The Exeter Times-Advocate, 1965-07-22, Page 14Way back at the turn of the century, this was what Dashwood Planing Mills looked like.
Hamilton-Ireland Co. was the second owner of the mill. Two more followed them before
it came into the Klumpp family and took on the name of the village. According to the sign,
they made windows or "sash" back then too.
Company history shows
growth has become habit
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These are used by Dashwood Planing
Mills in the manufacture of prime win-
dows for home construction, office build-
ings, and apartments.
Quality is really economy
What makes a village plan-
ing mill, like Dashwood,
grow so phenomenally? Es-
pecially when other small
town mills are dying.
This is a question even the
people of Dashwood, a police
village of 420, ask. And it's
not an easy question to ans-
wer.
The history of mill work
in Dashwood goes back well
over 100 years and for al-
most all that time there has
been some window manufac-
ture there in some sense of
the word.
It was only in the early
50's that the Planing Mill
work was dropped. And only
in 1960 that the retail lumber
yard that had been made into
the root of the D as hwood
business was suddenly sold.
Now exclusively devoted to
prefabricated window manu-
facture, the company that
bears a small village name
is looking to a cross-country
operation.
Two of the secrets are
quality and experience. Mau-
rice Klumpp learned how to
build better windows from
three sources during the
30's, well before the idea of
prefabrication occurred to
anyone.
He went to Beal technical
school in London for night
courses in this one specialty,
mainly to fill an imminent
gap in the staff lineup of the
planing mill operation.
He learned more from his
predecessor on the job. And
he became closely acquaint-
ed with a window builder in
Detroit, owner of three win-
dow plants in the United
States.
It was from him that Mau-
rice learned a respect for
quality in window workman-
ship and the dream of some-
day specializing in window
manufacture. It took 30 years
for the dream to materialize
fully.
But the Dashwood business
goes back further than this
innovation.
It was started before con-
federation by John Ball. It
passed from hand to hand for
the next 60 years, first to the
partnership of Hamilton and
Ireland, then to Brenner,
Coke and Otterbein. Then
came a man named Hoffman.
After that to George Keller-
mann who ran it until 1928
when it was bought by the late
Thomas Henry Klumpp.
During all those years it
operated mainly to serve the
farmers and townsmen of the
neighboring area. Most of the
older buildings in Dashwood
and the farms of Stephen and
Hay townships began on the
saws of this mill.
Mr. Klumpp knew nothing,
or very little, about the
operation of a planing mill
when he bought it.
He was a thresher with a
collection of seven machines
used during the season on
contract to area farmers.
But that was a seasonal busi-
ness and he was looking for
something for his two sons to
grow into.
There was an abrupt
change with the new owners.
The Klumpps didn't appear
satisfied that servicing local
farms was all the potential
possible. Trucks and trains
were by this time eating into
the exclusiveness of the cap-
tive market of farmers.
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Dashwood has one big
headache that it shares with
any other company selling
quality. It's a headache they
have very little hope of en-
tirely solving.
How do you make that
quality apparent when it
doesn't really show on the
surface? Windows that fit and
windows that don't look pret-
ty much the same in a show-
room when seen from 10feet
away.
The quality of Dashwood
windows is indisputable. And
the Klumpps and Finnens feel
they have an indisputable ar-
gument for the need for qual-
ity in windows.
Says Jim, if you have trou-
ble with the windows once
they are in the house and you
have to replace them, then
you have big expensive trou-
ble.
Heat savings from quality
windows alone, he says, will
pay for the extra cost in three
or four years easily., He
points out that there are still
many inferior products on
the market that are sold on
price alone.
And a window, he says, is
not always just like any other
window.
Dashwood is also doing
something about this appear-
ance business too, coming
out with more exciting new
designs to decorate the out-
side and inside of homes.
ThiS the Dashwood people
hope will help separ at e
theirs from their compet-
Hors' products.
CHANGE
of ADDRESS
Contrary to the adver-
tisement on page 4,
Knowles Lithographing
Co. Limited are now
located at 1027 Clarke
Side Road in London with
the new telephone num-
ber of 455-8290.
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