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Title: Canadian forest industries 1910
Identifier: canadianforest1910donm (find matches)
Year: 1910 (1910s)
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Subjects: Lumbering; Forests and forestry; Forest products; Wood-pulp industry; Wood-using industries
Publisher: Don Mills, Ont. : Southam Business Publications
Contributing Library: Fisher - University of Toronto
Digitizing Sponsor: University of Toronto

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Machinery and Equipment What Manufacturers of Logging, Sawmill and Woodworking Appliances are Doing
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Splendid New Plant of the E. Long Manufactuaing Co., Ltd., at Orillia Ont. The E. Long Co. in Their New Home An excellent idea of the growth of the lumbering industry in Canada is afforded by the rapid increase which has recently taken place in the manufacture and sale of sawmill machinery. One of the best known firms in Canada, that of the E. Long Manufacturing Company, Limited, of Orillia has shared extensively in the development of this industry. So great in fact has been the demand for the excellent class of machin- ery which they manufacture, that about a year ago they were obliged, m order to meet with increasing trade, to erect a new factory of much larger dimensions than the one in which they had been doing business for almost thirty years. The accompanying illustration gives a fair idea of the appearance of the new plant. The E Long Manufacturing Company produce every class of ma- chinery that is necessary for the equipment of a saw mill, in addition to full lines for the equipment of lath mills and shingle mills. The busi- ness was founded by Kobert Brammer, about 1880, and was conducted sucessfully by him until 1895, when it was taken over by Long & Thompson In 1899 the E. Long Manufacturing Company succeeded to Long & Thompson, and in 1907 the E. Long Manufacturing Company was organized into a limited company under the name of the, E Long Manufacturing Company, Limited. Progressive business methods and conscientious attention to the production of only the most perfect type of machinery have been characteristics of the company s operations, and it is not surprising that in 1909 they found themselves totally un- able to meet the demand for their product with the equipment they thenThednew plant includes the following divisions; machine shop, 140 feet by 65 feet; woodworking shop, 60 feet by 40 feet; foundry, 80 feet by 65 feet; storage room, including the heating plant, blacksmith shop, stock room, etc., 120 feet by 65 feet; pattern storage building, f feet by 100 feet an an office building two storeys high, 30 feet by 40 feet In the construction of the building, particular attention has been paid to having everything fireproof. The material used were re- inforced concrete for the walls, roof and floors, with steel sash for the windows. The partitions throughout the building are also entirely of r-ement The cost of the building was approximately $50,000. 1 he heat- in- svstem for the plant is extremely simple and effective._ It was manufactured and installed by Sheldon*. Limited, of Gait. It is what is known as the mechanical blast or blower svstem, the heat being con- ducted to the different departments through galvanized piping and be- in<r produced by the passage of the fresh air over hot pipe coils. The equipment of the plant includes a thoroughly modern foundry and machine shop, each of which is provided with a travelling crane. Every facility for the handling of heavy machinery is provided, and in addition the company have secured excellent railway facilities, which in- clude one switch running into the factory for shipping purposes and another running the full length of the plant, which is used for bringing in raw material. The latter switch is so arranged as to serve each of the different departments. In addition to the regular equipment of lathes, radial drills, shears, etc., the company have also installed modern heavy machine tools. The plant has been designed especially with a view to per- mitting further growth, and there is room for some 200 employees. A detail of the equipment of the plant which indicates the thor- oughness with which everything about the place has been designed is the installation of an industrial rail running through the whole plant, upon which trucks are run to carry material from any department to any other department of the building. Another detail indicating^ the same thoroughness that is to be found throughout the whole plant is the care that has been taken in connection with the electric installations. The

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