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Belleville Firm gets contract for 500 Fibre Glass Boats: Belleville Precision Mouldings, part 2

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The initial boat building venture of the fledging company sees the firm building a versatile craft which Mr. Wilby says can be purchased either with or without sails. Complete with sail- the craft will sell for "about" $365, or with oars only around $270. This means that the customer can buy his dinghy one year and add the sail the following year. The craft is outfitted with a transom for fitting of a three horse power outboard motor. Extremely light, the complete dinghy weighs only 65 pounds and can be easily carried on a car top. It will be marketed all across Canada. With "preliminary" production problems out of the way Mr. Wilby expects to turnout an average of four dinghies per day with present staff. However, witfti the arrival of /aubomialtdic equipment for iihe isipnay /aippflioaitiion of resin, production is expected to jump 1x> 10 or 12 craft per day. The 32-foot ocean going pleasure cnaifit which Mr. Wilby hopeis to build will con> sidera/bly lower the cost of owning this ckiss olf boat, he sadd. Witlh inboard marine motor and completely \fitited for sleeping four, persons, 'Mr. Wilby expects the craft will retail for between $8,000 aind $9,000. This figure, he stays will be about $2,000 lower than the'1 cosft of other comparable craft. Also the $365 price for the fibre glass dinghies now being built will be considerably less than for a comparable craft built of aluminum. And the fibre glass construction has definite advantages for boat construction. Fibre Glass Dinghy Peter T. Wilby, president of Belleville Precision Mouldings, checks transom fitting on fibre glass dinghy at Goleman Street plant. It is remarkably resilent and an ordinary bump against a rock does no damage. And the 65 pound weight makes for easy handling for car top moving. Still another prospect fo7 the new Belleville boat building firm is the construction of boait houses with fibre glass pontoons. The craft, capable of sleeping eight persons would be manufactured for sale in the United States.

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