Report Outline
Automobile Production in 1928
Special Focus
The release of accumulated demand by the introduction of the long-awaited Model A Ford car, December 2, promises a production of American automobiles during 1928 that will exceed all previous records. The best available estimates indicate a total production in the neighborhood of 4,800,000 passenger cars and trucks during the next twelve months. The prosperity to be enjoyed by the automobile industry barring an industrial depression from causes at present unforeseen should have a stimulating effect not only upon those branches of manufacture which are closely allied with it, but upon all American industry.
| Year |
Total Production (including Fords) |
Ford Production |
Automobile Registrations |
| 1909 |
127,731 |
10,660 |
294,000 |
| 1910 |
187,000 |
19,051 |
427,700 |
| 1911 |
210,000 |
34,979 |
677,000 |
| 1912 |
378,000 |
76,150 |
1,010,400 |
| 1913 |
485,000 |
181,951 |
1,248,000 |
| 1914 |
569,000 |
264,972 |
1,769,000 |
| 1915 |
893,000 |
283,161 |
2,495,000 |
| 1916 |
1,584,000 |
534,108 |
3,585,000 |
| 1917 |
1,869,000 |
785,433 |
4,992,000 |
| 1918 |
1,154,000 |
708,355 |
6,106,000 |
| 1919 |
1,876,000 |
939,434 |
7,546,000 |
| 1920 |
2,007,000 |
1,074,336 |
9,206,000 |
| 1921 |
1,686,000 |
1,013,958 |
10,506,000 |
| 1922 |
2,659,000 |
1,131,333 |
12,364,000 |
| 1923 |
4,087,000 |
2,089,777 |
15,233,000 |
| 1924 |
3,617,000 |
1,993,419 |
17,700,000 |
| 1325 |
4,337,000 |
1,990,995 |
19,884,000 |
| 1926 |
4,480,000 |
1,447,915 |
22,047,000 |
| 1927 (Jan,-Oct.) |
3,241,000 |
(estimated) 400,000 |
(est, July 1)23,590,000 |
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Production of automobiles during the first ten months of the present year was short of the production of the corresponding period of last year by more than 750,000 units. The full production for the current year will probably not be much in excess of 3,500,000, if that figure is reached. For 1928, some leaders in the automobile industry forecast a production as high as 5,000,000 cars and trucks. If the more conservative estimate of 4,800,000 units is fulfilled, the new year's production will show an increase of about 7 per cent over the peak of 1926, and the automobile industry should enjoy one of the most prosperous years in its history.
Effects of Ford Company Shut-Down
The appearance of the fifteen millionth Model T Ford, which left the assembly line May 26, 1927, marked the virtual passing of the familiar planetary transmission type “flivver” From the end of May on the curtailment of production by the Ford Motor Company, which had begun earlier in the year, became progressively greater, and before the summer was well under way production had ceased entirely. The following months witnessed the expenditure of many millions of dollars by the Ford Company on new machinery and the reconditioning of plants for production of the new Model A,1 but the temporary cessation of output caused hundreds of thousands of persons in many parts of the country to find themselves without employment. |
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