. Electric railway journal . onths ofthis experience and without being able, even with the both the motor car and the trailer are stationed em-ployees of the railway company, the man at the motorcar being a car starter who dispatches the cars atregular intervals. During the rush-hour peaks in theevening this interval is about thirty seconds. The em-ployees form in two lines, the line nearer the track en-tering the front car and the other the trailer. Whenthe starter decides that a car is to leave he steps inbehind the last passenger on the steps, the man at thetrailer car door, who is watching
. Electric railway journal . onths ofthis experience and without being able, even with the both the motor car and the trailer are stationed em-ployees of the railway company, the man at the motorcar being a car starter who dispatches the cars atregular intervals. During the rush-hour peaks in theevening this interval is about thirty seconds. The em-ployees form in two lines, the line nearer the track en-tering the front car and the other the trailer. Whenthe starter decides that a car is to leave he steps inbehind the last passenger on the steps, the man at thetrailer car door, who is watching for this move, doingthe same. These two men see that the car doors areclosed and the car starts on its trip. For the first week or two of this operation there weresome difficulties in keeping the men in line, but afterthe Ford Company had discharged some of the mostobstreperous of its men, the employees began to rea-lize that it was to their advantage to line up and toboard the cars in an orderly fashion and in their proper. SCENES ON WOODWARD AVENUE, DETROIT, SHOWING MANNER OF LOADING CARS AT THE FORD MOTOR COMPANYS WORKS DURING THE AFTERNOON RUSH HOURS assistance of special police officers and carhouse em-ployees, to develop any semblance of order, the com-pany appealed to the Ford Motor Company for co-opera-tion. As a result a plan has been put into effect whichhas given very satisfactory results. The operation ofthe plan is shown in the accompanying photographs. Now between the hours of p. m. and p. are handled at the Ford plant approximately 30,-000 to 40,000 employees of the plant, and this with goodorder and dispatch. The benefits of a systematic andjust loading plan are now so apparent to the men them-selves that they would hesitate before going back tothe old way even if given the opportunity. The pic-tures show the loading only on Woodward Avenue, butthe same arrangement is in effect at four or five otherpoints on the streets and on the companys own
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