Picture continued on next 

 Some of the finished boats ready for inspection. Each boat was thoroughly tested in the St. Lawrence 

 River before being accepted. Arranged as in the photograph the five hundred and fifty boats 



and wash basins, 11,550 ventilator cowls, 

 1,650 toilets, 325,000 ft. of wire rope of 

 various kinds and 450,000 pounds of paint, 

 varnish and putty. 



Will Every Coast Dweller Own a 

 Motor-Boat? 



In the assembling operation alone more 

 than 3,000 men were employed, and about 

 9,000 others were scattered in the various 

 workshops fabricating the material before 

 it was sent to the main plant. This is the 

 first time that the principles of standardiza- 

 tion, division of labor, and progressive 

 assembling 

 have ever 

 been applied 

 with any 

 thoroughness 

 to shipbuild- 

 ing. There is 

 no reason, 

 however, as 

 this success- 

 ful experi- 

 ment proves, 

 why motor- 

 boats cannot 

 be turned out 

 cheaply 

 enough to 

 make them 

 as available 

 to the aver- 



age citizen as is the popular-priced car. 

 The movement toward standardization 

 began in 1905, when Mr. Sutphen's com- 

 pany built 120 twenty-one-foot mine-yawls 

 for the United States War Department. 

 The same company two years later built 

 33 thirty-foot mine layers on standard 

 lines, and during the next six years turned 

 out no thirty-six foot power life boats for 

 the United States life-saving service. 

 Probably the largest motor-boats ever 

 built according to uniform design were two 

 98-foot yachts, made in 1910. Others who 

 have made experiments along the same line 

 are a company 

 that turned 

 out a number 

 of thirty- 

 footers, and 

 another that 

 has been 

 building 

 twenty- foot 

 steel motor- 

 boats in fairly 

 large quanti- 

 ties on stan- 

 d.ard pat- 

 terns. 



It should 

 not be imagin- 

 ed that these 



About fifty operations were involved, each requiring 

 a separate gang of men. Here is the "ribbing gang" 



subm a rine 

 chasers built 



