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S Progress Edition of The Canadian Statesman, Wednesday, June 29,1988 Perfect Location Brings Goodyear to Bowman ville Bowmanville in the early 1900's. A quiet, little town, situated just a couple of miles north of Lake Ontario. The lake's shore was scattered scattered with cottages, where area residents enjoyed the; summer months fishing,' boating and swimming. The town's population was not much more than 2,000, with most residents of the surrounding surrounding area working hard as farmers. Then Goodyear moved into town. Long before Goodyear's key "explorers" came up from the company's head office office in Akron, Ohio to Bowmanville, Bowmanville, a seed was planted for them. This seed was a groüp of town capitalists who built a three-storey factory factory on Bowmanville's King Street and appropriately named their firm "The Bowmanville Bowmanville Rubber Company." This company lasted about a year when the group of Bowmanville men gladly sold their struggling firm to the Durham Rubber Compa ny. At virtually the same time as these transactions were taking place in the north, Goodyear's Paul W. Litchfield, Litchfield, President of The Goodyear Goodyear Tire and Rubber Co. of Akron, Ohio looked towards Canada and said: "Canada has exceptional men, favorable favorable working conditions and presents a growing market for tires, as well as a convenient convenient stepping stone to the British export markets." With this thought in mind Litchfield sent C.H. Carlisle to Canada to open a small 30 by 80 foot sales office in Toronto. Toronto. Carlisle soon discovered that, with growing sales and à 35 percent tariff on prod-, History of Shorney's Dates Back to 1929 Fred Shorney opened his first optical dispensais dispensais in September of 1929 at Bay and Bloor Streets in Toronto. His son, Clifford, took over the business in 1957 and increased increased the family dispensary dispensary from one branch to 10 by 1968. Now Shorney's Opticians Opticians have 25 dispensaries dispensaries throughout Ontario, maintaining the high standards of quality, craftsmanship and service service to the public's eye care needs. They provide ongoing training of staff in the latest optical technology in lenses such as invisible invisible bifocals, occupational therapeutic lenses, and lens coatings for anti glare and elimination of ultra violet light rays. Shorney's Opticians carry the latest in fashion fashion eyewear, putting quality and comfort first. First quality sunglasses sunglasses such as Bolle, Se- rengeti, Tone Ray and Bausch and Lomb Ray Bans are available at Shorney's. All have optical optical ground lenses tempered tempered glass or plastic lenses to ensure distortion distortion free eye care safety. The history of Shorney's Shorney's in Bowmanville dates back to 1982 when they took over the Optical Boutique. Vince Fletcher is the current manager of Shorney's. He succeeds John Ulhman who retired retired December 31 of last year. ucts imported from the U.S., the advantages of domestic tire production became obvious. obvious. So, the search began. Carlisle Carlisle and his three assistants from Akron decided that the first Canadian Goodyear factory had to be close to a power supply, railroads and shipping, as well as an available available work force. Bowmanville, Carlisle soon discovered, was perfect. perfect. Close to the Grand Trunk and Canadian Pacific rail systems, and Lake Ontario, Ontario, the town also had a population population of over 2,000 people. An added bonus to this location location was that the first Canadian Canadian factory would be established established beside the Durham Rubber Co.'s building. Thei two firms made an agreement agreement that the Durham Rubber Rubber Co. would mill and calender calender stock that Goodyear, in turn, would use to build its products. But Goodyear's growth was so rapid that the Durham Durham Rubber Co. could not keep up its agreement. So, in October 1910, Goodyear purchased Durham Rubber's Rubber's building and equipment, equipment, making the entire Electronic technician, Lindsay Hayhurst, opens C an cure belting up to 1,832 millimetres (72 inches) new "clamshell" conveyor belt press installed in wide, enabling the company to compete more effec- 1987 at the Bowmanville plant to check a length of test tively in the light belting market. Turn to Page 9 belting. The $1.3 million press is computerized and C EYEWEAR THAT CAPTURES THE BOLD SPIRIT OF STYLE AND ADVENTURE. xperience the many faces of Alfa T Romeo eyewear at Shorney's. Contem- | porary elegance created for the free J ^ [ ii ii at heart. Eyewear styled to express and impress. And developed to give you the ultimate in lightweight comfort and wear The bold spirit of style and adventure is alive and well and living in the Alfa Romeo man. Catch the spirit today... at Shorney's shorney's 30 King St. W., Bowmanville Telephone 623-4477