thousand Indianapolis men and women now find
employment here the year ’round. A training school is maintained
where skilful instructors make competent workmen out of promising
material and where there is an opportunity to “earn while you learn.”
Indianapolis knows that when the war came this highly efficient
organization was turned over with whole-souled loyalty to the nation’s
NORDYKE & MARMON COMPANY, Indianapolis, U.S.A.
Local Branch:—Meridian and Eleventh Streets Established 1851
Marmon Dealers in Indiana: Dixie Motors Company, Evansville, Indiana; Northern Indiana Motor Car Company, Fort Wayne, Indiana;
Chenoweth Auto Company, Richmond, Indiana; J. T. J. Graves, Salem, Indiana
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service. All the company’s resources, equipment and facilities, were
devoted to the manufacture of two types of aircraft motors. A huge
building was erected for the manufacture of Liberty Motors.
All Indianapolis remembers the public presentation and award of
the Champion Liberty Motor Builders’ Pennant to the workers of
Nordyke & Marmon Company—the highest honor conferred on any
industrial organization during the war.
WAR’S STRICT REQUIREMENTS CONTINUED
But all Indianapolis may not be aware that many of the buildings
erected and equipped during war times are now used in the building
of the new' series Marmon 34—that all that its war service taught the
organization—in w orking to closer limits in quantity production—in
inspection supervision very close to the ultimate in exactness —has
been retained, and is to-day a part of Marmon daily shop practice.
To cite a single instance: Every Marmon High Efficiency Motor
is run for four hours on an accurate dynamometer test, then is com
pletely torn down and subjected to the most rigid inspection before it
is again assembled.. This was Liberty Motof practice; it is now stand
ard Marmon practice.
BUILDED ON HIGH IDEALS
There is inspiration in the story of the growth and development of
Nordyke & Marmon Company, from a small beginning 69 years ago
to one of the country’s great manufacturing institutions.
For throughout the history of this company is conspicuous one
great fundamental policy—strict integrity. To build the best ma
chines that can be built and to se’l them at a fair price— to exceed in
quality and in service the requirements, the expectations, of those who
buy them—this is the policy on wffiich this institution has been built.
In the heart of every one of the workers in this great factory is the
same ingrained integrity. Many of them have been with the company
for twenty years—some twice as long. They can not do poor work
—they do not know how. Too long has the Nordyke & Marmon gos
pel of “the best always” been instilled. Even newcomers in the plant
feel its influence.
You arc cordially invited to visit the Nordyke & Marmon Com
pany plant. Go through the long buildings w here are made these mills
which grind the w'orld’s flour, these motor cars which have set new
standards for the industry. See the skill, the painstaking care with
which every smallest part is finished to the closest limits. See how for
the first time in the automotive industry “tool room” precision and
accuracy are successfully applied on a “production” scale.
If you will advise the Local Branch of your desire to visit the plant,
arrangements will be promptly made.
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