Outing . Factories of the George N. Pierce Company. $i,000,000. The second of these has asix-acre factory to complete its Maxwell-Briscoe Company, which wasorganized in 1903, has two factories, eachof which employs 600 men, and one ofwhich occupies 117,000 square feet of thetown where it is built. George Pierce,who organized a company in 1901, has tohave seven and one-half acres for hismanufacturing plant, and the ThomasCompany, which in 1905 produced 420 cars, in 1907 had almost tripled its pro-duction to 1,200 cars. Col. Albert Pope, who came from bi-cycles to motor cars in 1895,

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Outing . Factories of the George N. Pierce Company. $i,000,000. The second of these has asix-acre factory to complete its Maxwell-Briscoe Company, which wasorganized in 1903, has two factories, eachof which employs 600 men, and one ofwhich occupies 117,000 square feet of thetown where it is built. George Pierce,who organized a company in 1901, has tohave seven and one-half acres for hismanufacturing plant, and the ThomasCompany, which in 1905 produced 420 cars, in 1907 had almost tripled its pro-duction to 1,200 cars. Col. Albert Pope, who came from bi-cycles to motor cars in 1895, now headsthe company, which has six factories in asmany different cities. The factory atHartford, Conn., alone has a floor spaceof 400,000 square feet, and engines whichhave a total of 775-horse power. A score of cities have become greaterfactors in the business world because of. The Pope Manufacturing Company plant in Toledo. 218

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