The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-05-11
INTERNATIONAL
 BUYS BIC PLANT
Takes Over the Business of Parlin & Orendorff Go.
 of Canton

The announcement that the Interna- tional Harvester company has pur- chased the manufacturing plant and business of the Parlin & Orendorff company of Canton, H., has aroused great interest in the agricultural inn plement trade. News of the transac-
 tion was received by Mir " NJ. Smith.
 the Harvester company's branch mana ger here in telegram from the Chi cago office
 The P. & 0. company. as it is popu
 larly known, is one of the pioneer blow manufacturers of America. The pres ent extensive plant at Canton, Ill., is the outgrowth of blacksmith shop. which William Parlin started in 1s42. The ?. X 0. line of blows and tillsge implements is well known and largely used throughout the agricultural world. 1t has branch houses at Kansas City. Minneapolis. Omaha, St. Louis, Dallas, Portland. Ore; Denver, Sioux Fall. Oklahoma City and Spokane In addi ton stocks of P. o. goods will also be taken over at the following trans fer points: Alloway, N. J.; Atlanta, Ga; Amerillo. Tex. Cedar Rapids, la; Char lotte, N. C.; Columbus, O.; Decatur Ill; Des Moines, la; Dubuque. Ia; Horsey, Va; Houston, Tex; Indianapolis, Ind; Macon, Ga; Madison, Wis; Memphis, Tenn; Nashville, Tenn; Pasco. Wash; Shreveport, La; Stanton, Del, and Tar boro, N. C.
 In announcing the purchase of the P. X o. line, President Harold F. Me Cormick of the International Harvester company, says:
 T am pleased to advise the liar vester organization that the company has purchased the manufacturing plant and business of the Parlin Orendorff | fpFlfoa n gt1xr @f s~-,Y t1, Tl,t A- the list of Harvester manufacturers the one important farm implement which it has not heretofore produced. When the Harvester company was formed in 1902 it manufactured chief ly harvesting machines It has since gradually added other implements and with the addition of the blow, it is now in 8 position to manufacture and supply to the farmers a complete line of all the important implements used in agriculture. T believe that this addition to the Harvester company's products will be warmly welcomed by our sales organ ization and by the implement dealers who handle International goods. s Under the terms of the purchase, the Harvester company takes posses sion of the P. o. manufacturing plant and of the various branch houses and inventories on July l. 19t9 It will take over the business as go- ing concern and the P. & o. organiza- tion will on that date become part of the Harvester organization and the business will thereafter be conducted by it and in it's name. The Harvester company has not purchased the bills and accounts receivable of the Parlin X Orendorff company, but these will be collected and liquidated by that company"
 Branch Manager Smith of the Har-
 yester company, when asked about it's
 plans for handling the additional blow business at Atlanta, stated that it
 would be carried as part of the com pany's present business and that no consideration had as yet been given to the question of what additional facili- ties, in the way of warehouse and stor- age space, would be- required With reference to the effect of this
 purchase up9n local business. Mir. I Smith said:
 Implement dealers handling Inter national goods have long desired that | the Harvester company should include 1 blows as one of its lines. There is a growing tendency in the retail imple- | ment trade for the dealer to purchase as far as possible, from a single manu- facturer all the implements which he l carries, and to build Nup for himself will in that line of implements. The l Harvester company's line was already ! practically complete with the excep- | tion of blows; we will now be able to l offer to the dealer a full line of all ! the important farm implements needed ! In order to supply his trade
 I believe the users of the P. & O. line throughout the country will be well satisfied with this change. The
 F. X Q. line is popular with the trade l and is extensively sold but that com pany has only 10 branch houses in the l United States. whereas the Harvester ! company as SS. We hope that through l our facilities we will be able to give even more efficient and satisfactory ] service to the trade in P. & O. imple- I ments than it has received in the 1 past