The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1913-12-01
BOARD OF TRADE LAUDS NOR WALK MANUFACTURER Plant to Be Built Just Over the Line in the Town of
 Stratford
TO GIVE WORK TO 100
 SKILLED MECHANICS
Special Machinery, Auto Parts, Miniature and Mov- ing Picture M 8 h in e S Among the Products.

The removal to this vicinity of the
 plant in East Norwalk, hitherto known as the NorwaIk Engineering Co. was made known today by the
 joint announcement of William J. Bartley, head of the enterprise, and Fred Enos, president of the Board of Trade.
 MT. BartIey and his associates have secured a, plot of land just over the division line in Stratford at Bruce ave nue and Seymour street, a stone throw from the E. H. H. Smith Silver Co.,, and the foundations have been laid for a factory building of mill con struction 50 by 150 feet, three stories in height. MT. Bartley expects to start business by March 1, with up wards of 100 skilled mechanics. The style Of the business has been chang
 ed from 'fIorwalk Engineering Co., to Bridgeport Engineer Go, whereat MT. Esnos, who is always on the alert to boost Bridgeport is elated. The fact that the plant is in the town
 limits of Stratford detracts but little
 from Collector Enos' qualification for
 he believes the enterprise will bring to the city a number of desirable resi- dents.
 MT. Bart1ey talked freely of the work of his concern and outlined his plans. He said that at present. the plant in Norwalk gives employment to about 30 skilled mechapics, principally ma chinists and toolmakers, and that the business has grown so that the pres ent plant is inadequate and that much work is done outside.
 He founded the plant about four and one half years ago as a means towards carrying out a number of his own ideas in mechanical workssand he has done considerable work for the government. One of his machines of which he speaks with especial pride is located in the treasury build ing in Washington for testing the ten sile strength of metals. So power full yet so delicate is the machine, that it will record with equal accur- acy the tensile strength of a four inch block of steel, and the pull re- quired to break a human hair. He received a big compliment from Prof. Stratton of the Bureau of Standards in Washington.
 Besides his work on special machin- cry, MT. Bartley has done much in the perfection of combustion motors of various types. At present he is at work on a machine for the manufac- ture of paper cans.
 He said that the Bridgeport plant will be kept busy with the manufac- ture of parts of the Dunlap Auto Wire wheels, the contracts for hubs and parts of which are in hand. The Norwalk plant has been working to it's full capacity with night shifts to fill these contracts, said he, and the business is bound to reach big pro- portions. He was confident that this work alone would give employment to from 100 to 150 men.
 Another feature of his business is the manufacture of a home moving picture machine, which, through film exchanges, is planned to place tha world of animated photography with in as easy access of the parlor as the musical world is placed through the The motion picture ma chine is to sell for s25.
 MT. Bartley owns the patents of electric and compressed air tractors for locomotive turn tables ,and on hoists operated through the same forms of power. These have a future in the. South American trade, he pre- diets. Metal saw tables are another output
 MT. Bartley said that his concern was induced to come to this vicinity through the activities of the Board of Trade, and particularly expressed his pleasure at the courtesy and in terest of it's president, MT. Enos. It was through him that they were p1ac- ed In touch with their factory site.