Increased Business Forces Moon To Take 200,000 Sq. Ft. More Space Publication: Automotive Daily News Dateline: St. Louis, Missouri Date: 27 August 1925 Topic: Moon

St. Louis, Aug. 26.—The large number of orders for both Moon and Diana cars on hand at the Moon plant and the subsequent large volume of shipments has made necessary the acquisition of additional manufacturing and shipping facilities. The leasing of the plant at Douglass Street and the Terminal railroad tracks, formerly occupied by the Broderick and Bascom Rope Company, has been under advisement for some time by Moon officials and just recently negotiations for this building were completed, the plant being now occupied by the manufacturing and shipping division of the Moon Motor Car Company.

Carl Burst, vice-president and works manager, who acted for the company, when asked about this addition to the Moon plant, said: “The acquisition by our company of the Broderick & Bascom plant, which has about 200,000 square feet of floor space, will enable us to handle advantageously a much larger volume of shipments than we are now handling and in a much shorter time, as the shipping and manufacturing facilities of this plant are excellent. The Broderick & Bascom plant, which is about one block long and a one-story building, and its close proximity, practically makes it a unit of our present manufacturing facilities. This plant is served by the Terminal Railroad, having a shipping dock approximately 400 feet long, enabling us to load approximately 100 additional automobiles a day.

“The shipping division of the company now has access to four railroads for loading instead of the one track which was available before the acquisition of the Broderick & Bascom plant. Shipments of Moon cars for the last six months have been the heaviest in the history of this company, and it has been a problem for our main plant to handle such an unusual volume of cars. However, we feel that with the additional floor space in the plant just leased we will be a in a position to take care of shipments much more rapidly than heretofore. The Broderick & Bascom plant is moderly equipped for both manufacturing and shipping, and the fact that it is a daylight plant and all on one floor is a tremendous advantage to us.”