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Durant Car Building Described by Poertner
Publication: New York Tribune
Date: 24 September 1922 |
Conscientious Care Marks the Labor of Each Worker at Plants, He Says
A description of how the Durant closed-car bodies are made was told at the Closed Car Show last night by William C. Poertner, metropolitan distributor of the Durant cars. Individual interest, conscientious care for detail and thorough knowledge of their subject marked the workers in the plants, he declared.
"The construction of a Durant sedan body requires approximately 300 feet of lumber and the coupe body needs about 285 feet of lumber. The metal requirements for the sedan weigh approximately 280 pounds and for the coupe 250 pounds. Besides this there are the inside and outside hardware, electrical equipment, trimming material, glass and paint. One of the most important operations in the process of production is the drying of lumber.
"Every one of the operations which follow one another with bewildering rapidity is safeguarded at every point by the dominating influence of quality."
