D a lly Journal-Reeord P ro g re ss Edition, Tue»., M arch 30, 1965 ANSUL CHEMICAL COMPANY SUBSIDIARY FOR U.S. FIRM Ansul Internationa! of Can ada Ltd. Is o i» of Oakville*# chem ical industry units that not wily specialize* highly in Its products but, Incidentally distributes them through a sole Canadian distributor. Le vitt Safety Ltd., 747 Vaughan Rd. in Toronto. Directed by B. E . Ubroe, resident m anager for Oak ville, Ansul's main products a re dry chem icals for fire extinguishers, mainly for in dustrial use but som e a re produced also for use with home and non industrial equipm ent. 0|>erations occu py 10.000 square feet of space at 486 Woody Rd., but only a sm all staff Is required for the chemical operation, involving less than a dozen. Ansul is part of a much larger organization however. Ansul of ('an ad a is the new est subsidiary o4 Ansul Inter national U.S.A. with head office and plants a t M arin ette, Wisconsin, and five other countries. Oakville w as chosen origin ally for its location advan tages to meet the needs of the Canadian m a rk e t Wotherspoon Retrains Help J . A. Wotherspoon and Son, a production has shown gains as prosperous industiy on Cross a result. Ave. ev er since it cam e to Oak BUY LOCALLY ville in 1947, is entering 1965 "A nother policy of ours Is with another year of solid growth and expansion behind it. that we t r y to buy locally says Mr. Wotherspoon who is F o r one tiling the f i r m strongly com m unity-m inded and changed over from m anual to believes in practical meants of m echanical moulding of its pro aiding Oakville's economy. The ducts w hidi include c a st iron firm succeeds too in obtaining pipe and fittings, im proving ef m uch of its m aterials in the ficiency and quality bu t without im m ediate a re a , and that in sacrificng any of its employee* d u d e s sand, pig iron, scrap iron jobs in the process. coke, lim estone and flux. W otherspoon's e m p l o y s 70 Business has increased Mr. people but it w a s a definite Wotherspoon says, because he com pany policy to avoid per notes a strong tendency for us sonal job losses under the new ers to turn to cast iron pipe m echanical system . P resident and fittings for Ms perm anency and tre a su re r John Wotherspoon and its ability to stand up in explains th at in-plant training definitely to critical health de has integrated the work force m ands for pipe used in public with the new m ethods and that supply system s. The firm also supplies municipal castings for use on putobc service installa tions by towns and cities. These irx'lude m anhole covers, basins, valves, aatch-basins and w ater service boxes. GOOD LOCATION Oakville w as an Ideally s tra t egic location for a firm doing the type of business that Wotherapoon operates. T ransporta tion facilities a re extrem ely im portant to the heavy products produced and in Oakville facili ties a r e am ple and available. Many em ployees a re Canad ians of foreign origin and som e brought E uropean skills with them to Oakville. The in p la n t training for m achine moulding has further added to individual skills with an all-around advan tage to a smoothly winning Long Manufacturing Operation Produces Automotive Products Capacity production at a steady operating r a ts em ploying about 300 people w a s the 1964-65 story of Long Man ufacturing Co., Ltd., on K e r r St. And the capacity ra te app e a rs to be well projected into this year. This is the eleventh y ea r of Long oprations in Oakville and a s a m aker of autom otive pro ducts its move to Oakville w as closely allliod to the Ford de cision to assem ble c a rs here. I t cam e from Windsor. SOON EXPANDED square loot plant h ere and a 26,000 square loot extension started. Clutch m anufacturing and of fice operations foUowed t h e move from Windsor to Oakville in 1956 com pleting colsolidation of all the com pany's activities h ere. T he plant is well sited for nearby CNR and C PR rail service. , . OTHER PRODUCTS Oakville Sheet Metal Company Limited INDUSTRIAL AND COMMERCIAL WORK IN . . . Short Run Metal Products Stainless Steel, Copper, Monel Galvanized, Black Iron, Aluminum # Dust Collecting Systems Air Make*Up Systems Industrial Filters Spot Welding, Punch Work and Brake Work We are proud to be a part of Canada's largest town and happy to have grown along w ith Oakville fo r the past 12 years. A sincere thank you to all those whose patronage over the years has contributed to our success. We look forward w ith confidence to many more. "Established Since 1953" Only a y ea r a fte r L o n g opened its Oakville 1955, the rad iato r plant w as m oved into a Long began production 33 years ago in Windsor with m ot or vehicle rad ia to rs and clu t ches and 23 em ployees. Today in the OakviUe plant it turns out these and such products as chassis elem ents, oil coolers, and p arts for agricultural equ ipm ent and others. MARK ANNIVERSARY -- Ford and Town of Oakville offid a ls gathered last May to m ark the 60th anniversary of th e opmpany in Canada. Among the dignitaries present at an anniversary dinner wore Ja c k Cornwall of the Chamber of Commerce, K arl Scott, Ford of Canada president and his affair. Kemsan Products Are Producers S T M - For Industrial Insecticides I O akville's chemical industry is far-reaching from large corporations to sm all unfts, but one of the busiest is the Kem san P roducts Ltd. plan*-. 1064 thinking th a t chose Oakville has South Service Road w h e r e been fully vindicated. The site w as selected only a fte r thorough industrial insecticides a re pro surveys of all available land in duced. The staff num bers five. the Toronto area and the na The Oakville unit works clo tural advantages otf Oakville w ere found to be spaciousness, sely in conjunction w ith another rail services, power and w ater plant the com pany has in Mon availability, and closeness to treal w here head office a n d w arehouse facilities a r e m ain im portant trunk highways. tained. Ju s t how im portant transport One of the few pre-w ar In ation facilities would prove was forecast by R. M. Sale, Ford dustries in Oakville. K e m s a n president in 1951 when he said cam e here in 1932, because th at a t least one out of every com pany officials found the lo five c a rs and trucks built in cation convenient for m arketing Oakville would be delivered to a and transportation. 0 a k v I Ue the custom er living within 25 m iles operations a re u n d e r direction of P resident and Gen of the plant. T he fa c t is the care a r e not e ra l M anager H. L. Spicer. alw ays deliveied over t h a t , trifling distance, because t h e custom ers th e m sd v e s arriv e at the F o rd plant to ta k e delivery of new cars, ordered through d ealers to specifications of col o r, slyle and model, and drive happily aw ay with the new ca r a fte r a b r i e f w ait in a beau tifully furnished and decorated lobby of tin? plant. This irontdoor delivery co ntrasts sharply with the huge three-decker rail w ay c a rs on the Ford siding th a t 5oad c a rs for delivery to the m ost d istan t points in Ca nada. Yet m ore than a third of all c a rs and trucks sold in Canada a r e sold within a 200-rrwle ra d ius ctf Toronto, a short:, econom ical delivery h au l within the biggest and m ost concentrated c a r m a rk e t in the country. Ford's Growth Story Will Continue With New Oakville Plant Nothing ever stands still in the automotive industry. It couldn't be otherw ise in an industry betting billions ol in vested capital that the Canad ian economy and the Canadian population will never stand still K S o ^ h e n Ford of Canada an nounced last August it would spend over $25,000,000 for a new truck assem bly plant in Oak ville, Ford laid another b l u e chip on the l i n e labelled " Growth.'* And growth m eans not only the com pany's own, and expansion of its m arkets, but another em ployment source for some 500 m en in Oakville, larger use of raw m aterials available here, and a probable jum p in its tax contribution to Oakville by at least $600,000 to more than .double its previous annual taxes. F o r Oakville therefore "th e truck plant" is naturally t h e biggest thing th at happened to Ford during the .last y ea r and a s visual evidence of it grows on the landscape every d a y brings employment and other benefits it will yield. MARKET IS H ERE Even in the gigantic Ford scheme of tilings, the Oakville expansion is im portant. It Was decided upon " to m eet autom o tive m arket growth in C anada" officials said, adding that it w as expected also to increase the Ford Oakville work force from 6,000 to 6,500. Size of the new plant w-as announced at a million square feet. The truck sales of Ford were rising at a slightly faster rate than sales of its passenger cars a t that time but there was m ore to it than that. Karl E. Scott, president of Ford, said that ``Increasingly diversified dem ands for truck m odels require the utm ost flex ibility to ensure that a unit can be built and delivered to a cus tom er in the fastest time pos sible--consistent with our high standards of quality. It is in teresting to note th at Oakville today assem bles 165 different truck models, com pared with 60 models in 1956. The num ber of components for these trucks has risen to 9,500 from 4.800" Mr. Scott added, s Mr. Scott also noted that con struction of the truck plant would also m ake available in creased space and facilities for higher passenger c a r output. FORD SPENDING Ford spending is on the sam e giant scale as Its other opera tions. Last year Ford hit a new high by spending 5319.9 millions in Canada for goods and ser vices. w ages and salaries. Most of the wage and salary bill w as in Oakville, Windsor and Niag a ra Falls, w here the assem bly, m anufacturing and g lass plants anp located respectively. L ast y e a r's spending w as up 17.5 per cent over the $272.2 million for the sam e item s in 1963. Not only do w ages and salaries filter back into O a k ville's economy from the Ford plant. It paid also $86.5 million in duties and taxes to federal, provincial and municipal bodies up from $X5.7 million in 1963. Sales for 1964 s e t a `* 'h e r | peak at $918 millron against | S797.3 million the previous year. but p er share earnings for the y ea r w ere sharply reduced to $4.43 after taxes against $14.71 in 1963. On.' reason for the de cline was '·expenditure incur red in bringing into operation newly expanded facilities." P re sident Scott told shareholders. If there is one fa M y safe forecast about Ford in Oakville is that it will continue to expand its "facilities" as it has consis tently since coming to Oakville in 1952. P arallel with plant ex pansion a r e sales increases and wholesale sales to Ford dealei*s of cars, trucks and tractors 172,087 units in 1963. year, with about 3,000 em ployees less than half the present m an power. And it is estim ated that 20 per cent of Fond Oakville employees also live within the community. A change in the business face of Oakville began about the time Ford moved in. Locations on ColbomcSt. and other business a re a s h av e been m odernized in m any cases and w here there w ere vacant lots new com m er cial buildings appeared. Branch banks increased, and the drive to create new motels, a p a rt ment buildings and entire sub divisions got its first real stim ulus from the Ford entry on the scene. Today much of this new housing accom m odates B'ord families, who in turn con tribute to Oakville through high purchasing power and taxes to the town. 438 Inglehart, Oakville Phone 845-1401 EM PLOYEES LIVE H ERE The totals today a re a d ram a tic contrast to the first y ea r of F o rd 's Canadian operation 61 yeai-s ago in Windsor w here it had 17 employees and produced 117 cars in the first y ear. After BEST SITE CHOSEN moving to Oakville Ford sta rt There w ere sound reasons for ed to produce about 100,000 a F o rd 's arrival here and t h e What Does Your Job Require?. . . 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