. Electric railway review . een incorporated with a capitalization of $100, company has just completed the purchase of a largeplant in North Dayton, formerly occupied by the Craig-Reynolds Company, and the work of transformation is nowunder way. The plant acquired consists of two foundries,each 60 by 300 feet, a tin shop, one core room, an immensewareroom, pattern storeroom, office structure and other acces-sories, covering seven acres of ground. It has a railwayfrontage of 816 feet along the main line of the CincinnatiHamilton & Dayton Railroad, and a spur track runs into theplant. Acc
. Electric railway review . een incorporated with a capitalization of $100, company has just completed the purchase of a largeplant in North Dayton, formerly occupied by the Craig-Reynolds Company, and the work of transformation is nowunder way. The plant acquired consists of two foundries,each 60 by 300 feet, a tin shop, one core room, an immensewareroom, pattern storeroom, office structure and other acces-sories, covering seven acres of ground. It has a railwayfrontage of 816 feet along the main line of the CincinnatiHamilton & Dayton Railroad, and a spur track runs into theplant. According to the terms of the purchase The CooperHeater Company secures all the machinery, apparatus andequipment of the old works, and in a very short time theheater plant will be in full operation with a large force ofworkmen. The machinery and interior equipment were se-cured of Barney & Proctor, Cincinnati. The company will manufacture exclusively house andcar hot water and steam heaters, the invention of George Plant of the Cooper Heater Company. Cooper of St. Johns. Mich. For some months experimentswere carried on with the heating apparatus with evidentsatisfaction, the result being that a number of large contractswere secured for the installation of the service. The ap-paratus is ingenious in that it occupies but a small space ineither residence or car. and because of the economy effectedin the consumption of fuel. On the demonstration that astreet car can be heated at a cost of 10 to 12^4 cents a Citv Railway Company of Dayton recently placed an orderwith The Cooper Heater Company to install its system of hotwater heating in all of its SI winter cars. The company hasalso received orders from many of the leading traction Imesin Ohio. Indiana and Illinois. A full description of theCooper heater for car heating is contained on page o42 ofthe Electric Railway Review of April 20, 1907. Besides the manufacture of various sized car heaters andresidence heaters, the co
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