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36 THE COAL TRADE BULLETIN.
WILL MANUFACTURE FAMOUS MINE FANS IN CANADA
The American Blower Company of Detroit,
Michigan, with a factory also at Troy, New York,
and branch offices throughout the world, have
come to realize the importance of the Dominion
of Canada, as evidenced by the application just
filed for a charter for a company to be known as
the Canadian Sirocco Company, Limited, of Wind­
sor, Ontario. This coinpany has acquired from
the city of Windsor a tract of land, centrally
located, on the Essex Terminal Railway, and will
proceed at once with the erection of a plant which,
when completed, will doubtless be one of the most
complete of its kind on this continent.
A perspective of the proposed buildings is herewith
reproduced. The company is proceeding at
once with the construction of the erecting shop,
50x200 feet, to be of steel and concrete construc­
tion, also the office building. This is about all
CANADIAN SIROCCO COMPANY **
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that it seems possible to complete for occupancy
this winter. In all probability the foundry building
will come next and will be started in the
spring.
This company will hold the exclusive patent
rights for the manufacture in Canada of the famous
"Sirocco" fans and blowers which have revolutionized
the blower business of the world by
their space and power saving features. These
patents are controlled in the United States, the
U. S. possessions, Mexico, Central and South
American and Japan b.v the American Blower
Company and in Europe by Davidson & Com­
pany's Sirocco Engineering Works, Belfast, Ireland,
home of Mr. S. C. Davidson, the inventor.
Sirocco fans are being specified and used more
largely throughout the world than any other for
mechanical draft on boilers, mine ventilation,
heating and ventilating plants, for public build­
ings, school houses, factories and stores, and are
used exclusively in the British Navy.
The Canadian Sirocco Company will also manu-
facture the full line of the American Blower Co.
products, consisting of fans, blowers, heating, ven­
tilating, drying apparatus, steam engines, steam
traps, etc.
The blower business is so interwoven with the
sciences of pneumatics, thermo-dynamies and electricity
that it is essentially an engineering indus­
try, the expert knowledge of how to apply such
special apparatus for producing efficient results
almost predominating the apparatus manufactured
and employed.
It is stated that no company in the world is so
well equipped in this line as the American Blower
Coinpany, and the Canadian Sirocco Company
enters the Dominion of Canada with this most
complete engineering staff at its disposal, estab­
lishing at the outset a unique position.
NAVY ADOPTS VIRGINIA COAL.
For the first time in many years Norfolk, Va.,
is shipping coal to New York. Five naval col­
liers are taking on coal at the Virginian railway
piers, at Sewall's Point, and the Norfolk & West­
ern railway piers, at Lambert's Point. The coal.
it is said, will be used by tbe battleship fleet nongathering
in New York harbor, and it is the first
time that Norfolk ever shipped fuel to the fleet
while mobilizing at another American port.
The Navy Department, it is said, has decided to
use Pocahontas coal almost exclusively on war
ships, finding it superior to other steam coal.
Those loading were the Ajax. at Sewall's Point,
from the Chesapeake & Ohio Coal & Coke Co.; the
Hector, at Sewall's Point, from Castner, Curran &
Bullitt. Inc.; the Lebanon and Vulcan, at Lam­
bert's Point, from the Crozer Pocahontas Coal Co..
and the Mars, at Lambert's Point, from Castner,
Curran & Bullitt, Inc.