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A series dedicated to 1940's advertising. Each cache is a look back at how the media portraid common products, some good, some bad. All of the locations will have something in common.



The first flexible stainless steel, all-metal ice cube tray was created by Guy L. Tinkham in 1933. The tray bent sideways to remove the ice cubes.

The first rubber ice cube tray was invented by Lloyd Groff Copeman. One day in 1928, while walking through some woods collecting sap for maple syrup, Copeman noticed that slush and ice flaked off his rubber boots rather than adhering to them. Having recalled this incident over lunch with his patent attorney, he conducted experiments using rubber cups. Later, he set about designing and then patenting different types of tray: a metal tray with rubber separators, a metal tray with individual rubber cups, and a tray made completely of rubber.

Ontario Stell Products Co. has plants in Gananoque, Oshawa, Chatham and Milton in Ontario, and subsidiaries in Toronto, Clayton, N.Y. and Lacolle, Quebec. All this started in Gananoque, where the company's ancestors, D. F. Jones & Company and the Gananoque Spring Manufacturing Company, were founded in 1852 and 1860 respectively..

D. F. Jones & Company manufactured shovels; the Gananoque Spring Manufacturing Company made, not surprisingly, springs for horse-drawn vehicles. The two companies' paths met in 1913, and in the years between they had grown and changed. D. F. Jones & Company (1852) changed from private ownership in 1884 and was incorporated as the D. F. Jones Manufacturing Company Ltd. Gananoque Spring Manufacturing Company Ltd. (1860) was incorporated in 1876, and in 1884 amalgamated with Byers Brothers & Co., manufacturers of axles, as Gananoque Spring & Axle Company Ltd. In 1909 this company purchased Dowsley Spring & Axle Ltd. and the Chatham Malleable Range Company, both of Chatham, Ont..

In 1913, when Ontario Steel Products Company, Limited was incorporated under Dominion Charter, it was for the purpose of acquiring the assets, claims, etc., of the Gananoque Spring & Axle Company Ltd. and the D. F. Jones Manufacturing Company Ltd..

In 1919 a factory for the manufacture of automobile springs was built at Oshawa, and began operating in 1920 as Central Spring Company Ltd. Up to 1929, Ontario Steel Products had, therefore, five subsidiary companies: Gananoque Spring & Axle; D. F. Jones Manufacturing; Canadian Malleable Range; Dowsley Spring & Axle and Central Spring. In 1929 all these companies surrendered their charters and the operations of Ontario Steel Products Company, Limited, continued under three divisions, in Gananoque, Oshawa and Chatham..

In 1931 the company sold its shovel division (formerly D. F. Jones Manufacturing Company Ltd.) to the Jones Shovel Company.

A new 85,000-sq. ft. plant was built at Milton, Ont. in 1954 to produce multileaf springs for the automobile and railroad industries, In 1956 the company acquired controlling interest in Tycos Tool and Die Company, Limited, Toronto; in 1958 a subsidiary company was established at Clayton, N.Y., to manufacture specialized plastic products for the construction and electrical industries in the United States. The manufacturing assets of B. J. Coghlin Company Ltd. of Montreal were acquired in 1960, and in 1962, certain manufacturing equipment of HawkerSiddeley Canada Limited, Montreal. These assets were integrated into the company's Oshawa Division.

In October, 1963, 75 per cent of the company's outstanding common shares were acquired by Rockwell-Standard Corporation of Pittsburgh, Ont.

During 1965, a wholly-owned subsidiary, Les Produits d'Acier Lacolle We, was incorporated for the purpose of constructing and operating a new automotive and railway coil spring plant at Lacolle, Quebec.

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