Air, Light and Efficiency Showing Influence of Sash Types and Building Design . (Ji- -- _ -iii ,fM, Willys-Overland Co., Toledo, O. Building 45. Messrs. Mills, Rhines, Bellman &Nordhoff, Architects. The sawtooth roof is lighted and ventilated by lines of PondContinuous Sash. Lupton Steel Sash, Counterbalanced Type, is used in side manv of the Overland buildings, this is built around light courts. See page 24. Dont leave its regulation to chance! 23 »^, 4 ? AIR, LIGHT AND EFFICIENCY The Willys-Overland Factory Although the single-story Pond Truss building is ideallysuited to the aver
Air, Light and Efficiency Showing Influence of Sash Types and Building Design . (Ji- -- _ -iii ,fM, Willys-Overland Co., Toledo, O. Building 45. Messrs. Mills, Rhines, Bellman &Nordhoff, Architects. The sawtooth roof is lighted and ventilated by lines of PondContinuous Sash. Lupton Steel Sash, Counterbalanced Type, is used in side manv of the Overland buildings, this is built around light courts. See page 24. Dont leave its regulation to chance! 23 »^, 4 ? AIR, LIGHT AND EFFICIENCY The Willys-Overland Factory Although the single-story Pond Truss building is ideallysuited to the average manufacturing plant employing much skilledlabor, there will always be conditions under which the multiplestor\- building must be used. High land values, In particular, makeone-story construction prohibitively costly; and inability to securethe right site ma> lead to the same Pond A-framcs in roof ol light court in one of the Willys-Overland buildings. Almostthe entire roof area of the light court is axailable for light and ventilation. The Willys-Overland factory in Toledo is located in a built-updistrict which restricts its lateral growth. Yet the enormousgrowth of its sales had to be met. The most intensi^•e methods ofmanufacture, coupled with more than ordinary skill, were necessary,and with them a floor area amounting now to more than lOO acres 24 IIol^ adverse conditions were successfully met D A \ I D L U P T O N S SONS C O M P A \ Y which gives a capacity ex-ceeding 1000 0\erland and\Aillys-Knight cars per the conditionsstated, multiple story con-struction was necessary;and, as a large fraction ofthe total work demandedboth skill and speed, theproblem \\as to utilize tothe maximum the air andlight available. In working out this prob-lem the first step was torestrict both the height andwidth of the buildings, inordernottocut off light fr
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