The factory turned out much more than fifty cars per week during the latter part of May and was rapidly catching up with the schedule, until the supply of accumulated parts was used up and the assembling departments were limited to the rate at which parts could be produced in the machine shop. By making every possible effort in the machine shop, the weekly rate of seventy sets of parts was exceeded, and the curve shows that during June and July the rate of shipping automobiles exceeded the schedule rate to such an extent that by the end of the third week the factory had caught up with the schedule production asked for by the sales department. There was, however, a slump in the factory output about the first of August, and it was not until the middle of August that the factory was able to furnish the desired quota of automobiles regularly.

A conference held between the sales manager and the factory manager in September resulted in a statement from the sales manager

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to the effect that he could sell all the automobiles that the factory could produce by the end of the year. The factory manager was told to go ahead as fast as he wished and turn out all the cars he could up to a total of three thousand five hundred cars. The schedule line was accordingly changed from the second week in October, by drawing the line so that it came out at three thousand five hundred cars at the end of the year. It will be noticed that, though the factory had a setback due to delayed material in the second week in October, it was able to exceed the new schedule during the early part of November and it made the three thousand five hundred cars by the end of the year as requested.