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Navy Veteran Has Built Business With 30 Workers By 16 Years of Hard Work An ex-naval veteran who at| Acme Electric does mainly and commercial the close Of World War II al- industrial most passed up Belleville as a wiring installations and has business location now has a been responsible for many indual-barrelled electrical con- stallations in district industrial tracting enterprise grossing plants and school and public close to a half million dollars buildings. annually. Electric Motor Sales and j One hot Sunday afternoon Service, Belleville Ltd., ser~ j during the summer of 194.5, vices electric motors ranging j Jack Belanger of Electric Mot- j in size from tiny sewing maor Sales and Service of Can-' chine motors up to mammoth nifton Road was passing | 350 horsepower affairs weighthrough the city. He stopped | ing several tons. Biggest motto assis-t a naval rating who ors serviced at the Gannifton had passed out from the heat Koad shop range up to ^00 ard, asking where he could horsepower. Motors larger find a doctor, was told that than this are serviced on the job, being too heavy to handle. | they were all on holidays. "I turned to my wife and The Belleville firm is General! told her Belleville was one Electric motor and control deal- j place I did not want to lo- er for the Quinte district and cate," Mr. Belanger said "but represents every Canadian manas things turned out Belleville ufacturer for maintenance and was where I did locate and I repairs. It is the largest electric motor repair shop in the am not sorry." Electric Motor Sales and area offering a complete reService which Mr. Belanger winding service. heads up was not a ready- 33 YEARS' EXPERIENCE made industry. On the contrary, it started Still on the bright side of 50, from nothing, or possibly less Mr. Belanger nevertheless has than nothing. At one time, 33 years in the electric motor shortly after the business was repair service. During the war started up at Foxboro, a fire he was an electrical artificer put Mr. Belanger $20,000 in for the Navy. Following the war he wanted the red. to carry on in the same field HARD WORK PAID OFF and looked about Eastern On"It hasn't been easy, but tario for what seemed to be a 'hard work has paid off," Mr. suitable location. The Belleville area lacked a recognized motor Belanger says. Now Electric Motor Sales repair and re-winding service, and Service, Belleville Ltd., sc he decided on the Belleville with its subsidiary Belleville area. Acme Electric Ltd., has a pay- He purchased the former Garroll of approximately 30 per- diner Garage at Foxboro and sons. It does electrical con- set up shop but just got the tracting and motor servicing business underway when it was from Cobourg to Kingston and destroyed by fire. He rebuilt the shop and re-i Eorth to the Ottawa Valley. "Aside from our material maind in Foxboro until 1951,1 success, it gives a person con- when he transferred operations' siderable satisfaction to havs to Belleville. 3f- persons dependent on you Since the transfer the bus-; for their livelihood," Mr. Be* iness has boomed with the over langer commented. $400,000 turnover being reach- ed last year. The last year he was in Foxboro the entire year's receipts were but $16,000. FAMILY AFFAIR The Foxboro operation started as a one-man effort, but now it is something of a'family affair with three sons assisting in the business. For employees the local firm draws heavily on local schools but in the main trains its own personnel. Several thousands of dollars have been spent on training personnel in Toronto. Mr. Belanger is the secretary of the Electrical Apparatus Service Association and is on the board of directors for Canmark Ltd., an association nf dealers in the electrical marketing service. i iSIGN OF THE BIG MOTOR -- Jack Belanger,! of Electric Motor Sales and Service, Cannifton Road,! poses beside big outmoded 100 horsepower motor set in front of his shop. Motor at one time was used at Canada Cement.