The Wingfoot Clan (Akron edition), Vol. 1, No. 4 (July 15, 1912)

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'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
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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
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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
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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.
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