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Manuel Arts Furniture Co. Begins
Erection of New Modern Plant
Due to a steadily increasing demand
for their piano benches throughout the
country, as well as other items which
are manufactured by them, the Manual
expects to occupy this modern plant
around April 1st. 1954.
Having manufactured piano benches
for the last 36 years, this is the third
made "to a price" for use with old up-
rights, to more complicated and ad-
justible type artist benches for use in
school, conservatories and on the stage
for concert work.
The officers of the company are Har-
ry E. Shearin, President; Hubert S.
Shearin, his son, Secretary and Treas-
urer. In the middle west and west, the
company is represented by Paul L.
Jansen and his associates. Paul L. Jan-
sen, Jr. and Thomas Poeschl. Sacks &
Barandes, New York, represents the
company in the east.
Wurlitzer Report Shows Steady
Improvement Since Strike
Although the report on the consoli-
dated operations of the Rudolph Wur-
litzer Co. for the first six months of
the fiscal year, April to September in-
clusive, showed a loss which was caused
by a long strike at the company's
Tonawanda plant, at the meeting of the
Board of Directors on November 6th a
dividend of 20c per share was ordered
paid on December 1st, 1953 to share-
HARRY E. SHEARIN, PRESIDENT AND HUBERT S. SHEARIN, SEC-TREASURER.
holders of record at the close of the
time that the company has had to in- business November 13th, 1953.
Arts Furniture Co., Cincinnati. Ohio,
According to the report made by
has found it necessary to start the con- crease its facilities. The complete line
K. C. Rolfing, President, "Sales for
includes chairs, benches for the exact
struction of a new factory in the heart
of Cincinnati's industrial section, where
manufacturing will all be on one floor.
This new plant will give the company
double its manufacturing facilities and
there is quite a bit of ground sur-
rounding the plant for additional ex-
pansion when necessary.
According to Hubert S. Shearin, Sec-
retary and Treasurer of the company,
the expansion has been necessitated
not only because of the ever-increasing
volume of business, but a'so in order
to supply dealers with prompt deliv-
eries of the several hundred diherent
styles of piano benches which they
have available.
ARCHITECTS DRAWING OF NEW PLANT STARTED BY
The new building will be of poured
MANUAL ARTS FURNITURE CO.
concrete construction and will have the
advantages of offstreet loading and un- matching of all new popular new pi- the first six months were $14,422.-
133.32 as compared with $14,951.-
loading, as well as employee and cus- ano lines, as well as incidental items
851.00
for the same period a year ago.
from
inexpensive
benches
tomer parking facilities. The company
rangin
"All divisions of the Company oper-
ated at a profit during the second quar-
ter except the North Tonawanda Divi-
THE PIANO SENSATION OF THE YEAR
sion. The North Tonawanda Division,
however, operated at a substantial profit
during ihe month of September but
of London
S M A L L E S T
S P I N E T
P I A N O
the profit was not sufficient to over-
Height 2' 10" • Width 4' 10" • Depth V 8V 2 "
come the heavy July and August
GRAND PIANOS, only 4 feet and 4 feet 6 inches
losses.
Many dealers now handling these pianos on
"Present production of pianos, coin-
exclusive franchise basis. Your territory may be
operated
phonographs, electronic or-
open. Complete stock warehoused in New York.
gans and related equipment is at a sat-
Address inquiries to:
isfactory level. Recent retail sales have
not been up to expectations but we
e/o WESER PIANO CO.. Agents, 524 W. 43rd St., NEW YORK. N. Y.
anticipate a marked increase for the
balance of this year."
The KEMBLE
Kemble Piano Company
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THE MUSIC TRADE REVIEW. NOVEMBER, 1953