. Canadian machinery and metalworking (January-June 1913). company found them-selves very much cramped in their KingStreet premises and it became necessaryto move to more spacious quarters. Asuitable site was secured in the easternpart of the city, alongside the GrandTrunk Railway tracks. Here the nuc-leus of a large engineering works was atonce erected and has been graduallyadded to, until it reached its presentsize at the end of 1911, when the pres-ent foundry was built. The plant covers ing and heavier parts are made, and thewhole machine assembled on the groundfloor. The shop has large win
. Canadian machinery and metalworking (January-June 1913). company found them-selves very much cramped in their KingStreet premises and it became necessaryto move to more spacious quarters. Asuitable site was secured in the easternpart of the city, alongside the GrandTrunk Railway tracks. Here the nuc-leus of a large engineering works was atonce erected and has been graduallyadded to, until it reached its presentsize at the end of 1911, when the pres-ent foundry was built. The plant covers ing and heavier parts are made, and thewhole machine assembled on the groundfloor. The shop has large window areasand artificial illumination is by 150-watt tungsten lamps. An illustrationof the planing mill is given on page is a well-lighted shop and contains afull equipment of modern wood-workingmachinery. The latter is operated fromline shafting, the whole shop beingdriven by a small horizontal Corlisssteam engine. Each machine has itscutters provided with a hood connectedto a central exhaust fan, which gathersup all chips and sawdust and delivers. VIEW OF WORKS. THE GEO. WHITE & SONS, CO., LTD., LONDON, ONT. immediately secured land at what is now71-76 King St. Eastj for which he hadto give a mortgage. Mr. White herecommenced the building of wagons,buggies and light agricultural machin-ery. A few years later he took up themanufacture of small stationary enginesand boilers and, as time went on, de-veloped a portable engine for threshingpurposes. The business at King Street continuedto extend, and in 1890 the patterns,templets and goodwill of the McPhersonMfg. Co., of Fingal, Ont., for the manu-facture of grain threshing machinery,were purchased. This gave a fresh im-petus to the business which continuedto steadily increase during the next tenor twelve years, in which period Mr. an area of about 9 acres and consists offour main buildings, viz: planing milland separator shop, finished storesbuilding, engineering shop, and officebuilding. Their relative positions areshown on
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