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Home My WebLink AboutThe Huron Expositor, 1956-07-27, Page 12OR, SEAJ:ORTH, ON J4., 4Insi 2.., 1050 Electrical Work in the new GENERAL COACH BUILDING was installed and necessary excavating carried out by FRANK KLING Plumbing . - Heating Electrical Work - Sheet Metal Work Excavating Phone 19 Seaforth Mobilehomes Pro'ii• (The opportunities that exist in out Northern Ontario, at Air Force • r ' the operation of a mobilehome park and dealership are described Canadian icallMobile Home.in a ) issue of One of the most interesting suc- cess stories in mobilehome living has been written by Ted and Mrs. Cordts, of Ted's Trailer Sales, It. R. 1, North Bay, Ont., one of the most charming couples in our in- dustry. ' This time two years ago, the Cordts arrived in Canada from Europe looking for a business in which to invest a few thousand dollars and a few years before retirement. Ted was undecided about where he would live or what be would do. He favored South- ern Ontario, and considered farm equipment, a car agency and a service station. When an dppor- tunity to represent General Coach in North Bay came to him, he left for the Northern Ontario city the next day. Within a year Cordts was one of the leading dealers in the Gen- eral Coach organization. ,He has since started a mobilehome park and has room to expand his pro- erty into a 300 -space operation. In the photo scrapbook in the Cordts' mobilehome.. in North Bay, you will find pictures covering 16 years of camping and trailer liv- ing in Europe. Among their fav- ourites, are pictures of their first folding -type travel trailer. It is nothing but a wooden box with a folding canvas roof, mounted on wheels. "It doesn't look like much," says Mrs. Cordts, "but we had years of fun with it travelling thousands of mile§ through Europe. We visited several times almost every Euro- pean country, including Sweden, Denmark, Germany, Holland, Bel- gium, France, Spain, Switzerland, Italy and Austria." Page after page, the Cordts' scrapbook is filled with pictures of their travelling trailer in Ven- ice ---with memories of gondola trips through the famous canals; at Biarritz—"finest beach on the Atlantic coast"; Hamburg—"where Ted remembers the chorus girls at St. Pauli"; Vienna—beautiful day trips into the Alps; French Riviera—swimming and sunning and swimming again. "Yes, that little trailer was so near and dear to the Cordts that they brought it with them all the way from Sweden to Canada. "It's still on duty," Ted says. "A North Bay Air Force family enjoyed a vacation in it last sum- mer. It still has many years life in it." Ted Cordts decided on a mesile- home business after talking with officials of the Canadian Mobile Home Association and making his own investigations. He chose North Bay as a location, partly for the climate, which is similar to the climate he was used to in Swe- den, and partly because of the de- mand for mobilehomes through - stations and in the mining com- munities. One of the first things Cordts did after setting up his dealership on the outskirts of North Bay- was to establish a mobilehome park. Johnny Cordts deserves most of the credit for getting the park built, according to Mrs. Cordts. "Johnny did the digging for the well and the septic tanks and the underground water pipes,"-- she says. "Ted did most of the talk- ing. As a result, Johnny got cal- louses on his hands, and Ted got blisters on his tongue." The first family to move in was Johnny with his wife. In a few days five other families moved in. The. park has grown steadily_. siX or seven spaces at a time, until to- day there are 33 spaces occupied. The local hydro commission, af- ter some discussion, agreed to in- stall one meter for each home. This has proven to be very satis- factory, since each family can now use as much hydro as it wishes and pay its own bill. Roads in the park are 33 feet wide and are gravelled. Everyone has a parking space on his own lot for the Car. This spring, Ted and the tenants will spend more time on landscap- ing.„ By the summer we should have one of the finest parks in Northern Ontario,” he says. The guests at the park include Air Force families, railroadmen, bricklayers, service station opera- tors, construction men, miners and retired people. "This park is the goal we have been looking towards for many years," Cordts says. "For more than 50 years we have lived in a dozen apartments and several houses, but we will never go back. We are in love with our mobile - home now. It has all the conven- iences that a house should have. In the coldest days of winter i!- is comfortable and warm." CONGRATULATIONS To Bill Smith and his able staff on making General Coach of Canada a quality leader in the Industry. FROM A FRIEND r Mount Robson, in British Colum- bia, is Canada's best known moun- tain, but Mount Logan, in the Yu- kon, is nearly a mile and a half higher. GENERAL COACH WORKS OF CANADA LIMITED, held open house at Hensall recently, when the community was invited to tour enlarged production . facilities and to see General Mobile Homes in process of manufacture. Interested citizens examined every corner of the 110 by 235 -foot plant and saw various styles of mobile homes under construction. Shown here s are four Seaforth residents interested in the appointments of a General Mobile Ho e. They are: (left) Mrs. A. Campbell, Miss Ina Gray, Miss Marion Gray, and (standing) Miss Belle Campbell. (Photo by Phillips) 1 "Lei The Buyer Remember" ouen into the mysteries of ' rchaic civilizations are romantic stories of artisa 'P'f the ancient world. sV�l One such story concerns Neikais, of Sidon in Syria, where, it is said, the method of forming glass by blowpipe originated. Neikais was not only a master craftsman in the art of glass blowing, but a workman of great integrity as well. The objects which came from his blowpipe must be of the finest quality before they were ready to be sold in the marketplace, or transported to other lands to grace the tables of kings. Neikais was also a wise and practical man. He knew that even with its infinite beauty, the work of his hands did not reveal all of its hidden quality. And so, molded into each object which he made were the words "NEIKAIC EIlOHCEN" "MNHCOH OACOPACAC", Neikais Made This ... Let the Buyer Remember, and merchants knew they were handling more than beauty when they bought or sold a piece of Neikais' glass. e..moss•.ee• In 1931 when we started to manufacture equipment for the mobile home industry we followed the example set by Neikais two thousand years ago. Today products bearing the name "Theodore Bargman" are standard equipment on practically every mobile home built be- cause buyers appreciate and, remember the hidden as well as the apparent qualities of all Bargman products: THEODORE BARGMAtf 16425 HAMILTON AVENUE • DETROIT 3, MICHIGAN 'Syrian gist cup owned by The Toledo Muwum of Art, used will, their permission. Copyright 1955 --Theodore Bargman Co. MNHCOH onroPACAc "let the Buyer Remember' STOP • TAII - DIRECTIONAL SIONALI MINK WMT 54 441ov 8 57 7•weg NA 701 b 702 Gler.eol.d Mw 46.0 CNeww IUP f1.M-LII. U.*tlti.I Csemed.t TrelblIt.N..114f S-11 442 !!.k Assembly Sink Assembly d0•0-3 WM.etet Ttall•lltLNg.R_atit - No.'400 Porch Light L461 N.M-L-L.ek Amid 1.t Congratulations on your expansion . . and continued success in your new plant GENERAL COACH WORKS OF CANADA ! We are proud to have played a part in your outstanding progri3 ducts as standard_ equipment on all Geier by furnishing Bargman pro- dbile Homes. A