Los Angeles herald., 1910-01-11
LOCAL FACTORIES
DO GREAT WORK
AUTO WIND SHIELDS SOURCE
OF EMPLOYMENT
Skilled Mechanics Turning Out Hand
some Auto Windows and
Keeping Up Big Pay
Roll
by ID. w. sENfPLE


It will be remembered that a few
weeks ago The Herald called attention
to the Twitchell Air Gauge company
as a manufacturing industry wholly a
local concern and which is contribut-
ing to the commercial and manufac-
turing enterprises of this city in the
line of automobile accessories.
The Herald has found another insti-
tuition which is doing considerable to
add to the manufacturing fame Of
Greater Los Angeles in the firm of
Parish & Gather, who are engaged in
the manufacture of wind shields for
automobiles and who are doing much
to advance the industrial supremacy
of this cfsg over what it has ever been
before.
With a large plant situated on Los
Angeles street the members of this
firm are the aggressive makers of the
Hartford wind shield for which the
well known firm OF Chanslor 81 Lyon
are the agents in this territory. Here
are employed a force of skilled me-
chanics at busy whirling lathes, turn
ing out the handsome brass-trimmed
front windows you see on the majority
of automobiles in this city.
1t is an interesting visit to witness
the methods Of producing the wind
brakes now so popular. Purchasing
the round brass tubes in great lengths
by the ton, these are carried into the
shop and stored. From the racks ex-
perienced and skilled workmen take
them one by one to q machine where
they. are cut in the lengths required.
Inside these tubes. similar in size and
1OOlyinoy ing Window rods
(Which are hung the screen curtains
Nof silk or other materials, is inserted
and driven a wooden pole, just the size
of the rod, and there it is cut. This
produces the stiff and unbreakable rod
you have on your wind shield The
most interesting thing is to know how
the corners are turned. When the rod
has been stuffed" with the wooden
rod, the corners go to cornering
machine where, by a grooved machine,
the turn is made the exact size.
"Well,P says the onlooker, but how
does the wood become bent?" Easyl
The wood is smashed around the turn
and this makes it solid and no power
on earth can take it out 1t might be
dug out if one lived long enough, but
it is there to stay. This done, it goes
to the corner-maker, who adds to this
solid fittings which are cougeaied
thereto ana SO W6lu6Q IlaL one cannot
tell which is the hollow rod or which
the solid end.
The knobs which are at the ends Of
the glass where it splits in the middle
are all cut and made in this plant,
which are in two pieces and inter-
locking, and when these are completed
they are assembled and the frame Is
complete and ready for the glazier
who inserts the glass, puts a cushion
of rubber all air and water-tight about
the glass to give substantial rest and
hold on the glass and the shield is
complete.
Every item used in these window
shields manufactured by Parish &
Gather is purchased through Los An
geles houses, so that it is purely a local
institution and with the large force of
skilled mechanics engaged in the plant
is doing its full share toward develop
ing the industrial enterprises of this
city, which are growing with regu-
larity.
These are the institutions which are
to be and should be fostered in Los
Angeles, and every one should see that
their wares are Los Angeles made, thus
adding to the payroll of the city and
bringing to it a well-to-do class of
workmen, steady in their employment,
such as have Parish &c Gather.