Identifier: canadianwood22 (find matches)
Title: Canadian wood products industries
Year: 1922 (1920s)
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Subjects: Furniture industry and trade Woodworking industries
Publisher: Don Mills, Ont. : Southam-MacLean Publications
Contributing Library: Fisher - University of Toronto
Digitizing Sponsor: University of Toronto

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Factory-HAMILTON, Ont. Vancouver Branch—109 Powell Street Canadian Woodworker and Furniture Manufacturer
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New Model D Mattison Automatic Shaping Lathe at Rockford Desk Co. Today, the up-to-date plant is replacing its old-style automaticlathes with the new, more efficient model for the same reasonsthey are replacing old-fashioned planers and saws with modernequipment. SOME people, even though they have a turn-ing machine, still think of the modern auto-matic lathe as a more or less special ma-chine, adapted for the large plant making turn-ings by the thousands. The fact is that for the average manufacturer offurniture ornamented with turnings, the Matti-son Lathe is.just as standard as a planer. Oftenmore money is spent for turnings that go intoproduction than for planing the lumber that goesinto production. Who would think of continuing the use of anold-fashioned planer when a new, more modern one would do the work at half the cost and muchmore accurately? For the same reason, he shouldalso consider the Xew Model D Lathe. Changing conditions in furniture manufacturehave resulted in our re

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