The Iron Age 1935-09-05: Vol 136 Iss 10

tren, 0. VATING Nationa! Britain Britain t, Conn, he. urgh. lo, Olilo. icago. Ohio. tsburgh. ranciseo, mn tsburgh. Ohio. “hicago. id Co., inton, 0. nton, 0. 0., The. Phila. N.Y. hanoels South Conn. keepsie, Erle . lo, O. cago. Obie. Long South South lonn. eepsie. South Erie ton, 0. South South ion, O. at South Erle ion, 0. CHESTNUT AND STREETS, PHILADELPHIA, PA. Sales 239 WEST 39TH STREET NEW YORK, Owned, Published and Copyrighted CHILTON COMPANY (Incorporated) Executive and Publication Offices, Chestnut and 56th Sts., Philadelphia, MUSSELMAN, President FRITZ FRANK, Vice-President FREDERIC STEVENS, Vice-President JOSEPH GEORGE GRIFFITHS, TERHUNE, ERNEST HASTINGS, BARBER, Treasurer JOHN BLAIR MOFFETT, Secretary FRITZ FRANK, President VAN DEVENTER Editor Managing News Editor Machinery Editor Editor Emeritus Washington Chicago Cleveland Pittsburgh Detroit Boston Cincinnati Vol. 136, No. Rebuilt Prosperity with Improved Machinery........... Appraising Machine Tool Replacement Possibilities..... Keeping Eye Your Equipment Investment........ Why Not Profit from Modernization Machine Tools the Present and the Future.......... Metal Cutting Tools Keep Pace with Progress.......... Broaching, Planing and Shaping Metal Pressing and Forming Dealers Serve Machine Tool Industry 234 August Pig Production 277 Rate Activity Capital 278 Statistics Metal Working 280 Construction and Equipment 302 BAUR, General Advertising Manager DIX, Manager, Reader Service Member, Audit Bureau Circulations ADVERTISING Member, Associated Business Papers Emerson Findley, 311 Union Bidg., Cleveland Published every Thursday. Subscrip- Hottenstein, Otis Chicago tion Pricet United States and Pos- Lewis, Woodward Detroit sessions, Mexico, Ouba, $6.00; Can- Bidg.. Chestaut W. C. Sweeter, 239 West 39th New York mee * q i 3 t — A if if fy if | itt ' Erie ton, O. in? a Ht IRON AGE, September 1935 almost century Ryerson has been saving time for thousands steel users, the quick shipment steel and allied products. Today, with enlarged stocks covering everything from the finest stainless and special alloys down ordinary mild steel— with special cutting equipment and the fastest dispatching methods, Ryerson can assure customers still greater saving time. The wide range products carried, permits selec- tion the steel best suited each particular application. You can concentrate purchases making one order cover all your steel and allied lines, for Ryerson stocks also include welding rod, copper, brass, babbitt and allied products. And course, immediate shipment assured. Write for the Ryerson Stock Immediate Steel. Joseph Ryerson Son, Inc., Chicago, Milwaukee, St. Louis, Cincinnati, Detroit, Cleveland, Buffalo, Boston, Philadelphia, Jersey City. { | 4 4 j INDUSTR CLEVELAN 1935 THE IRON AGE, September SEPTEM HERE challenging statement: One the most important factors our national prosperity will new and vastly improved produc- tion machinery. “Paradox,” exclaims mistic individual firmly that the machine has al- ways thrown people out work, and that ended throwing the whole nation out employment through overproduction. never experienced state gen- eral overproduction the United States. true that have plenty railroads and perhaps too many coal mines well problem disposing certain agricultural surpluses. true that even the palmy days 1929 had, certain lines, excess producing capacity. But this not general state over- production any more than the mil- lions few very rich men would constitute general state excess consuming power. cannot pos- sibly have excess producing | ork machine age has not yet arrived and there has never, even our palm- iest days, been state general overproduction America! This is, indeed, challenging statement. But facts. Those who claim that the machine has reached its apex use have their eyes fixed upon highly dustries. They fail appre- ciate that not what power America until every one who able and willing work ciency food, clothing, housing and reasonable measure com- mand what term luxuries. Even were able satisfy all our 120 million people with re- gard necessities—which are not—the field luxuries ° ° ° STILWELL President, National Machine Tool Builders’ Association ° have but what have not that determines the future possibilities machine utili- zation. The machine age will not reach its maturity until the average man able satisfy all his needs and many his wants. And that time has not yet arrived America. are reaching toward today, however, rebuilding our prosperity with improved machines. would enable the machine dertake new work for many years come. The time-worn argument that machine displaces hands the performance some specific task obviously truism. But that condemns those hands idleness not. This has been abundantly proven during the 125 years the ° so-cailed Machine Age. all that time there has been technologi- cal unemployment noticeable ex- tent duration. the contrary. growing industry has exhibited insatiable demand for skilled work- ers—a demand that has usually been far greater than the supply. This state affairs hardly sup- ports the contention that the ma- chines directly cause unemploy- ment. Growth, industry Na- ture, matter discarding old cells and adding new ones. New industries are constantly being cre- ated advances science, inven- tion and technology, and new em- ployment created these new industries, largely through mech- anization. Recently the National Industrial Conference Board has revealed the fact that new industries which did not exist all 1879 ab- sorbed almost one-seventh all labor employed manufacturing 1929. New industrial cells re- placed old ones and the new were bigger and better. For who one statistically STILWELL minded there plenty evidence that mechanization does not breed scarcity jobs. During the years the great- est activity the machine, 1899 1933, the data assembled such authoritative bodies the National Bureau Economic Re- search and National Industria! Conference Board show con- spicuous fluctuations employ- ment. While the population rose from crease two-thirds, the percent- age those gainfully employed fluctuated narrowly between 37.7 and 40.2 until after 1929. Mean- while the percentage factory workers varied between 6.3 and 8.6, | fie” } one ries. all are lone the last being the figure for 1919 holdover, which fell the following year 6.4. examination the figures, then, reveals surprisingly steady ratio factory workers and all gainfully employed the rapidly increasing population until the period 1931 date. attempt analysis the that de- pression period would require far more space than here available. is, moreover, unnecessary. Most intelligent people realize this time that the depression was man- made, not machine made. difficult, therefore, per- ceive any real cogency the un- employment arguments the anti- machine forces. clear the however, there somewhat fatalistic ar- gument consider, namely: That things will never the same again; other words, that this period marks the end epoch. that argument valid, this day ours would have the end conceivable that the appetites, wants and demands, created the machine, should suddenly cease exist that new cycle 22—THE IRON AGE, September 1935 Dark Ages should descend upon the earth. the experience the past any guide, the curves industrial and will eventually resume their ascent the point where they turned downward into the valley the depression. They are headed, quite decidedly, that direction today. takes great deal more than few years extremely bad busi- ness, however widespread, halt the onward sweep the genius mankind expressed such unprecedented phenomenon the Machine Age. Granted, then, that our machine- made civilization destined for long time come, let examine some the reasons for our initial statement proved production machinery will important factor the res- toration American prosperity. New Machines for New Era improved production ma- chinery meant not only refine- ments present models, but en- tirely new creations perform machines are capable. The ma- chines the immediate future thus have two great fields de- velopment before them. One perform present operations much more efficiently, hence much less cost. The other perform op- erations not now executed ma- chines all. in-these two fields development that the po- tentiality the machine, builder prosperity, its greatest. first the effect sweeping increase the efficiency performance production ma- chines, from the business-building viewpoint. reasonable esti- mate that half the production ma- chinery the United States has reached the replacement point its progress toward complete obso- lescence. some industries, in- deed, the forms machines used are obsolete even though the ma- chines themselves may com- paratively new. The equipment the textile industry typical. Ex- cept for some minor and few major improvements, the machin- ery used the average cotton mill has not changed great deal years. The last drastic change was the substitution the present ro- tary cards for the old-fashioned railroad cards more than half ago. Machine Designers Have Been Busy The replacement the obsolete and obsolescent machines other industries has begun creased pace business picks up. Meanwhile, the machine designers have not been idle during the de- pression. Most them have taken advantage the opportunity create new models and refine old ones. When these machines work they may well revolutionize cost and method industry. The other field cost reduction the machine large one, in- cluding nothing less than the total human activities, not now aided performed machinery. One would think that its potentialities for mechanical application had been pretty well reduced now and that there are few paying streaks left for the inventor. Let us see. There the building industry— one the three largest—$6,000,- Buildings have changed great deal, some respects, since Baby- lon Rome, but building methods have remained astonishingly primi- tive. still use brick and lay them hand; plaster and trowel coat coat; paint and brush slowly and laboriously. still order lot boards and mea- sure, mark, cut, fit and nail them throughout the building operation. Courageous attempts have been made the direction mecha- nizing the construction ings. They have succeeded, de- spite the immense inertia our building habits. much greater measure success may ex- pected when the attention ma- chine designers focused more intensely upon the possibilities the building industry. few years ago revolutionary 4 large scale were made possible collective farming with the aid highly improved machinery owned common the operators groups farms. There room for further mechanization the planting, cultivation and harvest- ing the immense acreage the non-perishable grain and fiber crops. The machines, some them still slumbering the minds their inventors, will ready when the growers perfect their or- ganization for raising and market- ing their crops. There is, moreover, hitherto untouched field for the machine, the working perishable crops, vegetables and fruits. Even casual observer, driving through the flat, truck-gardening acres around our great cities, must impressed the laborious meth- ods cultivation—the groups men, women and children, toiling the hot sun, plucking weeds, removing insects, loosening the soil picking fruit and berries. Surely there must some way doing all these difficult chores me- chanically. Inventive doubtless find the answer that (CONTINUED PAGE 97) THE IRON AGE, September 1935—23 | Plant Expansion and Equipment Buying Interest Heavier Machine HILE there has been great change the rate demand for machine tools during the week, interest has strengthened the heavier tools such planers and boring mills. These lines naturally respond more slowly replacement cycles than the lighter types tools, because their inherently longer life. The fact that interest increasing these lines therefore another indication that the mod- ernization move this country decided reality. Builders expect that the next two weeks which are just before the big Cleveland exhibition will show lull actual buying, but from the rate inquiry being maintained, there will plenty business done during and following the show. NORTH ATLANTIC Electrolux, Inc., 500 Fifth Avenue, New York, maker of vacuum cleaners, parts, etc., has let general contract to H. K. Ferguson Co., West Forty-third Street, for two new two-story additions plant on Tomac Avenue, Greenwich, Conn., 100 x 141 ft., and 61 x 64 ft. respectively, the first used for new factory unit and other structure for office and operating service. Cost over $100,000 with equipment. Johns-Manville Corpn., East Fortieth Street, New York, has let general contract Peterson Weeks, Inc., North Genesee Street, Waukegan, for two one-story additions plant Greenwood Avenue, Waukegan, 650 ft., and 100 200 ft. respectively. Cost close $200,- 000 with equipment. New York Central System, 466 Lexing- ton Avenue, New York, White, pur- chasing agent, asks bids until Sept. for quantity steel rails and maintenance way supplies (Serial Contract No. 10). Texas Co., 135 East Forty-second Street, New York, plans two new additions oil refining plant Port Arthur, Tex., used new solvent refining plant and solvent de-waxing division respective- ly, with capacities 2000 and 1500 bbl. per day, order noted. Additions are scheduled for completion early in 1936. Cost over $500,000 with machinery. Dodge plant superintendent Port Arthur. Board of Warren County Supervisors, Lake George, N. Y., plans new power plant vicinity Bolton, Cost over $80,000 with equipment and electrical dis- tributing lines. Utilities Engineering Co., Columbia Place, Albany, Y., consulting engineer. Signal Supply Officer, Army Base, Brook- lyn, asks bids until Sept. 3 for quantity and carriers (Circular 16); until 62—THE IRON AGE, August 29, 1935 Sept. 9 for quantity of radio control boxes (Circular 8); until Sept. for quantity of switches, plugs, etc. (Circular 14), for quantity fuses (Circular 18). Nicholas Laundry Service, Inc., New York, organized Max Glasel, 200 St. Nicholas Avenue, and associates, has leased eight-story and basement building at 138- West 124th Street, site 100 ft., and will remodel and equip for new me- chanical laundry. Cost over $30,000 with machinery. Department Water Supply, Gas and Electricity, Municipal Building, New York, will make extensions and improvements mechanical and repair shops different parts city, and similar work connec- tion with automobile service and garage buildings for municipal cars; a new one- story forge and blacksmith shop will built. Fund $547,023 has been secured through Federal aid for buildings and equipment. Bureau Supplies and Accounts, Navy Department, Washington, asks bids until Sept. for two electric welding sets and spare parts, and 1000 ft. welding (Schedule 5799), for 760 oxygen and acetylene outlet regulators (Schedule 5812), for one water-cooled, air-operated spot welder (Schedule 5774), for 1076 water gage glass fittings (Schedule 5815), for 15,000 jack knives (Schedule 5839); until Sept. for two torsion meters and spare parts (Schedule 5836), for Brooklyn Navy Yard; until Sept. 6 for quantity of radia- tor valves, echeck valves and thermostatic traps (Schedule 5806), for Brooklyn, Phila- delphia and Charleston navy yards; until Sept. for motor-operated (Schedule 5802), for Brooklyn and Phila- delphia yards. Quartermaster Supply Office, Army base, Brooklyn, asks bids until Sept. 3 for 400 rolls copper wire cloth and 10 rolls alumi- num wire cloth (Circular 55). Gottfried Krueger Brewing Co., mont Avenue, Newark, J., soon takes bids for new seven-story and basement ad- dition at Belmont and West Kinney Ave- and tor other service. Cost close $185,- 000 with machinery. Waldemar Mortensen, 103 Park Avenue, New York, is engineer Board Education, Mountain N. J., plans manual training department new two-story junior high school Briarcliffe Road, for which bids have been asked general contract. Cost about $220,000. Financing has been arranged through Federal aid. Tooker Marsh, 101 Park Avenue, New York, are architects. Quartermaster Depot, Twenty-first and Johnston Streets, Philadelphia, asks bids until Sept. 4 for 50 kegs wire nails, 10 kegs common nails, and six kegs nails (Circular 46). Birdsboro Steel Foundry Machine Co., Birdsboro, Pa., manufacturer of rolling presses, has leased former Scott Foun- dry Reading Iron Co., Reading, Pa., idle for past two years, and will occupy for new branch plant. Bureau Supplies and Accounts, Navy Department, Washington, asks Sept. for one hydraulic power press, complete with motor-driven pump, pre- filling tank, piping, ete. (Schedule 5827), for one carburizing vertical retort gas furnace (Schedule 5803), for Philadelphia Navy Yard; quantity smoke indicators and spare parts for steam boilers (Sched- ule 5775), for Philadelphia and Brooklyn yards. Central School Board, Kendall, Y.. plans manual training department in new two-story high and grade school. Cost about $225,000. Bley Lyman, 505 Dela- ware Avenue, Buffalo, are architects. Corpn., Lackawanna, Y., has been or- ganized Kendall Smith and John both Perry, Y., manufac- ture steel tanks and other steel plate products. ENGLAND Westinghouse Electric Mfg. Co., East Springfield, Mass., plans extensions and improvements local plant, creased production electric refrigerator manufacturing division, including installa- tion additional equipment. Headquarters are East Pittsburgh, Pa. McKesson Robbins, Inc., Grasmere Avenue, Fairfield, Conn., has asked bids general contract for new addition. Cost over $40,000 with equipment. Albert Kahn, Inc., New Center Building, Detroit, ar- chitect and Gulf Refining Co., Seventh and Grant Streets, Pittsburgh, has approved plans for new bulk oil storage and distributing plant Burlington, Vt., comprising main warehouse unit, tanks with capacity 7 ii J 7 | : | : | | | | | | | 7 | | | | | | | | be | | | | i Upholstery Springs Flat Spring Motors then Lock Springs and all other Spring Purposes When springs and wire forms are vital the success- ful functioning your product, the quality and characteristics the wire used for making them the greatest importance you. Wickwire Spencer Steel Company has specialized the making all types spring wire and springs for over half cen- tury. Their experience producing wire that forms more perfectly, that meets all requirements use and gives longer life, available you. Invite the Wissco Engineer teil his story. will cost you nothing and will probably save you money. WICKWIRE SPENCER STEEL COMPANY New York City; Buffalo, Chicago, Worcester; Pacific Coast Headquarters: San Francisco; Warehouses: Los Angeles, Seattle, Portland. Export Sales Department: New York City. Wickwire Spencer manufactures High and Low Carbon Wires— Machinery Spring Wire—Reed various tempers, grades and finishes—for your specific purpose. Bar—Screw Stock—Armature Binding—Brush—Card—Florist soft annealed Basic Bessemer Wires— —Mattress—Shaped—Rope—Welding. Flat Wire Steel, ard-Drawn annealed, oil-tempered Spring Wire, Chrome High Low Carbon—Hard, annealed tempered—Clock Spring anadium Spring Wire Valve Spring Music Clip Pin Steel—Corrosion and Heat Resisting Wires. Consult the Wissco Hook and Eye—Broom—Stapling—Bookbinding— technical man your wire problems, however large small. THE IRON AGE, August 29, 1935—63 x _ a 4 | e e Exclusive features: Balanced Drive, two points diametri- cally opposite. Perfect alignment, maintained all parts rotating around common axis. Automatic Oil Bath Lu- brication. Control rope, push button, outrig con- troller for every hoist. Precision variable speed control for both A.C. and D.C. Variety speeds, types, lifts and ca- pacities precisely suited any service. Write for complete data. SHEPARD NILES CRANE HOIST CORP. 356 Schuyler Avenue, Montour Falls, 3,000,000 gals., and other facilities. Cost over $60,000 with equipment. Board Education, Brunswick, Me., plans manual training department in new three-story and basement high school. Cost about $250,000. Financing being ar- ranged through Federal aid. Coombs Harriman, Lisbon Street, Lewiston, Me., are architects. Fafnir Bearing Co., Orange Street, New Britain, Conn., has taken out a permit for one-story addition steam power house, 20 x 50 ft. School Board, Penacook, H., plans manual training department new two- story high school. Cost about $175,000. Financing will arranged through Fed- eral aid. Wells, Hudson Granger, Main Street, Hanover, H., are architects. SOUTH ATLANTIC Tide Water Power Co., Wilmington. C., plans construction transmission and distributing lines about coun- ties State for rural electrification, total- ing 400 miles, including new power line from Beaufort coast, about miles. Cost over $500,000 with power substations and service facilities. Financing being arranged through Federal aid. Bureau Supplies and Accounts, Navy Department, Washington, asks bids until Sept. for 100 aircraft propeller blades for Pensacola, Fla., Navy Station (Sched- ule 5842). Dayton Rubber Mfg. Co., Dayton, Ohio, has acquired plant and business Mc- Claren Rubber Co., Charlotte, C., and will consolidate with organization. Char- lotte plant will removed main mill dent purchasing company. City Council, Avon Park, Fla., plans new distributing system, with power substation, switching and other 64—THE IRON AGE, August 29, 1935 operating facilities. Cost about $75,000. George Main, Daytona Beach, Fla., consulting engineer. Construction Quartermaster, Naval Air Base, Charleston, C., soon takes bids for new hangar, with shop and reconditioning and other structures local ion. WASHINGTON DIST. Bureau Ordnance, Navy Department, Washington, asks bids until Sept. for quantity liner, tube, gun barrel, hous- ing and other forgings (Circular 174). Purchasing and Holabird Quartermaster Depot, Baltimore, asks bids until Sept. for quantity automobile parts (Circular 28); until Sept. for quantity twist drills, wrenches, pliers, towing chains, screwdrivers, etc. 29). Superintendent, Office, Washington, plans new eight-story and basement plant addition North Capitol and Eighth Streets, 175 384 ft., totaling about 484,000 sq. ft. floor space, for which appropriation $5,885,000 has been authorized for land, building and equipment. Krebs Pigment Color Corpn., Benhill Road, Curtis Bay, Baltimore, has plans for four new onestory additions. Cost over $35,000 with equipment. Company Co., duPont Building, Wilmington, Del. General Purchasing Officer, Panama Canal, Washington, asks bids until Sept. for quantity malleable iron pipe fit- tings, wrought iron steel pipe straps, brass bronze pipe fittings, malleable iron unions, steam hose couplings, gate valves, throttle valves, globe valves, stop cocks and other equipment (Schedule 3083). Bureau Supplies and Accounts, Navy Department, Washington, asks bids until threading and cutting-off machine (Sched- ule 5749), two motor-driven engine lathes (Schedule 5757), one motor-driven geared- head engine lathe (Schedule 5754), quanti- seamless steel tubing (Schedule 5798), for Eastern and Western navy yards; one motor-driven, rotary type fuel oil pump (Schedule 5751), for Sewall’s Point Navy Yard; one 100 kva. spot welding machine, with recorded and electronic timing de- (Schedule 5771), for Washington Navy ard. WESTERN PA. DIST. Erie Metal Specialties Co., Erie, Pa., recently organized Frederick Ziesen- heim, Girard, Pa., and associates, has leased local building Peach Street, and will remodel and equip for new plant for manufacture metal novelties. Gulf Refining Co., Seventh and Grant Streets, Pittsburgh, has approved plans for new bulk oil storage and distributing plant tract land recently acquired on Cape Fear River waterfront, Fayette- ville, C., consist several units, with steel tank facilities for gross ca- pacity of 4,000,000 gals. Cost close to $100,000 with Elkhorn Piney Coal Mining Co., Koppers Building, Pittsburgh, plans new coal-load- ing terminal Wanawha River. Appli- has been made for Federal permis- sion. West Virginia Airways, Inc., Charleston, Va., negotiating with city for ex- pansion in airport facilities, including con- struction hangars, with shop and re- conditioning facilities. Cost over $200,000. SOUTH CENTRAL Barry Distillery Co., Ekron, Ky., plans extensions and improvements local distilling plant, with installation new equipment for increased capacity. Cost over $45,000 with machinery. Director Purchases, TVA, Knoxville, Tenn., asks bids until Sept. for one ll-ton capacity full electric gantry crane for Pickwick Landing power dam. John Wathen Distillery Co., Lebanon, Ky., has plans for new addition plant for storage and distribution, with capacity about 20,000 Cost over $75,000 with equipment. Board Education, Nashville, Tenn., plans training department new two- story and basement high school, for which bids will asked soon general con- tract. about Donald Southgate, Nashville Trust Building, architect. City Council, Lexington, Ky., Charles Fithian, eity manager, plans new hangar municipal airport, with repair and reconditioning facilities. Financing has been arranged through Federal aid. Guyn city engineer charge. Lee County Power Association, Opelika, Ala., plans construction new transmis- sion and electrical distributing lines for service rural districts county, total- ing about miles, with power substation operating facilities. Fund $63,000 being arranged through Federal aid for project. SOUTHWEST Longwear Paint Varnish Co., 301 Broadway, Kansas City, Mo., has asked bids general contract for new one-story addition, 100 ft. Cost about $35,000 with equipment. Clifton Sloan, Ninth Street and Baltimore Avenue, architect. Purchasing Officer, Department In- terior, Washington, asks bids until for eight road plows for Muskogee, Okla. (Proposal 922). Board Trustees, Arkansas State Col- lege, Jonesboro, Ark., soon takes bids revised plans for new power plant, engi- neering building and other structures. Cost over $350,000 with equipment. Mc- Aninch, Pyramid Life Building, Little Rock, Ark., architect. Common Council, Pauls Valley, has plans for new municipal electric light and power plant, and electrical distribut- + 6 wedi | | ; ; | | } | | 1 1 | ‘ i Here Basolit Pickling Tank action! The kind action that demands good tank. Low carbon strip steel travels continuously through this 240 foot tank filled with sulphuric acid and corrosive fumes. the kind service Basolit Tanks are made for because they are NEW YORK PITTSBURGH leak-proof, wear-proof, and they resist all com- mercial acids. This Basolit Pickling Tank was installed the plant The Otis Steel Company Sept. 1932, and average 1600 tons strip steel per week are pickled it. this period there have been maintenance costs. Otis has two other Basolit Pickling Tanks. The performance the first one sold the other two. Why don't you consider the economy pickling the Basolit way? PRODUCTS Buffalo, N.Y. LOS TORONTO, ONT. THE IRON AGE, August 29, 1935—65 | { Torch Ignited. Flame Shut Off. America’s largest production plants use Weldit Gasavers. Cuts cost, eliminates ing system. Cost $257,000 with equipment. Financing has been arranged through Federal aid. Long Co., Colcord Building, Oklahoma City, Okla., are con- sulting engineers. Board Education, Columbia, Mo., plans two new manual training shops, located Jefferson junior high and Hick- man high school respectively. Financing will carried out through Federal aid. Deering Clark, Haden Building, are architects. Common Council, Phillipsburg, Kan., has plans for new municipal electric light and power plant, using Diesel engine-generator units, with electrical distributing system. Fund $120,000 has been secured through Federal aid. Paulette Wilson, Farmers Union Building, Salina, Kan., are consult- ing engineers. City Council, Port Lavaca, Tex., has plans for new municipal cannery and processing plant for fish food. Fund of $140,000 has been secured through Federal aid for building and equipment. Board Education, San Antonio, Tex., plans manual training department new three-story high school north side dis- trict, for which bids will asked soon general contract. Cost about $200,000. Tower, and Adams Adams, Insurance Building, are associated architects Mathews Kenan, Smith-Young Tower, are mechanical engineers. City Council, Temple, Tex., plans new municipal airport on 80 acres, including hangar with repair and reconditioning fa- cilities, oil storage and distributing build- ing, and other field units. Cost over $60,000 with equipment. MICHIGAN DISTRICT Zenith-Detroit Corpn., foot Hart Ave- nue, Detroit, manufacturer carburetors, parts and kindred automotive equipment, has asked bids for new one-story addition, including improvements present plant. Cost about $50,000 with equipment. Leonard Willeke, 16934 Village Lane, architect. Chevrolet Motor Co., 3044 West Grand Boulevard, Detroit, has begun superstruc- ture for new one-story addition branch plant Saginaw, Mich., 740 ft., comprising former crankshaft works General Motors Corpn., and operated equipped for production bumpers, heat- 66—THE IRON AGE, August 29, 1935 idle torch flame hazards, increases production. Price $10.00. Two weeks trial. Send for circular. treating of forgings and kindred parts. Cost over $200,000 with machinery. Gorney Brewing Co., Flint, Mich., re- cently organized, has acquired local build- ing Poplar and Walnut Streets, total- ing about 60,000 sq. ft. floor space, and will remodel and equip for new brewery. Cost over $45,000 with machinery. Edward Gorney, formerly connected with Flint Hill Brewing Co., heads new organization, which capitalized $250,000. Mergraf Oil Refinery, 3757 Bellevue Avenue, Detroit, planning construction two new branch processing plants, one located vicinity New Work and other Los Angeles for East and West coast service respectively, for manu- facture lubricating oil products. Each plant will have capacity about 100,000 gal. per month, and will cost over $75,000 ent. MIDDLE WEST Oscar Hedstrom Pattern Works, 1419 West Carroll Avenue, Chicago, has ac- quired one-story building, 100 125 ft., 4836-42 West Division Street, and will occupy for new machine works and pat- tern shop. Abbott Laboratories, Inc., North Chicago, manufacturer industrial and other chem- ical products, has asked bids general contract for new two-story addition, 80 280 ft. Cost over $100,000 with equip- ment. District Quartermaster, Fort Des Moines, Des Moines, Iowa, asks bids until Sept. for 840 fire shovels, 840 coal hods, 600 stove pokers, ete. (Circular 34). Tobin Packing Co., Inc., Fort Dodge, Iowa, meat packer, has let general con- tract Klinger, Inc., Warnock Building, Sioux City, Iowa, for new two- story and basement addition, ft. Cost about $50,000 with equipment. Tobin president. Recovery Co., Colorado Springs, Colo., Albert Hagen, presi- dent, has plans for new one-story cyanide mill gold-mining properties vicinity of Colorado Springs, to be equipped for handling about 500 tons crude ore one time. Cost about $100,000 with ma- chinery. Financing arranged through RFC. Edward Sweeney, United States National Bank Building, Denver, Colo., consulting engineer charge. United States Engineer Office, Commerce Building, St. Paul, Minn., asks bids until Sept. for power, control and electric systems for lock and dam No. Mis- sissippi River, near Dresbach, Minn., in- cluding transformers and regulators, re- control switch cabinets, limit switches, lock grounding system, dam power feeders, dam conduit system, gaso- line-electric standby station unit with com- plete accessories, air signal equipment. portable lighting units, one hand-operated traveling bridge crane, central control sta- tion feeders and other equipment. Board Education, Glenwood, has let general contract Lonergan Construction Co., 203 North Wabash Ave- nue, Chicago, for one-story addition Glenwood manual training school. Cost about $30,000 with equipment. Edwin Clark, East Huron Street, Chicago, architect. Chapman-Doake Co., East Main Street and Broadway, Decatur, building portion flour and feed- milling plant, recently destroyed fire. Loss close $100,000 with machinery. OHIO AND INDIANA Board Ashland, Ohio, plans new one-story vocational training shop local high school. Fund $65,- 000 being arranged bond issue. National Mortar Supply Co., Wood- ville, near Fremont, Ohio, has approved plans for extensions, including storage bins and mechanical-handling Cost over $100,000 with equipment. Efficient Tool Die Co., 9314 Elizabeth Avenue, Cleveland, has plans for new one and two-story addition, ft. Cost about $30,000 with equipment. Morse Co., 827 Prospect Avenue, are architects and engineers. City Council, Painesville, Ohio, con- sidering new municipal steam power plant for central heating service public build- ings and other structures downtown district. Cost about $150,000 with pipe line distributing system. Financing will arranged through Federal aid. Marsh Wall Tile Co., Dover, Ohio, com- position sheet wall tiling, building portion plant recently de- stroyed fire. Loss over $75,000 with machinery. Air Corps, Patterson Field, Fairfield, Ohio, asks bids until Sept. for one air- plane cylinder grinding machine (Circular American Brass Mfg. Co., 1525 East Forty-ninth Street, Cleveland, has let gen- eral contract Schoeffel, 10425 Baltic Road, for new one-story top addi- tion present plant, 145 ft. Cost close $40,000 with equipment. Contracting Officer, Material Division, Air Corps, Wright Field, Dayton, Ohio, asks bids until Sept. for 30,000 ft. rub- ber-covered flexible cable, 330,000 ft. tinned copper braid, 388,500 ft. aircraft power and lighting cable 113) until Sept. for generator assemblies lots 237 900 (Circular 110), 220,000 ft. high-tension ignition cable (Circular 112), 214 electric drills (Circular 121): until Sept. for quantity automatic airship valve assemblies (Circular 119). Muncie Malleable Foundry Co., Muncie, Ind., plans extensions and modernization in plant, with installation of new equip- ment. Cost about $100,000 with machinery. Southern Indiana Gas Electric Co., Evansville, Ind., plans expansion power plant, with installation equipment, and extensions ments power lines facilities. Cost $851,000 with equipment. Application has been made for permission. Contracting Officer, Quartermaster Corps, Jeffersonville, Ind., asks bids until Sept. 11 for electric drills, grinders, rivet- ing hammers, oxy-acetylene torches, grinders, saws, air and water gun, motor stands, wrenches and other tools (Circular 25). PACIFIC COAST Link Belt Co., 400 Paul Street, San Francisco, has let general contract to Austin Co. California, 516 Eighteenth Street, Oakland, Cal., for extensions and improvements plant. Cost about $25,000. Bureau Supplies and Accounts, Navy Department, Washington, asks bids until pro met wate Only words Armco Electrical Sheet Steel but they mean cost-savings and bigger profits for you Send your electrical sheet steel requirements Armco—for easier, faster and more profitable production equipment the peak efficient performance. There correct Armco grade for every conceivable specification. Behind the 35-year-old experience the pioneer producer electrical sheet steel; the complete metallurgical research facilities; and the modern production equipment that insures quick deliveries entirely satisfactory sheets. glad talk over any problem with you. Just say the word. THIS BOOK EXPLAINS ALL ARMCO GRADES Armco Tran-cor 60: for distribution transformers Armco Tran- cor 66; for power and distribution transformers Armco Tran- cor 72: general transformer work and large generators Armco Intermediate Transformer: general transformer applications Armco Special Electric: for high-efficiency motors and gener- ators Armco Electric: for rotating electrical machinery Armature: for d-c motors Armco Field: for small low-cost motors Armco Radio Grades: for every possible requirement. THE AMERICAN ROLLING MILL COMPANY Offices: Middletown, Ohio District all Key Cities THE IRON AGE, August 29, 1935—67 i i » i i r ogi’ | | THE STARTING POINT CARBON ALLOY AND SPECIAL BASIC ELECTRIC STEELS from selection the melting charge the finished condition forgings furnished your specifica- tions—Smooth Forged, Hollow Bered, Rough Finish Machined. NATIONAL FORGE AND ORDNANCE Co. IRVINE, WARREN COUNTY, Sept. 6 for one motor-driven grinder, tool and cutter machine for Mare Island, Cal., Navy Yard (Schedule 5796); until Sept. for four electric whip hoists and spare parts for Puget Sound, Wash., Navy Yard (Schedule 5746). Ray Becker Sheet Metal Co., Portland, manufacturer of sheet metal products, has leased new one story building, 100 x 120 ft., erected Paige and Borthwick Streets Allen McCurtain, Portland. Cost about $35,000 with machinery. Joseph Heiler, Henry Building, architect charge. Purchasing Officer, Department In- terior, Washington, asks bids until Sept. 4 for 1280 spools galvanized cattle-type barbed wire for Casa Grande, Ariz.; 304 spools barbed wire for Cedar City, Utah; 128 spools barbed wire for Gold Hill, Utah; 27,5¢0 steel fence posts and 600 Ib. gal- vanized staples (Proposal 895). Municipal Light Department, 302 City Hall, Pasadena, Cal., Benjamin Lanty, general manager, asks bids until Sept. 5 for quantity of metal-clad switch- gear for Maryland power substation. Bureau of Supplies and Accounts, Navy Department, Washington, asks bids until Aug. 27 for one four-wheel type indus- trial tractor for Oakland, Cal. (Schedule 5746): until Sept. 3 for 60 portable elec- tric drills for Mare Island, Cal., Navy Yard (Schedule 5761). Linde Air Products Co., 2305 East Fifty- second £treet, Los Angeles, has let general Austin Co. California, 777 East Washington Street, for new one-story addition for storage and distribution, 60 x 100 ft. Cost about $30,000 with equip- ment. Beringer’s Winery, St. Helena (Napa County), Cal., has let weneral con- tract Harry Thorsen, 1519 Kearney Street, for new distilling plant, comp ising three main one-story units, 36 x 85 ft.. for distillery; 25 x 85 ft., for fermenting department; and 100 ft., for storage and distribution. Cost close to $45,000 with equipment. Metrcpolitan Water District, 306 West Third Street, Los Angeles, asks bids until Dec. 3 for motor-driven centrifugal pump- ing units and auxiliary equipment for main pumping stations on Colorado’ River Aqueduct (Specification 116). Wheeler-Osgood Corpn., Tacoma, Wash., plans rebuilding portion plywood and hardwood mill recently destroyed by fire, 68—THE IRON AGE, August 29, 1935 including shops, boiler plant units. Loss over $500,000 with equipment. Board Education, City and County San Francisco, City Hall, Civic Center. plans new one-story machine shop at George Washington school. Cost about $25,000 with equipment. Miller Pflueger, 580 Market Street, are architects. FOREIGN St. Thomas Bronze Co., First Avenue, St. Thomas, Ont., has plans for two new one-story additions for which superstruc- tures will begin September, 100 ft. and ft. Cost over $50,000 with equipment. William Dalziel general manager. Mond Nickel Co., Ltd., London, England, affiliated with International Nickel Co., Wall Street, New York, plans new addi- tion plant Clydach, Wales, expansion refinery that place; new experimental and research laboratory wil! constructed Birmingham, England. Entire project will cost about $700,000 with equipment. City Council, Johannesburg, South Africa, plans additions to municipal arti- ficial gas plant, including installation three new 1,500,000 cu. ft. capacity gas holders, electrostatic precipitation equipment with capacity 6,000,000 cu. ft. daily, boilers and other equipment. Cost over $400,000. Proposed to ask bids soon. Industrie Chimiche Meridionali, Milan, Italy, manufacturer industriai chemicals, plans addition to plant, com- prising several one-story units for large increase capacity. Cost over with machinery. concession for project has been secured. Acid-Resisting Metals, Ltd., England, recently organized, taken Dunston, near Gateshead-on-Tyne, Eng land, idle for a number of years past, and will remodel and equip for new works for production acid-resisting alloys. Link-Belt Co., and subsidiaries, for the six months ended June 30, report net profit of $530,584. This is equal to 62c. a share the common stock after dividends preferred stock. the corresponding period 1934, net profit was $378,739. Trade Notes Ashton Valve Co. announces the appoint- ment the Steam Equipment Manufac- turing Co., Jenkins Building, Pittsburgh, distributors the Pitts- burgh area for the Ashton safety and re- lief valves, pressure gages, etc. Falls Clutch Machinery Co. has moved its New York City branch, managed from 172 Chambers Street Warren Street. The company owned and operated the Kent Ma- chine Co., Cuyahoga Falls, Ohio. Wrought Washer Mfg. Co. Milwaukee, manufacturers washers and stampings, through its Los Angeles sales agents, the Western Washer Mfg. Co., expanding its range service California and ad- jacent territory. The Western Washer Mfg. Co. moving this month into larger quarters located 2111 St., Los Angeles, California, where new ducing machinery for making washers being installed and production facilities are being generally enlarged. Added ware- house space also being provided for the maintenance more varied and larger stocks both standard and special wash- ers. This property serviced private spur track facilitate carload shipments. Avery and Saul Co. South Boston, Mass., have been appointed distributors seamless steel and Toncan iron boiler tubes for the Globe Steel Tubes Co. Ingersoll Milling Machine Co., Rockford, Ill., has appointed the Ryder Ma- chinery Co., Toronto, handle the sale its the Ontario district, and the Ryder Machinery Co., Montreal, Quebee and Eastern Canada. American Electric Furnace Co., Boston, has appointed Carman Adams, 2970 West Grand Boulevard, Detroit, direct fac- tory representative for Michigan. Walker Downing, advertising agency, Oliver building, Pittsburgh, specializing industrial accounts, announces that ef- fective Aug. the Rogers Advertis- ing Agency, also Pittsburgh, merged with the Walker Downing company. New Trade Publications Corpn., East Fortieth Street, New York. Booklet en- titled “Barriers Industrial Waste,” with table recommendations for materials covering heating and power, ovens and dryers, heat treating furnaces, steel mill, refrigerating, brewery and other equipment. Hoist Buckets. Industrial Brownhoist Corpn., Bay City, Mich. Catalog No. 353. Gives picturized applications many in- dustrial uses. Tables capacities, weights, dimensions, Details grab buckets, grapples and various types buckets. Combustion Control System. Bailey Meter Co., Cleveland. Thirty-two page bulletin describing complete combustion control system designed automatically maintain steam pressure, combustion ciency furnace draft. Diagrams photographs illustrate how the system may applied boilers ranging size from 200 hp. up, and fired either with fuels suspension with stokers. Into LEV Sept. trip out the tri Ford arches you, Floor above add pleasar experi More itself Look, Cour Gad Park, A this display é 4 Pic A di Age, Pp done h But t JUST BETWEEN into the Black October LEVELAND and Chicago hotels now the red will out with- five weeks. For the Machine Tool Exposition (Cleveland, 11-21) and the National Metal Exposition (Chicago, Sept. 30- promise establish post-depression and perhaps all-time attendance man put his shoulders it, could make convention trip unprofitable, but would have try very hard. Ninety-nine out hundred get enough sound ideas and inspiration make the trip investment remunerative share the original Ford Motor Co. There something about rubbing elbows with men doing and worrying about the same things that removes carbon from mental and makes the cerebellum hum like V-16. Every time your brain reaches its absorption limit and your arches begin groan, drop The Iron Age booth. you look you, except invitation. Floored UST one the army ventured solution Mr. Dutton’s fisherman-hat- stream problem (Aug. IA, 114), and that solution was incorrect. The office mathematical genius says the stream flows three miles per hour, that takes the fisher- man exactly long get back the hat took him get away from it, and that you use the familiar freight train analogy will plain the nose Durante’s face. You're Wrong, Sezzee URING the painful post-vacation process working ourselves back into the groove, our percentage error sharply above its normal high. made, for example, the stupid mistake addressing Smith-Armstrong Forge, Inc., Cleveland, non- subscriber. Armstrong, secretary-treasurer, corrects pleasantly: “We have been subscribers several years, and without The Iron Age.” Tip for the Machine Tool Builders were running the Machine Tool Exposition would have this quotation from Dewing’s “Financial Policy Corporations” displayed signboard ft. high: “The great majority business... should invest the surplus where the return largest. This the business And if, led foolish and childish conservatism, they invest their sur- plus high-grade securities, such municipal and government bonds, they are taking @ lower rate of return than the money invested in their own business ought bring; and this not 80, the business should liquidated and the ser- vices the officers dispensed with.” copped that from the alert, successful New York News tan recently Printers’ Ink. Picture Worth... BOUQUET Steel Corporation Subsidiaries for that dramatic composite photograph the double-page spread headed, “This Dead Head Rides Every (Aug. Iron Age, pp. 102-3). Chest Thrown Out marvel at,” said recent visitor, “is how you manage get out issue that size every week.” had just done him favor, which may have distended his admiration beyond hormal But was fine opening; the Oberleutnant was away for the day, too. shot the works, and told him what comprehensive, nationwide editorial staff have; how print editorial pages than any other trade paper; how this reflects high reader-interest; how high reader-interest enables more advertising than any other trade paper. Mr. Ripley! our tiresome trip through Dun-Bradstreet’s find that Tyler County, Va., has the patly named town Little, pop. But Little London compared with Nicholas County’s Gad, pop. 15. Gad has traffic problem. Gadders can always find place e*e*e® Large stocks all metals always hand ready punch for any arrangement perforations. for every conceivable purpose assures Write for Catalog Patterns TIN, STEEL, COPPER, ALUMINUM, BRONZE, BRASS, ZINC, ANY METAL, ANY PURPOSE CHARLES MUNDT SONS FAIRMOUNT AVE., JERSEY CITY, There’s CONVENIENCE for you} Hendrick’s COMPLETE line Making Hendrick your per- forated metal headquarters will assure you not only fine quality plate and unusual standard service but also the convenience the “com- plete line” when you have uncommon problem. HENDRICK MFG. CO. Dundaff Street, Carbondale, Pa. SALES OFFICES PRINCIPAL CITIES PLEASE CONSULT TELEPHONE DIRECTORY Manufacturers of Mitco Open Steel Flooring; Elevator Buckets; Light and Heavy Steel Plate Construction THE IRON AGE, August 29, 1935—75 Cone 4-Spindle Automatics Are economical and accurate producers diameter, milling length. They cut costs, increase production, boost profits. Write for particulars CONE AUTOMATIC MACHINE Inc. WINDSOR, VERMONT REPRESENTATIVES: Detroit: J. C. Austerberry’s Sons, 634 New York State: Syracuse Supply E. Congress St., Detroit, Mich. Co., Syracuse, N. Y¥.; also Roches- Chicago: John H. Glover, 2127 North ter. N. ¥. Sayre Ave., Chicago, Il. Pennsylvania: Arch Machinery Co., Ohio: S. B. Martin, 1077 Erie Cliff 1005 Park Bidg., Pittsburgh, Pa. Drive, Lakewood, Ohio. Philadelphia: Lioyd & Arms, Ine., 133 New England: Votter & Johnston South 36th St., Phi adelphia, Pa. Machine Co., Pawtucket, R. I. California: C. F. Bulotti Machinery Indiana: G. A. Richey, Chamber of Co., 829-831 Folsom St., San Commerce Bldg. Indienapolis. Ind Francisco, Calif. PRECISION” Horizontal Boring, Drilling and Milling Machine THE LUCAS MACHINE TOOL CO. CLEVELAND, OHIO, LELAND-GIFFORD COMPANY Worcester, Mass. Drilling Machinery Belt and Motor Spindle One Six Spindles Tapping Attachments and Multiple Heads SOUTH BEND LATHES other sizes and types Back- Geared, Screw Cutting Lathesfrom 18” swing, $75 $1500, desired, shown innew Gen- eral Catalog No. 94. Writeforcopy. South Bend Lathe Works Bench Lathe. South Bend, Indiana, Cutting Off Machines for Sawing All Kinds Metals THE ESPEN-LUCAS MACHINE WORKS FRONT AND GIRARD AVE. PHILADELPHIA, PENNA. Marvel Ball Bearing High Speed Hack Saws. Plain Shop Saws. High Speed Edge Hack Saw Blades and Hole Shears, Rod Cutters, Drill Write Today. ARMSTRONG-BLUM MFG. CO. 349 FRANCISCO AVE., CHICAGO, ILL. IRON AGE, August 29, 1935 ABRASIVE WHEELS—See_ Grinding Wheels ABRASIVE CLOTH & PAPER Norton Co., Worcester, Mass. Shot and Grit American Foundry Equipment Co., Misha- waka, Ind. Pangborn Corporation, Hagerstown, Md. ACCUMULATORS—Hydraulic Baldwin-Southwark Corp., Southwark Div., Philadelphia. Wood, R. D., & Co., Philadelphia. ACETYLENE—Dissolved Cylinders Air Reduction Sales Co., 60 East 42nd Linde Air Prods, Co., The, 30 East 42nd ACID RECOVERY EQUIPMENT Chemical Construction Corp., 30 Rocke- feller Plaza, New York City. ACIDS—Pickling American Chemical Paint Co,., Ambler, Pa. AIR TANKS AND CYLINDERS Scaife, William B., & Sons Co., Ptgh. ALLOYS—Calcium-Silicon Electro Metallurgical Sales Corp., 30 East 42nd 8t., N. Y. C. ALLOYS—Magnesium Dow Chemical Co., 921 Jefferson Ave., Midland, Mich. ALLOYS—Phosphor Bronze Phosphor Bronze Smelting Co., The, Phila, Riverside (N. J.) Metal Co. Ryerson, Jos. T., & Son, Inc.; Chicago. ALLOYS—Silico-Manganese Electro Metallurgical Sales Corp., 30 East 42nd St., N. Y. C. ALLOYS—Titanium Thermit