CHANDLER-EVANS CORPORATION, manufacturer of carburetors, fuel pumps, and other accessories, formerly located at Meriden, Conn., is being moved to the plant of the parent company, NILES-BEMENT-POND Co., West Hartford, Conn. There will be no change in the separate identity of the products of the Chandler-Evans Corporation. ALEXANDER M. WRIGHT has been appointed assistant general manager, and FLOYD C. GUSTAFSON sales manager of the corporation. Mr. Wright joined the organization in 1941, and has been manager of the ChandlerEvans Dayton plant since its construction early in 1942. Mr. Gustafson became connected with the engineering department of the corporation in 1938. For a time he was service manager. Alexander M. Wright, New Assistant General Manager Chandler-Evans Corporation New Jersey N. J. The company will continue to specialize in the application of powdered metals and plastics to mechanical and electrical products. E. G. CROSS has recently been appointed supervisor of the production planning and control department of the Crocker-Wheeler Division, Joshua Mendy Iron Works at Ampere, N. J. ROBERT W. BURGESS has been ap- FRED F. KLETT has been appointed COOPER ALLOY FOUNDRY CO., Hillside, AIRCRAFT PARTS DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION, Summit, N. J., has changed its name to HUNGERFORD RESEARCH CORPORATION and has moved to a new laboratory building in Murray Hill, Floyd C. Gustafson, Newly Appointed Sales Manager of Chandler-Evans Corporation G. EDWARD PENDRAY, for the last nine years assistant to the president of the Westinghouse Electric Corporation, in charge of public relations and education, has opened an office of his own as counselor in management, public relations, and education at 55 W. 42nd St., New York. An error was made in giving this address in September MACHINERY. ac LEPEL HIGH FREQUENCY LABORATORIES, INC., 39 W. 60th St., New York 23, N. Y., a pioneer in the field of highfrequency induction heating, has quired the business, good will, and assets of the Induction Heating Division of the Van Norman Co., Springfield, Mass., machine tool manufacturers. The service for Van Norman units now in use in industry will be maintained by the Lepel organization. H. J. FRENCH has resigned as assistant director for raw materials and facilities of the Steel Division, War Production Board, Washington, D. C., and has resumed his duties as assistant manager of the Development and Research Division of the International Nickel Co., Inc., 67 Wall Street, New York 5, N. Y. He has served on the WPB forty-two months. CLARENCE LESLIE WILLIAMS has joined the staff of sales engineers of the Foxboro Co., Foxboro, Mass. He will have headquarters in the company's New York office, 420 Lexington Ave., and will be assigned to the northern New Jersey territory. E. D. WACKER has been appointed general manager of the C. J. Tagliabue Division of the Portable Products Corporation, Brooklyn, N. Y. For the last eight years, he has been general sales manager. HARRY A. WINNE, vice-president in charge of engineering for the General Electric Co.'s apparatus department, has been appointed vice-president in charge of engineering policy for the entire company. TITAN METAL MFG. CO., Bellefonte, Pa., has created an International Division, with headquarters at 70 Pine St., New York 5, N. Y. JEAN PAUL ELKANN will assume direction of the new export office. Ohio HARRY W. BARKLEY has been appointed executive vice-president and general manager of the National Tool Co., Cleveland, Ohio, manufacturer of high-precision metal-cutting tools. Mr. Harry W. Barkley, Executive Vice-president and General Manager, National Tool Co. Barkley was connected for twentyseven years with the Ford Motor Co., having previously served as superintendent of the Ford Highland Park plant. L. H. GEGEN HEIMER, after a fouryear leave of absence for war duties in Washington, is back with the Timken Roller Bearing Co., Canton, Ohio, in his former capacity as sales engi neer in the Industrial Division. Mr. Gegenheimer was first lent by the Timken company to the British Ministry of Supply, where he was supply officer until December, 1943, after which he became a dollar-a-year man with the War Production Board. When he left the War Production Board, he had become chief of the Bearing Branch of the Tools Division, a post formerly held by HOWARD C. SAUER, another Timken employe, now head of Timken's foreign division. WARNER & SWASEY Co., Cleveland, Ohio, builder of machine tools, chiefly turret lathes, for over sixty years, expanded its facilities to meet the war demand considerably beyond the peacetime requirements for machine tool manufacture. To utilize these excess facilities, the company, as a first step in a long-term program of product diversification, is entering the textile machinery field. Production of a knitting machine of improved type is planned for the near future, and other types of textile equipment are under consideration. The company is also studying the possibilities in several other industrial equipment fields. JOHN A. ALLWOOD, JR., executive vicepresident and general manager of Lear, Inc., Piqua, Ohio, has been elected a member of the board of directors. Mr. Allwood has been connected with the Lear organization since 1942, serving as consultant on gearing and general mechanical problems prior to his present position. FRANK J. LASKEY, general purchasing agent of the Republic Steel Corporation, Cleveland, Ohio, has been made manager of purchases and raw materials, succeeding C. A. ILGENFRITZ, who is now connected with the United States Steel Corporation. WILLIAM T. ADAMS becomes general purchasing agent. INDUSTRIAL HYDRAULICS CORPORATION has recently established offices in the Cleveland Trust Bank Bldg. at Painesville, Ohio. W. T. STEPHENS is president and chief engineer of the corporation, and W. B. MCCLELLAND vicepresident and sales manager. CARLTON MACHINE TOOL Co., Cincinnati, Ohio, has been added to the list of companies who are associated in the AMTEA (American Machine Tool Export Associates) Corporation, 350 Fifth Ave., New York 1, N. Y. Pennsylvania W. L. O'BRIEN has been promoted to the position of manager of the Stainless Steel Division of the Jessop Steel Co., Washington, Pa. Mr. O'Brien was previously district manager in Indianapolis, and has been connected with the company since May, 1943. W. L. O'Brien, New Manager of Stainless Steel Division, Jessop Steel Co. WILLIAM SELLERS & Co., Philadelphia, Pa., announce that they have established a Hydraulic and Special Machin ery Division under the direction of JOHN C. GRAF, sales manager, and JOHN B. CUTLER, chief engineer, specializing in hydraulic presses and special equipment for the ferrous, nonferrous, plastic, and rubber fields. Messrs. Graf and Cutler have had an experience covering twenty years in the development of molding presses of all types, as well as special equipment and molds used in these fields. The company recently added a Marine Division to the organization, for the development and manufacture of modern ship machinery, including electro and hydraulic steering gear, telemotors, capstans, cranes, winches, etc. WALTER J. GREENLEAF Co., Pittsburgh, Pa., announces the formation of a new national distributing organization in the industrial and automotive lubrication field to be known as the GREENLEAF CORPORATION, with headquarters in the Penn Bldg., Wilkinsburg (Pittsburgh 21) Pa. The corporation will introduce a complete new line of natural flake graphite products for industrial lubrication, hot machining applications, engine and automotive lubrication, and tool treatment. WILLIAM C. ROBINSON, who has been assistant to the director of personnel relations for the Lukens Steel Co., Coatesville, Pa., and its divisions, ByProducts Steel Corporation and Lukenweld, Inc., since February, 1944, has been appointed assistant director. Mr. Robinson was previously connected with the Mead Corporation of Chillicothe, Ohio, in the capacity of assistant director of personnel relations. ADOLPH G. HOCHBAUM has been appointed managing director for exports to the U.S.S.R. and general sales representative for central and eastern European countries for the Baldwin Locomotive Works, Philadelphia, Pa. He has been with the Baldwin organization since 1939, handling various products for Russia. EDWARD DE LUCA has recently become associated with the Machine & Tool Designing Co., Philadelphia, Pa., as field representative in the South. He will make his headquarters at 1716 Landon St., Jacksonville, Fla. JAMES A. BAUBIE has been appointed director of the public relations department of the Westinghouse Electric Corporation, Pittsburgh, Pa. He was previously assistant manager. W. H. MCCORMICK has been appointed chief metallurgist of the Park Works of the Crucible Steel Co. of America, at Pittsburgh, Pa. He has been with the Crucible organization for seventeen years. A. C. MONTEITH has been appointed assistant manager of headquarters engineering for the Westinghouse Electric Corporation, Pittsburgh, Pa. He will also hold the position of director of education. Wisconsin AMPCO METAL, INC., Milwaukee, Wis., announces the appointment of N. A. DOOLITTLE, 1850 E. 16th Place, Tulsa, Okla., as representative in Oklahoma, southern Kansas, and southwestern Missouri for the sale of Ampco metal castings and other Ampco bronze specialties. W. W. SWAN, Carondelet Bldg., New Orleans, La., has been assigned a number of counties in southeastern Texas, in addition to the states of Louisiana, Alabama, and Mississippi that he has previously been covering. JAMES E. THомS has been appointed vice-president in charge of sales and general administration for the Peerless Machine Co., Racine, Wis. He previously held the position of sales manager. Canada PETER H. W. B. LECKIE-EWING has joined the technical staff of the Union Twist Drill Co., Butterfield Division, Rock Island, Quebec, Canada, as metallurgist and chief of the Cutting Tools Research Department. Mr. LeckieEwing is an honor graduate of the University of British Columbia, Vancouver, B. C., in metallurgical engineering, and obtained his master's de Peter H. W. B. Leckie-Ewing, Chief of Cutting Tools Research Dept., Butterfield Division of Union Twist Drill Co. H. B. Kraut, Who has Become Chairman of the Board of the Giddings & Lewis Machine Tool Co., Fond du Lac, Wis. gree at Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Mass. Following graduation from M.I.T., Mr. LeckieEwing was with Atlas Steels Ltd., Welland, Ontario, for three years as ordnance metallurgist, after which he became affiliated with the War Metals Research Board, Vancouver, from which he resigned to join the Union Twist Drill Co. Obituaries on ROBERT ATKINSON, district manager since 1927 of the Steel and Tube Division of the Timken Roller Bearing Co., Detroit, Mich., died in the Alexander Blaine Hospital, Detroit, September 2, following a month's illness, at the age of fifty-three years. Mr. Atkinson was born in Holly, Mich., and at the time of his death lived in Birmingham, a suburb of Detroit. He received a Bachelor of Science degree from the University of Michigan in 1914, and the following year a Master of Science degree in chemical engineering. He was a member of the Detroit chapter of the American Society for Metals. His wife and three daughters survive him. HARRY W. BAILS, for the last thirtythree years purchasing agent of the Barber-Colman Co., Rockford, Ill., died on July 22. He had been with the Barber-Colman Co. since 1905. ARTHUR M. BREWSTER, New England field engineer for Advance Pressure Castings, Inc., Brooklyn, N. Y., died on August 30 at the age of sixty-five. Lieutenant Colonel Ralph J. Coming Events OCTOBER 2-3-Second annual meeting of the MAGNESIUM ASSOCIATION at the Waldorf-Astoria Hotel, New York City. Secretary's office, 3239 RCA Bldg., 30 Rockefeller Plaza, New York 20, N. Y. OCTOBER 2-3-Meeting of the Cincinnati section of the AMERICAN SOCIETY of MECHANICAL ENGINEERS to be held at the Netherland Plaza Hotel, Cincinnati, Ohio, replacing the fall meeting of the Society, which was canceled in accordance with the rulings of the Office of Defense Transportation. NOVEMBER 26-30-Annual meeting of the AMERICAN SOCIETY OF MECHANICAL ENGINEERS in New York City. C. E. Davies, secretary, 29 W. 39th St., New York 18, N. Y. To raise wage rates without a compensating increase in productivity or a lowering of other costs will make higher prices necessary unless a margin of profit exists which can be safely reduced. If that condition does not exist, losses may occur and there will be no incentive to expand production and employment. The wage rate is not a true measure of cost. The important factor is productivity per manhour, which depends upon (1) the efficiency of machinery and equipment used; (2) the efficiency of management; (3) the efficiency of workers; and (4) the willingness of workers to let their productivity rise. Stevenson, Jordan & Harrison, Inc. |