Oshawa Times (1958-), 16 Jan 1964, p. 22

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nigghapaies . . ey ea ee wats iiss a ee PR RE EG ne on aw 22 THE OSHAWA TIMES, Thuredey, Januery 16, 1964 'BUSINESS SPOTLIGHT SPE FMR KD oe oe gh MONTREAL (CP) -- Two ice- who built a motor- sled to save some legwork seen their idea blossom a booming business, tint and ---- Goulet of , Que., 310 miles , of Montes, decided six years ago they were of walking to their ice- site. solved the with a few lengths of , a pair of skis and an old chain-saw engine. ( The Goulet brothers sold their to Pioneer Chain Saws ., which began manufactur- the sleds under the name HusSki Lid. This subsidiary recently taken over by Johnson Wire Works Ltd. Under the Johnson regime, first power sled rolled off assembly line last July and to date has reached The rig consists of a sled on pits pulled by a two-cycle gaso- ine-engine tractor, The eight- horsepower model can reach speeds of 25 to 30 miles an hour under ideal snow conditions and he 9.5-horsepower sled can hit 40 miles an hour. PRODUCES 60 A DAY The company's plant in sub- 'urban Pointe Claire employs 200 persons to produce 60 sleds @ day. Uses for the machine range from cattle-herding in Western Canada to trapping and hunt- 'ing in the far north. In Cali- Motorized Sled Idea Booms Into Fortune fornia's Yosemite national park, one of the sleds had been equipped with a television cam- era to cover ski races. Company President 0. R. Brumell said in an interview: "We did not anticipate the in- ternational interest that would be shown in this new form of winter recreation." "For the past three months, we have been working two shifts a day and shipping ve- hicles as fast as we can make them." Mr. Brumell said. orders were coming from eight Canadian provinces and more than a dozen states in the U.S. The company was also doing Tobacco Sells At 52.14 Cents | TILLSONBURG (CP)--An avy- erage price of 52.14 cents a pound was realized for 2,147,241 pounds of tobacco auctioned at Ontario Flue - Cured Tobacce Growers' Marketing Board ex- changes Wednesday. To date, 64,739,158 pounds have sold at an average price of 51.57 cent | a pound. 4 | PRIMITIVE TOOL The mes'sha, traditional tool of farmers in Saudi Arabia, is a short-handled heavy hoe with a wrought-iron blade. Wn ie ST sh gah RPE business with Eskimos in Can- ada's northland, It costs 80 cents a mile to run a dog team, he said, and aT 0.8 of a cent for the power 8! . DON'T BITE "And 'our bite," he added "But, of course, they don't reproduce," Mr. Brumell told of a case where four hunters had trav- elled 120 miles on a power sled, shot 12 caribou and towed them back on an 18-foot Eskimo sled. 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