The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1928-11-30
Columbus Plant to Produce
Emergency Brake Part
for All.
PLANT SITE CONSIDERED
Evansville May Get Factory
of BiIIionaire Auto
Manufacturer.
BY CHARLES c. STONE
state Editor. The Times

Henry Ford was linked with the
most important events disclosed in
a business and industrial survey Of
Indiana for the week ended today.
The Columbus plant of Noblitt-
Sparks Industries, Inc, has signed a
contract to produce all emergency
brake levers for Ford cars, assuring
the 500 men now employed steady
work throughout the year. Ten
thousand of the levers are to be
produced each ten-hour working
day.
Possibility that a Ford plant may
be located at Evansville was dis
closed in negotiations between a
representative of the Millionaire auto
manufacturer and Louis Trockman
of the j. Trockman & Sons co. re-
garding a thirty-five-acre industrial
site adjoining tracks of the Chicago
Eastern Illinois railroad Adjoining
this tract, are two others of twenty
and ten acres, respectively.
Building Increases
Indiana building gained 4 per cent
in October over the same month last
year. Cities showing gains included
indianapolis, Lafayette, South Bend,
Logansport, Elkhart, Evansville, TT.
Wayne, Hammond and Kokomo.
The following summary shows
business and industrial conditions
in various Indiana cities:
Hammond-Car contracts placed
with the local plant of the Stand
ard Steel Car Company by the Chi
cago & Northwestern and Great
Northern railroads amount to
81 100000.
Mt. VernOn-ThiS city has OBJ
tanned branch plant of the Over
all Corporation of America. A
factory will be completed by the end
Of the year, giving employment to
100 at the start with force of 500
planned for the future. 1t is an
nounced that the Van Camp Pack
ing Company will operate it's toma-
to canning plant here next season.
1t was idle last season.
Vincenes-Plans for the new
George Rogers Clark hotel here call
for a structure seven to eight stories
high with rs rooms.
Marion Gets Plant.
MariOn-ThiS city has obtained
the Superior Paper Products Com
pany, whose plant at Paramount
was destroyed recently by fire. Pro-
duction has already started in a
building formerly occupied by the
Western Drop Forge Company.
Evansville - Officials of Serve,
Inc, announce that an addition
will be built to the local plant and
the working force increased 600 in
1929 Mayor Herbert Males an
nounceS that as soon as, pending
civic developments, including addi-
tional light and power facilities,
are completed, he will invite repre-
sentatives of industries here to con-
slider the city for plant locations. He
AndersOn-Arrival of steel which
had been delayed in shipment will
speed up erection of a 40x100 feet
addition to the Groble gas regulator
plant to care for a growing business.
observation-disclosures is being
made toward the third large stone
company merger in this field. It
is believed fourteen companies will
enter the combination. Auditors are
now working on books of the various
companies in preparation for COM
pleting the transaction.
BlufftOn-More than one hundred
persons are now employed in the H.
G. Bay piano plant recently dis
posed of at a receivers sale.
Terre Haute-The Highland Iron
and Steel Company is occupying a
recently completed addition to its
plant and has added sixty men to
the working force.
TT. Wayne-Schulte- United. Inc,
chain store organization, New
York, has signed a fifty-year lease
at 100000 on the quarters of its
store here. Four thousand persons
are now on the pay roll of the Dudlo
Manufacturing Company, the larg-
est force in its history. The COM
pa1y plans a $4,000 factory addi-
ton to be completed within sixty
days.
Geneva-Floyd Aspy has resumed
operation of the H. H. Baumgart-
ner Manufacturing Company plant
which he bought recently at re-
ceiver's sale. Upholstered furni-
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