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SEPTEMBER 23,
1922
THE
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TRADE
EDISON TAKES OVER KIPP BUSINESS
PHONOGRAPH FACTORY FOR CHINA
Prominent Indianapolis Edison Jobber Forced
to Retire Because of 111 Health—Edison In-
terests to Operate Business Under the Man-
agement of John M. Vandervoort
Massachusetts Man Leaves to Take Charge of
Selling End of New Enterprise
A. H. Curry, vice-president and manager of
Thomas A. Edison, Inc., announces that the Edi-
son interests have purchased the jobbing busi-
ness of Walter E. Kipp at Indianapolis, Ind.
The new organization will have for its name
Phonograph Corp. of Indiana. The headquar-
ters will be in Indianapolis and the territory
covered will be that tributary to this city. John
M. Vandervoort, who assumed his duties the
early part of September, is manager of this job-
bing organization.
Mr. Kipp, who has been an Edison jobber for
more than twenty years, has lately suffered
from extremely poor health. He was told by
his physicians that he could avoid serious con-
sequences only by completely severing his con-
nection with active business.
Apart from their regret at losing Mr. Kipp's
valuable and energetic services, the Edison in-
terests immediately decided that his business
was of too much importance to be entrusted to
strangers. They accordingly decided to form a
new corporation to take over the Indianapolis
jobbing business. This new corporation has
purchased the Kipp interests outright.
"Walter is really one of the family," said Mr.
Curry, when interviewed recently at West Or-
ange. "He would have been as discontented at
allowing new people to succeed to his business
as would we. We're going to try to carry on
the fine establishment he has built up with the
least possible number of changes."
It was Mr. Curry's intention to make a trip
to Indianapolis for the purpose of being present
at the inauguration of the new regime under
the management of John A. Vandervoort.
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NORTH ADAMS, MASS., September 15.—Harold
Bradley, of this city, who spent nearly five years
opening up sales agencies for the Standard Oil
Co. in China, is shortly to return to that coun-
try as sales manager for the first phonograph
factory to be established in the Celestial Re-
public, of which he is one of the promoters.
The company, organized by men of long and
intimate experience in Oriental commercial en-
terprises, has just been incorporated under the
laws of Canada, and Mr. Bradley will leave for
Montreal in about two weeks to take part in the
completion of the organization. He expects to
be ready to sail for China in about two months.
The factory for the manufacture of both
phonographs and records will be erected in
Shanghai, and will be under the supervision of
a man who for more than twenty years has
been prominently identified with both the ex-
perimental and manufacturing business in this
country.
At the outset the recording will be confined
entirely to the reproduction of Chinese music,
of which there is said to be an almost univer-
sal appreciation among all classes of Chinese.
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