New Britain herald., 1924-04-03
F YOU DRIVE YOU
 DEPEND ON FAFNIR
Nearly Every Auto Uses Fainir
 Bearings in Some Part

In 1910 the Hart X Cooley Co. came to the conclusion that develop ment.in the automobile business made fl advisable to enter the bali bearing market, and accordingly depart ment was established. for this pro- duet. So great was the expansion of the business that this department gradually absorbed other departments and finally the entire plant, so that today the buildings formerly occu- pied by Hart X Cooley now house the Iafnir Bearing Co.. manufacturers of ball bearings for nearly every make of automobile in tine entire world. This also includes anto trucks and mot0rcyclcs.
 At the outset. men were sent to Europe. at that time the center ot ball bearing proluctioa Methods ot manufacture were studied and bet tcrmenis suggested. After years eS- pefimenlng. the fufnir Hearing 60, was ofeanized with capital of $5e,- 0ee.
 While il MAS foua flla, mneh work doRe by hand in Europe could he better done by specially designed ma chimes here. it was also fopnd that certain processes could not be handled automatically. Il was, then. necessary to build up q force of skilled worhmen.
 An idea of the requirements of ball bearing manufacture cah bc gained when il is considered thai the hore on average bearings must Dc within four ten-tronsandtlis Of an inch and the outside diameter within .siA or seven ten-thousandths of an inch The balls are guaranteed To be within one ten-ihousandtl Of an inch. Hence the need for skilled, trained mechanics in this business.
 Tho original capitalization of sa0.- oD0 has since been increased to sl,- bd0.no0: the i.5on square feet Of floor space In the original factory war merged in the present plants afford. ing ean,6o0 square feet Of space; the grinding department, consisting Of ono man and a helper. is now q blst- ling factory department with more than score of skilled workmen and assistants; while the office force of two persons is supplanted by large trained force. and tho i5 men that nt first made up the force is now in- creased 10 between sp0 and 900 work men, Az first there were no sales mon. an agency handling the com panss business. Now % salesmtn tenr Inc country displaying and dem- onstrating lfafnir products.
 Although orgn nizrd for the part |; would play in the automobile field, fhe company also turns ont batrinss for machine tools. electric motors. vacuum cleaners, washing machines, floor scrnbbinG machines. ete. Nnm- bered among the patrons of lafnirs gre Inc Cleveland and iIendcc Motor csrin companies.
 Nearly every Ford generator in uso has fafnir bearings and every Dodge transmission Is 70 equipped. The Pierce Arrow, hnpmnbile. Rirkeu- backnr. stnarns, Eepnulie Walker Vehicle. Federal Garfori, I,ugglss, ftfA ftkf 4AtAih hHiI bAlfFt AEtHa iihlP with l'arnir bearings Many Hutomo. bile companies purchase their trans mysions and aSlcs from other nang- Jacturrrs, and therefore q large num- her of cHrs are t'afnir equipped though tha sales arc not made di- rect to inc manufacturer.
 Makers nf electric starting and lighting systems, grinding spindles, stc., arc nn the l'afnir sales lists in great numbers and in recent years there las been steadily increasing market for line shaft boxes equipped viih Fafnir bearings,
 ln a few words, tho aim of the roinpanf from inc start has been 10 develop now fields for tho application of ball bearings to stabilize tho bnsi- ness and mako il m far as possible. free from dangers from fluctuations in any ono industry.
 The present officers are: II. S. Hart. chairman pf tho board: r.. II. Cooper. president. R. F. Searlos, yfcn- lpresideni: Maurice Stanley. vice. president and secretary; \. G. Way. treasurer. F. r. Atwatef. assistant treasurer: l.. T.. Carter. assistant sec retary; T.. <. Hemenyay, assistant secretary.