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Title: Hardware merchandising March-June 1917
Year: 1917 (1910s)
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Subjects: Hardware industry Hardware Implements, utensils, etc Building
Publisher: Toronto :
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ated as something more than amere by-product. Canada should havea plant of her own. This policy wasadopted and Mr. Allen was entrustedwith its execution. Those were busy days, he said.My first office was in the King EdwardHotel, but sixty days after I arrived inCanada we had our plant in runningorder, turning out babbitts, and mightygood babbitts too. That was eight years ago and theHoyt Metal Company of Canada is stillgrowing. The plant on Eastern Avenue,though comparatively new, is already toosmall and an extension is under way tobe ready in July. It was slow work though, gettingtrade at first, Mr. Allen confessed.Business was still dull after .the panicof 1907. But Hoyt Metal and Hoyt ser-vice gradually won their way. Whenwe gained a customer, we kept him.Today the Hoyt Metal Company of Can-ada is certainly one of the largest pro-ducers of mixed metal in the Dominion. How do you account for this rapidgrowth ? Mr. Allens answer was unhesitating.There are three reasons for it. First,
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136 HARDWARE AND METAL—Toronto Advertising Section. June 30, 1917. the excellence of our alloys—we use thegreatest care both in the selection of ourmaterials and in their manufacture. Inthe second place, our prompt service,and thirdly, our courtesy to the trade.We believe in courtesy and the squaredeal. We do our best to serve our cus-tomers and they give us their confidencein return. A Tour of the PlantThe Hardware and Metal representa-tive was curious to see something of themanufacture of alloys and Mr. Jas. A.Taylor, the superintendent of the fac-tory, was good enough to act as guide. Mr. Taylor, by the way, is one of thebest—if not the best metal mixer inCanada. We first came to the carload depart-ment (photograph No. 2). The air washot with the breath of the moltenmetal. From the huge pot in the fore-ground of the picture the liquid alloywas piped into the moulds on the floor.That big pot, said Mr. Taylor, holds20 tons. The smaller pots on each sidehold 10 tons apiece, and

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