| CAR GIANTS 2 (1783 words) |
 | The Studebakers of South Bend, Indiana, convinced that wagons were on the way out, made a few cars on their own and acted as sales agent for a shoestring company called E-M-F, which had made $1,600,000 on 8,312 automobiles during the first seventeen months of its existence. |
| In the late Eighties he made himself a steam car that ran, hoping to pull his own plow with it, but was forced to discard it as unsafe. |
| The Pope Manufacturing Co. of Hartford had organized the production of bicycles and electric cars by assigning individuals to single repetitive tasks; Henry Leland of Cadillac had pioneered in the matter of interchangeable parts; and Olds and Durant were both ahead of Ford in making lavish use of suppliers. |
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