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* * -. I i. . I.- * 4 44 I. * -• * . ---7 **.---- --. ....'- 036---- 'SCOTTY's' TRUCKS STORY OF THE GOODYEAR FLEET RELIANCE No. 3 When, in 1909 it was suddenly real-ized that Goodyear business had grown to the point where horses could no longer take care of the hauling, the power truck became the crying quea-tion of the hour. There are something like one hnndred and twenty different makes of motor trucks, on tho-market and the problem of choosing•ithe most excellent wirs one of some weight. W. C. State, wao had the mattir kn dharge at that titne, chose The Reliance. inan- .4 ufaetured by the General Motors Track _Comp,ny, of OwbAso, Michiganrand-the--s GOOD YEAlb the much greater strains to which these vehicles are subjected, the driving of a heavy truck offers difficulties not to be. met with by the driver of an ordinary auto. BILL STATE'S SHOOT-FEST L. M. BOURNE, CUP-WINNER The Factory Couneil reeently held a shoot at the Terkeyfoot Club. Though the start was made early in ilie aflt:Illuull, ilie party-did not reach t,he lake till three o 'clock. , Among other accidents C. E. Falor ,hit the aitch, his auto being finally rescued by :E. R. Hall in his powerful runabout. All the contestants in the shoot were generously handicapped; and after the BIG UPROAR . .----.. --I............,. CANADIAN GOODYEAR PRE PARING TO CELEBRATE PROGRAM OF PICNIC The 2d annual pienie of The Good-year Tire & Rubber Company, Ltd., will be held on Friday, July 19th, at the middle island in Toronto Bay. There will be a special train on the Grand Trunk Railroad, and the people of Bor¥nianville Will have the surprise of their lives when they see a life-sized passenger, train actually starting from town. This will be the first passenger train that has ever left Bowmanville town, as heretofore passengers via G. T. R. have had to ride,•by bus about This is a very-- great concession for a very great oe-liasion and willbe appreciated by -the eniployees' generally. The Bowmanville crowd will be joined at -Toronto by the people from the general oilice, there. Tlle tug- '-war events will be great features, t say nothing of the two liaseball ga es, and Harry Brimacombe, tlie ' of the yard gan(r claims 0, moke-had-eleared-awayrit-was-found I 13 miles-to the station. that E. H. Brooks had broken 18 out of 25, and Bourne and Hall, 14 out of 25. On account of the handieaps, the three were given a score of 24 Bpiece and allowed to shoot it off-Mr. Bourne walking away with the eup. Second Assistant Superintendent Stevens being dissatisfied with this out-come, took up the matter with Falor, • and together they went over tlie liill • th:Lt 011-Flif his Bulgarians can go 100 aud shot at ground sparrows till tl ),·ir I y:ircls iri less tlian teri seeoncls with rub-experience of the past three years nas proven that his judgement was correct. The Reliance has a very roomy body in relation to its wheel base, an·d in point of serviceableness is generally coneeded to be one of the best trucks made: The lirst Reliance ( No. 1 ) was received on May 15, 1909; and a driver was in readiness when the truck ar-rived. This. driver was none other than < 4 Scotty " who has*een with The Good-year ever since. . For two years he drove No. 1, occasionally getting into serapes and mud from which he had to be helped out, but all the while tak-ing the best care of his machine. Business continued to grow at a mar-velous rate, and in 1911 another Re-lianee was ordered. No. 1 was turned over to a new driver while f 6 Scotty" • Medina. ' 3 Only recently a third Reliance has been added to the factory ileet. 4 4 Scotty" managed to put in ten aays at Owosso learning this one, dnd would have driven it baek overland had it not been for inclement weather. It was finally shipped in a box-car and arrived,· on May 25. The Goodyear trucks see mueh ser-vice, making about thirty miIes a day, loaded one-way always and a greater • part of the time, both. The capacity of No. 1 is threetons, while No. 2 and 3 are of three and a half tons each, and .they are all loaded to their full present two men are sent along•.with each truck in addition to the driver. Fred Carn now drives Reliance No. 1, and Emmet Barry No. 2; 44 Scotty, " 6ldest in point of service, drives Reli-ance No. 3, ar,(1 iR e.hn.rEPA 042ixr;+t1l,,9 care and upkeep of the entire fleet. He keeps an aceurate record of repairs, replaeements and new tires, and the efficiency of the Goodyear trucks . is · in no small degree due to his knowledge and abilities. The factory also maintains a forty horse-power Velie light delivery wagon for rush orders around town and for all light deliveries that . require fast work. The mail is hauled by a FodL runabdut, a speedy car which has stoo-*Tr RELIANCE NO. 3 I.i-- I. I ...... . 7. ' 1 n %4 ······· 1.··· ·· · ···· ·· ····.. · --·- - -- 042 0.4·2·r ---A0-42--, -04424.•-- 0402--4•92.--·.-,.-,. . .1 . shells ran out. Aill claims he killed lier hqots on, so the_10« _yard_-dashJ -Otin but -a feather En ESE-nail-were should. be a '4 dandy " event. not regarded as conelusive evidence by the rest of the party: Chicken and fish figured largely on I the menu of a sumptuous dinner which followed the shoot. NOTICE' Partly owing to the extremely hot weather and partly to the fact that tlie, Oxperimental mills, calenciers *an<1 presses are in the basemdrit of the laboratory just beneath the floor of the assembly room, stifferable, meetings or the Goodyear Technical Society wjll be suspended, by All the Goodyear power wagons have displayed unexampled wearing qualities 11- - 036 1-- , reflecting erpilit· 0•--1;410-0nagement-eg--:00•lar -710Re who bought them as well as on - their drivers. On account of the great variation in loacl from hoAir to hoiir, On the last page of this issue appears the program of sports., The Canadian Goodyear baseball r.leaill liave playgd . seven giillies - this I season, winning three and losing four. $ Their last two games have rather taken r the 47 guimpe " out, of the fellows for I the present; but they are all doing the 4 4 come back act" now, and hope some r day to bd able to come and knock the , spots off the ·Akron bunch. Captain • Bill Ka,venagh is the only old 44 Prd," while Jim Scales played for University making the heat in-, of Ma1ne, and Sisler still holds his place Monday, September 2, when the ' Aerer nautical Section.will hold its sixth , flonoiolle i .I...I...0 -- - The program of tliis meeting will be annolineed in <1110 time, both in tlie Wingfoot Clan :in,1 liy lettt,r on tlie team. The American Colony a:t Bowmanville a ei le orious our )Y a grand-Reworks--display:-Seriator-•Rabl-ert Beith kindly lent the training 1.. _r· gruilirrtrTIT-1TtrTIET'm foid flle -oce:ision. Grave looks oft hide n vacant min•l, Tlic, 1,rightest eves nre somc,tiTIies blirid. _MEN AT 'THE FRONT' THE BOOZE-FIGHTING SALES MAN A BACK-NUMBER QUALITIES NOW REQUIRED Many people think a salesman's job guarantees light work and all sorts of good times, for all of which he gets a lot of easy money. ·This is far from be-ing the truth-at least so far as Good-year salesmen go. Our salesmen have to work hard for their living. Thu55-Whol-try to get on without this hard work don't last very long *with us. As for the easy money, our junior salesmen will not average as high per month as experienced tire makers. -- . 4 Traveling men used to bear bad repu. tations. They were--all-thought-to-be-toughs and rounders. You have all • heard yarns about the old time drummer .. and his stunts. He -wa•s supposed by all good folks to, be entirely without morals. A salesman's position today is one of much greater dignity than it was bventy, ten or expn •ve years ago. Manufacturers and wholesalers now pay mora attention by far to the develop- I ment of their salesmen along the right I lines than they formerly ; paid. They are looking for good, clean, healthy, ' hard working young men with brains. It used to be considefred that the 4 4 goo.d fellow ' 1 who had the necessasy qualities of mind and body, to enable him to stand up under the biggest load of booze, was the fellow who made the best s-alesman. He sold goods on his trulft'% 0 0 r But times have c anged. The new *pe of salesman is a -- n Competition has forced im to a an on the old methods. He ean no longer stay up all night with his customer, and drmk him. into an order. Business is not conducted on that basis: There are Irlore eoffsiderations involved in "the placing of air order than the mere per-sonality of a salesman. The salesman miist show his customer that he has an article which will make that -customer money, either because it requires less effort to sell-on· account of its being better known or better advertised--or on account of ita better . reputation among •users,.or on cheap goods he must talk big margins of profit and low riees. - ..1. Heinz0- or instance, ompany gets a bigger price from the grocer for their 57 varieties than the packer who puts up a brand less extensively adver-tived, and probably cheaper in quality. Tn other words, the groeer makes a smaller profit on lieinz ' products than he will on another which might fill the. same place on his shelves: The sales. man must show the grocer that he will make more money on Heinz' goods, be-cause he will sell more of them than of eheaper grades, and thus clean up more (16llars though he sells the goods. on a lower percentage of profit. The salesman of a concern such as this must : have at his •nger tips all these arguments about easy sales. etc. 9 hat a salesman be a goo* ta er; e nnus ave a thorough knowledge of his line. A salesman on Goodyear tires cannot Igo ' out :ind.expdEr-ED make a slteZORK ' 1 unless he knows more about liis tire 2 than the Inpn cloes to whom 11r is 14011. i ( Continued on page t.hr<,e ) . 1 .6-I 4 . . 1 l 6 4 * ....--I -•... I.. -- ....ill.....- -I . . ............- 036. ...../.-----I-I .---I=.- .--.....-*----.......)-I.--I-I-- 1. . 3 * . ..ar - J J - . -I- ---T• I.......-' - r r .4 - L - 1 . , * /. ,---I....•*/'ll.--. I , I. -111•• '1*1 . I. 3 1. .11.*.*. 036 , i.3 t' 41 2< * ./ - 4 .1 *4.,1, 1.. 44 t: 7 , ·61 036. 1 .. 4 I 4 9 3, * - -- I A.'.- & i No. 2 and drive it home to Akron. He .. *; 6, "., 0 , '., : , ./ - .. *. ,. 1 9 1., : I was in Owosso two weeks returnin by ' 1* . + , " ,. t 1. * , 4 + , 11 21'5 t -. * . *.- II . . * ./... 1 '. 4 * # .. 1* ) . . J '. . k '. + M ... '' " 9 * <• I. ., '. Al > 1 0' 03¢6'' / b# . . . 042w,r..a .4 * 56 4 2 : t , ./ , r .4 */ .8 ...,9 Ar. R, . ). * 13. + I. * /4 - 4 / 4, .,* 1 + . '1 1 6 4 V . 4, 4 . ..' I t..''ll 1,0 4 44 - 0421 * 1, 0 . I 4 .. I I All ., e * 9 * .. * T
Object Description
Title | The Wingfoot Clan (Akron edition), Vol. 1, No. 4 (July 15, 1912) |
Creator | Goodyear Tire and Rubber Company |
Date Original | 1912-07-15 |
Date Notes | July 15, 1912 |
Description | The 'Wingfoot Clan' is the employee newsletter of The Goodyear Tire & Rubber Company. The publication consists of numerous editions including the Akron Edition, the Aircraft Edition, and special editions. |
Link to Finding Aid Repository | http://cdm15960.contentdm.oclc.org/cdm/landingpage/collection/p15960coll3 |
Subject Terms |
Goodyear Tire and Rubber Company--Periodicals Goodyear Tire and Rubber Company--Employees--Periodicals |
Location | Akron (Ohio) |
Type | Text |
Publisher | Goodyear Tire and Rubber Company |
Digital Publisher | University of Akron. Archival Services |
Date Digitized | 2012-09-07 |
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Collection Category | Rubber Industry |
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Description
Title | 07-15-1912 1 |
Type | Text |
Source Collection | Goodyear Tire and Rubber Company Records |
Medium | periodicals |
Collection Category | Rubber Industry |
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UA Department | Archival Services |
Website | http://www.uakron.edu/libraries/archives/ |
Contact Information | The University of Akron, Archival Services, Polsky Building, Room LL10, 225 South Main Street, Akron, OH 44325-1702, Phone: 330-972-7670, Fax: 330-972-6170, E-mail: archives@uakron.edu |
transcript | * * -. I i. . I.- * 4 44 I. * -• * . ---7 **.---- --. ....'- 036---- 'SCOTTY's' TRUCKS STORY OF THE GOODYEAR FLEET RELIANCE No. 3 When, in 1909 it was suddenly real-ized that Goodyear business had grown to the point where horses could no longer take care of the hauling, the power truck became the crying quea-tion of the hour. There are something like one hnndred and twenty different makes of motor trucks, on tho-market and the problem of choosing•ithe most excellent wirs one of some weight. W. C. State, wao had the mattir kn dharge at that titne, chose The Reliance. inan- .4 ufaetured by the General Motors Track _Comp,ny, of OwbAso, Michiganrand-the--s GOOD YEAlb the much greater strains to which these vehicles are subjected, the driving of a heavy truck offers difficulties not to be. met with by the driver of an ordinary auto. BILL STATE'S SHOOT-FEST L. M. BOURNE, CUP-WINNER The Factory Couneil reeently held a shoot at the Terkeyfoot Club. Though the start was made early in ilie aflt:Illuull, ilie party-did not reach t,he lake till three o 'clock. , Among other accidents C. E. Falor ,hit the aitch, his auto being finally rescued by :E. R. Hall in his powerful runabout. All the contestants in the shoot were generously handicapped; and after the BIG UPROAR . .----.. --I............,. CANADIAN GOODYEAR PRE PARING TO CELEBRATE PROGRAM OF PICNIC The 2d annual pienie of The Good-year Tire & Rubber Company, Ltd., will be held on Friday, July 19th, at the middle island in Toronto Bay. There will be a special train on the Grand Trunk Railroad, and the people of Bor¥nianville Will have the surprise of their lives when they see a life-sized passenger, train actually starting from town. This will be the first passenger train that has ever left Bowmanville town, as heretofore passengers via G. T. R. have had to ride,•by bus about This is a very-- great concession for a very great oe-liasion and willbe appreciated by -the eniployees' generally. The Bowmanville crowd will be joined at -Toronto by the people from the general oilice, there. Tlle tug- '-war events will be great features, t say nothing of the two liaseball ga es, and Harry Brimacombe, tlie ' of the yard gan(r claims 0, moke-had-eleared-awayrit-was-found I 13 miles-to the station. that E. H. Brooks had broken 18 out of 25, and Bourne and Hall, 14 out of 25. On account of the handieaps, the three were given a score of 24 Bpiece and allowed to shoot it off-Mr. Bourne walking away with the eup. Second Assistant Superintendent Stevens being dissatisfied with this out-come, took up the matter with Falor, • and together they went over tlie liill • th:Lt 011-Flif his Bulgarians can go 100 aud shot at ground sparrows till tl ),·ir I y:ircls iri less tlian teri seeoncls with rub-experience of the past three years nas proven that his judgement was correct. The Reliance has a very roomy body in relation to its wheel base, an·d in point of serviceableness is generally coneeded to be one of the best trucks made: The lirst Reliance ( No. 1 ) was received on May 15, 1909; and a driver was in readiness when the truck ar-rived. This. driver was none other than < 4 Scotty " who has*een with The Good-year ever since. . For two years he drove No. 1, occasionally getting into serapes and mud from which he had to be helped out, but all the while tak-ing the best care of his machine. Business continued to grow at a mar-velous rate, and in 1911 another Re-lianee was ordered. No. 1 was turned over to a new driver while f 6 Scotty" • Medina. ' 3 Only recently a third Reliance has been added to the factory ileet. 4 4 Scotty" managed to put in ten aays at Owosso learning this one, dnd would have driven it baek overland had it not been for inclement weather. It was finally shipped in a box-car and arrived,· on May 25. The Goodyear trucks see mueh ser-vice, making about thirty miIes a day, loaded one-way always and a greater • part of the time, both. The capacity of No. 1 is threetons, while No. 2 and 3 are of three and a half tons each, and .they are all loaded to their full present two men are sent along•.with each truck in addition to the driver. Fred Carn now drives Reliance No. 1, and Emmet Barry No. 2; 44 Scotty, " 6ldest in point of service, drives Reli-ance No. 3, ar,(1 iR e.hn.rEPA 042ixr;+t1l,,9 care and upkeep of the entire fleet. He keeps an aceurate record of repairs, replaeements and new tires, and the efficiency of the Goodyear trucks . is · in no small degree due to his knowledge and abilities. The factory also maintains a forty horse-power Velie light delivery wagon for rush orders around town and for all light deliveries that . require fast work. The mail is hauled by a FodL runabdut, a speedy car which has stoo-*Tr RELIANCE NO. 3 I.i-- I. I ...... . 7. ' 1 n %4 ······· 1.··· ·· · ···· ·· ····.. · --·- - -- 042 0.4·2·r ---A0-42--, -04424.•-- 0402--4•92.--·.-,.-,. . .1 . shells ran out. Aill claims he killed lier hqots on, so the_10« _yard_-dashJ -Otin but -a feather En ESE-nail-were should. be a '4 dandy " event. not regarded as conelusive evidence by the rest of the party: Chicken and fish figured largely on I the menu of a sumptuous dinner which followed the shoot. NOTICE' Partly owing to the extremely hot weather and partly to the fact that tlie, Oxperimental mills, calenciers *an<1 presses are in the basemdrit of the laboratory just beneath the floor of the assembly room, stifferable, meetings or the Goodyear Technical Society wjll be suspended, by All the Goodyear power wagons have displayed unexampled wearing qualities 11- - 036 1-- , reflecting erpilit· 0•--1;410-0nagement-eg--:00•lar -710Re who bought them as well as on - their drivers. On account of the great variation in loacl from hoAir to hoiir, On the last page of this issue appears the program of sports., The Canadian Goodyear baseball r.leaill liave playgd . seven giillies - this I season, winning three and losing four. $ Their last two games have rather taken r the 47 guimpe " out, of the fellows for I the present; but they are all doing the 4 4 come back act" now, and hope some r day to bd able to come and knock the , spots off the ·Akron bunch. Captain • Bill Ka,venagh is the only old 44 Prd," while Jim Scales played for University making the heat in-, of Ma1ne, and Sisler still holds his place Monday, September 2, when the ' Aerer nautical Section.will hold its sixth , flonoiolle i .I...I...0 -- - The program of tliis meeting will be annolineed in <1110 time, both in tlie Wingfoot Clan :in,1 liy lettt,r on tlie team. The American Colony a:t Bowmanville a ei le orious our )Y a grand-Reworks--display:-Seriator-•Rabl-ert Beith kindly lent the training 1.. _r· gruilirrtrTIT-1TtrTIET'm foid flle -oce:ision. Grave looks oft hide n vacant min•l, Tlic, 1,rightest eves nre somc,tiTIies blirid. _MEN AT 'THE FRONT' THE BOOZE-FIGHTING SALES MAN A BACK-NUMBER QUALITIES NOW REQUIRED Many people think a salesman's job guarantees light work and all sorts of good times, for all of which he gets a lot of easy money. ·This is far from be-ing the truth-at least so far as Good-year salesmen go. Our salesmen have to work hard for their living. Thu55-Whol-try to get on without this hard work don't last very long *with us. As for the easy money, our junior salesmen will not average as high per month as experienced tire makers. -- . 4 Traveling men used to bear bad repu. tations. They were--all-thought-to-be-toughs and rounders. You have all • heard yarns about the old time drummer .. and his stunts. He -wa•s supposed by all good folks to, be entirely without morals. A salesman's position today is one of much greater dignity than it was bventy, ten or expn •ve years ago. Manufacturers and wholesalers now pay mora attention by far to the develop- I ment of their salesmen along the right I lines than they formerly ; paid. They are looking for good, clean, healthy, ' hard working young men with brains. It used to be considefred that the 4 4 goo.d fellow ' 1 who had the necessasy qualities of mind and body, to enable him to stand up under the biggest load of booze, was the fellow who made the best s-alesman. He sold goods on his trulft'% 0 0 r But times have c anged. The new *pe of salesman is a -- n Competition has forced im to a an on the old methods. He ean no longer stay up all night with his customer, and drmk him. into an order. Business is not conducted on that basis: There are Irlore eoffsiderations involved in "the placing of air order than the mere per-sonality of a salesman. The salesman miist show his customer that he has an article which will make that -customer money, either because it requires less effort to sell-on· account of its being better known or better advertised--or on account of ita better . reputation among •users,.or on cheap goods he must talk big margins of profit and low riees. - ..1. Heinz0- or instance, ompany gets a bigger price from the grocer for their 57 varieties than the packer who puts up a brand less extensively adver-tived, and probably cheaper in quality. Tn other words, the groeer makes a smaller profit on lieinz ' products than he will on another which might fill the. same place on his shelves: The sales. man must show the grocer that he will make more money on Heinz' goods, be-cause he will sell more of them than of eheaper grades, and thus clean up more (16llars though he sells the goods. on a lower percentage of profit. The salesman of a concern such as this must : have at his •nger tips all these arguments about easy sales. etc. 9 hat a salesman be a goo* ta er; e nnus ave a thorough knowledge of his line. A salesman on Goodyear tires cannot Igo ' out :ind.expdEr-ED make a slteZORK ' 1 unless he knows more about liis tire 2 than the Inpn cloes to whom 11r is 14011. i ( Continued on page t.hr<,e ) . 1 .6-I 4 . . 1 l 6 4 * ....--I -•... I.. -- ....ill.....- -I . . ............- 036. ...../.-----I-I .---I=.- .--.....-*----.......)-I.--I-I-- 1. . 3 * . ..ar - J J - . -I- ---T• I.......-' - r r .4 - L - 1 . , * /. ,---I....•*/'ll.--. I , I. -111•• '1*1 . I. 3 1. .11.*.*. 036 , i.3 t' 41 2< * ./ - 4 .1 *4.,1, 1.. 44 t: 7 , ·61 036. 1 .. 4 I 4 9 3, * - -- I A.'.- & i No. 2 and drive it home to Akron. He .. *; 6, "., 0 , '., : , ./ - .. *. ,. 1 9 1., : I was in Owosso two weeks returnin by ' 1* . + , " ,. t 1. * , 4 + , 11 21'5 t -. * . *.- II . . * ./... 1 '. 4 * # .. 1* ) . . J '. . k '. + M ... '' " 9 * <• I. ., '. Al > 1 0' 03¢6'' / b# . . . 042w,r..a .4 * 56 4 2 : t , ./ , r .4 */ .8 ...,9 Ar. R, . ). * 13. + I. * /4 - 4 / 4, .,* 1 + . '1 1 6 4 V . 4, 4 . ..' I t..''ll 1,0 4 44 - 0421 * 1, 0 . I 4 .. I I All ., e * 9 * .. * T |