In taking up the manufacturing problem the first step was to divide the existing responsible airplane plants between the Army and Navy, following the general rule that a single plant should confine its work to the needs of one Government department only. There were, of course, exceptions to this rule. This division gave to the Army the plants of the-- Curtiss Aeroplane & Motor Corporation, Buffalo, N. Y. Standard Aircraft Corporation, Elizabeth, N. J. Thomas-Morse Aircraft Corporation, Ithaca, N. Y. Wright-Martin Aircraft Corporation, Los Angeles, Calif. Sturtevant Aeroplane Co., Boston, Mass. The factories which fell to the Navy were those of the-- Curtiss Aeroplane & Motor Corporation, Buffalo, N. Y. The Burgess Co., Marblehead, Mass. L. W. F. (Lowe, Willard & Fowler) Engineering Co., College Point, Long Island. Aeromarine Engineering & Sales Co., New York. Gallaudet Aircraft Corporation, New York. Boeing Airplane Co., Seattle, Wash. Of these concerns, Curtiss, Standard, Burgess, L. W. F., Thomas-Morse, and Wright-Martin were the only ones which had ever built more than 10 machines. These factories were quite insufficient in themselves to carry out the enterprise. Therefore it became necessary to create other airplane plants. Two new factories thereupon sprang into existence under Government encouragement. The largest producer of automobile bodies was the Fisher Body Co., at Detroit, Mich. The manufacture of automobile bodies is akin to the manufacture of airplanes to the extent that each is a fabrication of accurate, interchangeable wood and sheet-steel parts. The Fisher organization brought into the enterprise not only machinery and buildings but a skilled organization trained in such production on a large scale. At Dayton, Ohio, the Dayton-Wright Airplane Corporation was created. With this company was associated Orville Wright, and its engineering force was built up around the old Wright organization. A number of immense buildings which had been recently erected for other purposes were at once utilized in this new undertaking. As an addition to these two large sources of supply, J. G. White & Co. and J. G. Brill & Co., the well-known builders of street cars, formed the Springfield Aircraft Corporation at Springfield, Mass. Also certain forward-looking men on the Pacific coast created in California several airplane plants, some of which ultimately became satisfactory producers of training planes.