Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1921-08-17

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ten years, and in some cases the tax
es will be considerable. The members
of the commission went from here
to Greenville to put on the same kind
of a survey.
Bids Received For Auto Plates.
The Pres-Teel Manufacturing and
Enameling Co. of Cincinnati
submitted the low bid for the manu-
facture of the 1922 automobile and
motor vehicle license plates at the
opening of bids by the state highway
department yesterday. This firm bid
.07S4 cents per plate on the larger
licenses and .O475 cents for each
motorcycle plate, a record low bid
on this kind of work it was said.
The contract calls for 113.S50
plates and the Cincinnati firm bid
approximately five cents each for
the motorcycle licenses.
Other bids received were: The
Green Duck company of Chicago, fiat
rate of nine cents each; The S. G.
Adams Stamp and Stationary Co. of
st. Louis, fiat rate of nine and one
half cents each; Joseph Stolz and
Sons, Inc, New York, fiat rate nine
and seven-eighths cents each; Nation
al Colortype company. Of Newport,
KY, 10 81 cents on automobile and
and seven cents each on motorcycle
plates; The American Can Co. Shonk
Works., haywood Ill, II, 16 rs and
10 Il cents.
Money Saved.
Department officials said yester
day. that they felt that considerable
money had been saved by accepting
bids at this time, due to a big drop
in steel prices and other material
used in making the plates. Had the
bids been received some sixty OF nine
ty days ago the figures would have
been much higher. No further time
could be spared, however, as the
manufacturers must have time to
get the plates made up and delivered
here by December 1 in time for their
delivery to the motor vehicle owners
between January 1 and February 1
of the new year.
Another phase of the bids yester-
day was the number of firms seeking
the work. In Georgia and Alabama a
few weeks ago when the states adj
vertised for bids only three or four
companies bid on the work. The 1921
plates cost IL cents for the larger
and nine and one-half cents for the
smaller.
No Formal Award.
AS stipulated in the advertisement
no award of contract will be formal
ly made until approved by the state
finance committee as no funds are
on hand for the work, due to a legis-
lative act forbidding the expenditure
of money before it is appropriated.
The low bid will be recommended to
the commission at its meeting Tues
day and the commission will probab-
" in turn recommend the bid to the
state finance committee.
Officials of the department have
changed the type of license plate this
year and will inaugurate a new sys-
tenn of delivery to automobile own
ers. The 1921 plate will have embos-
sed black letters and numerals on
a white background as compared
with a red background and black fig.
ures Of 1921.
4 Department officers have made 9
A study of different makes and diff.
4 ferent systems usedo by the severa
"A and expect to put South Carolina .
a bove all other states. Another plan e
abe followed the coming year will BIZ
Ito mail every automobile owner az
Replication blank, a notice that hi!
license is due and every detail neces
sary, leaving the owner nothing t.
do except send the application bacl
with a money order or a certified
bcheck. This information will be got
ten from the records now in the de
partmsnt.-The State.