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attraction f6r the almost 300 shoe 4upr- which does awaywth in old laborious jne lhlondorih and foreman who visited board thods of making loaher artothcr drawmo morot plant recently wm the larcjo ianelv of card here torn mperl products ready to ho lealhort made in acton nov machlnory hipped two boilers generating 85 000 pounds o steam par llour are regulated from the huge loler room oil fired they consum from 5 000 to fl 000 gallons per day an unuml sight through ihr sky lifiu huge moke stack 110 fl high built in 1901 at a cost o 11 500 today it would cost 450 000 to replace it staff photo ubeardmore and company l their attractive mam entrance pinkorlon so cunly cuard lranvm miller says ho dinars irom 50 lo finialf plant each day lyiie mil ve itui- b rfe m ill ihili i recently the beardmore and co plant was visitod by shoe superintendents and fore men irom all over ontario and parts of que bee third visit of the shoe specialists they were again taken on guided tour ol the plant in group ol 0 here they r n hr prior to the tour on the plant s beautiful ground new machines modernize beardmore plant tanning the ontlro tanning oper ation is completed in olght hiibro drums which doardmoros plonooroav and today is widely copied chrome loathor lsalsosortod split shaved and colored in iho chrome department with shavtnfr bolng done on now wide so inch shaving marhlnus which have speeded up production in iho pasting unit lualhor ik slicked out to get maximum fool- age and smoothness and then dried pride ofthc department is the now cnarvo vacuum dryor which dries in approximately five minutes one of iho most modern concepts in drying the machine takes totally wet leather ai a snood of 2530 sides an hour motors for the dryor which sols the company hack 35000 a unit are made in guelph and shipped lo grenoble france and return as part of the machine automatic staking machines are rapidly replacing the old slocumh model on which a skilled operator could do only sosldesan hour tin sehlagotor for in stance made in germany does 170 sides an hmir ii includes an automatic positioning append age which builds loads run horse approximately 120000 has heen spent topurchaso now equip ment in this department the new machines are pari of man agements resolve to koep pro duction costs minimal while maintaining the high standard ivy which beardmore leather is known around iho globe a wellequipped laboratory which controls and analyires the reality of the leather produced and develops now products is another fundamental part of the beardmore secret specially leather finishes an tique type finishes colors of overy hue are produced in aclon bnouph welling k produced each month to stretch to toronto ahd back the company also produces transmission lulling the larg est holt i ver manufarturid here was four feet wide 115 foot long three ply thickness ii n quired 200 hulls power for the huge lleardtnnre complex comes from twobolliirs wllh rated horsepower of 8 10 when eomhlnod they consume from 5000 lo 11000 gallons of oil per day changing wllh the times the hoardmort plant is lrki ly lo ik a leading acton industry for many years to come one of the most modern concepts in dry nig tie h irvo v 11 uum dryer tapes totally wi i i ithi r nt dm it in approximately five ennui ill rnon tr h tlw fue i lieardinrjre lie hiiqi hie i i fori man i in is 000 n i ii i till r olli it i irjr iikiih beardmore co limited tanners since 1844