Old Girl old
girl
and the man who bears the name has become a household word is Mr H. W.
Hoover Jr president and chairman of the board of the Hoover Company.
This is his message by a wonderful process of evolution over family as it's
now known
and Clojure around family the story I want to tell us how this pleasant Marjorie
bout. And where we as a company I had it so first let's go back.
Way back to the turn of the century the latest model was moving pictures
as an added attraction the vacuum cleaner was beginning to challenge the broom this
early pedal type use manpower Instead of course power came out eight hundred ninety
three the treble drove a suction fan and a brush roll so
that the dust was swept up sucked up at the same time with much better reducing the
wasteland of inducing the dust
at this time the turn of the century.
My grandfather owned a leather back to the north
and not now the business had been a spamming for nearly a hundred years making
saddles and harnesses but you might call it a cash and carry business.
Some people in those days even call it a growth industry but the automobile was.
Increasingly heard from and it cast a shadow over the salary business.
So my family looked around for another product something for their home.
This was that model the first two were in everything but name
that is in one thousand eight
when the machine came out the firm was called the Electric suction sweeper company.
The smile was plenty heavy. But that shows it had everything in it.
The magic Taishan wasn't invented yet that came later
and really put the company investors our first ad had the modern touch offering a
ten day free trial in the home.
The man behind this idea was a study over senior he was full time salesman
and part time everything else in a one man show he would call a local merchant
and invite him along to see how easy it was to demonstrate the machine to a
housewife in that way he sold a machine and a french fries at the same time.
In one thousand
and eleven less than three years after the company started Windsor Ontario had over
assembly plants
and the following year sales were made to Norway France Russia Belgium Holland
and Scotland his thinking was international from the beginning.
The teams of the century were time of rising incomes age to be over seniors main
thought was to free women from household graduates women had deeper freedoms in
mind like the right to vote.
They wanted their fair share of
that there's a patient outside the home because of newly gained in the home.
Some people said Next thing you know no one to even smoke cigars long.
Live liberation
in one thousand nine hundred three the one million to her was model number five for
one it was the first to assume the shape of the well known who was up today
and about this time. So.
The wonderful light. Connected to get touched.
As sweeps.
That slogan brought Hoover and an eager market had become junction.
Meanwhile other national sales conventions took place every year man made sales
records came to our camp to relax exchange ideas
and develop over spirit
and the program always included a big parade people
have always been rumors most important creative people especially are the lifeblood
of any company. At these can't get togethers.
It was part time play and part time training.
About the one hundred thirty one pair of ailing men was the scene of hectic
construction
this plant has become the center of an export trade to buy.
When the plant came into being in one thousand nine hundred two the remodel of the
day was number seven five zero the first Hoover to introduce headlights.
It brought in a new slogan. It shows you the dirt.
You never knew you had a company Hope light would also reveal
that a picked up the dirt. You never knew you had.
Then suddenly our products changed or what people began to call the duration.
We made how much liners
and Gys was uses lifestyle inflate you
know high over a memorable event was the visit for the duration of eighty five
children from Britain.
These are sons
and daughters of people in rural India after
the war the temple quicker.
A new plan of birth and to build Wales expanded our company
and a washing machine this plant was built in
Australia at Meadowbank in New South Wales to make an assemble washers cleaners
and polish the headquarters
plant in North can resume the manufacture of floor cleaners
and widened its already varied line of appliances
not far from this plant in our cap is the one of Hamilton Ontario manufacturing the
same products as are made in the states us some defense items.
Among the newest additions to our company is our factory
and I found on South Africa. It's began operations in one nine hundred sixty three.
I've had a chance to visit many countries in which we do business.
I'd like to visit. It's always a great experience.
Not long ago I toured our planet Merthyr Tydfil in Wales.
It's hard to believe that fifteen years ago this was wasteland.
There were mountains of slag with the back being us
that murther was mining country past tense few mines were operating
and few people had jobs.
We have bought land across the street for a warehouse that's going to be a spacious
as the plant itself
or are more than three thousand people work here.
They're purchasing power creating a new life for the surrounding community
more than five million washing machines have been built here
and up to supply the whole British market as well as countries overseas
the washing machines tested here are shipped out to five continents.
Murther is the largest manufacturer in the world washing machines for export three
out of every four washing machines exploited from United Kingdom are over made up
murdered to quite a few are shipped to the United States
and other words trade is the lifeblood of the place
when you meet business people in Wales the park in evitable returns to trade as it
did at my meeting with Mrs Williams the mayor of Merthyr Tydfil annoyed by Prime
Minister of State for well it's a Paris.
It's a theme of mine
that if anything will iron out international differences trade Well I feel
that what we need in this world. I'm our ways to bring people together.
Trade is such a way visiting nearby
part of I could sense
that people had acquired no vitality incomes are up employment is up the faces of
the people so what anyone can read from self.
I know what I am I know what I want I can afford what I need.
What is going to come out of the ad. Just when you put in the rules that the sea.
Pan. C.V.T. when
that Was the flower London.
London is the home of the high. I standard of living.
This is where mass consumption on a modern scale started with demands facing goods.
And goods chasing the market.
The Darling the one we have now is years behind the times
and I would like to Hoover.
Besides what had
that chance for my
great and fascinating as London is.
To me it will always be a suburb of her though.
Naturally I think of her video as the first mover plants built overseas.
But if you work here.
The first Super plant overseas is
that North Canton the
Perivale plant supplies vacuum painters to Britain and the whole history
and Hemisphere
out of every ten machines exported from the United Kingdom nine
or Hoovers if any of our competitors are wondering why our products score so
there's a secret ingredient revealed right here quality.
The kind of quality that will pass the stiffest laboratory test.
We also prize the quality of the people people who make a mark
and who are products all over the world.
It may come as a surprise to many of you
but our organization today comprises over twenty five thousand people in more than
a hundred countries of the world.
Chemists playing in Scotland drum major Robert Johnstone of the Hoover pipe band.
And here's the drum major Robert Johnstone at another tempo inside our chemists
Lang plant where tens of thousands of component parts come off the lines each week
more than fourteen hundred people are employed here
and each one of them has been trained as a specialist and his job.
This is how electric timers are put together for the Hoover was
a duty
to most people.
There's nothing colorful about a component except the language they use
when it fails Hoover timers Motors
and other parts can be taken for granted because of the skill put into them at
Cambuslang shipped out here.
Go into the washing machines up north.
These machines
and vacuum cleaners made at Perivale are often for export they go on a base model
and come back and go.
I'm not referring only to what the Board of Trade calls balance of payments
important as it is but to the fact
that every saleable Hoover creates jobs it brings home the bacon as the American
say
this is these are French population of one hundred twelve thousand.
Here is the city. Doing so much so well
that things are jumping where ever you go you hear talk about how much better.
It's going to be in the future than it is now.
It could be warm.
If you listen to the Hill that he did and he states
that I was a dork who said I knew very easy
but the impressive fact is
that people are in a mood now to buy more of the good things such as new cars new
homes
and new electric appliances
and you see in the faces the same signs of wellbeing and prosperity
that you saw in part of an lunch
here in the province that gave its name to Burgundy
and in the city of the young which is also known as the mustard.
Capital of the world.
Hoover has a magnificent new plan our protests a patient here is similar to what
has always been done successfully throughout Hoover's history building our place
among people who are on the middle our march into the future.
Now we move to a country at the edge of the iron curtain over is common knowledge
among the people have been our businesses multiplied several hundred percent since
Hoover famine began operations the bennies people now have more time for leisure
more money for better living as their incomes rise so to their voices making the
demands that produce goods
and keep the prosperity cycle turning several
continents away South America is telling its version of the same story goods are
being poured out and snapped up as a surge of new building.
In the city a new road construction between a city power in Brazil
has grown from less than a million people to nine hundred thirty to over four
million today. Like all of Latin America. Brazil is a landmark contract.
While more people than ever have the wherewithal for leisure millions still search
for a living
but always are chained servants who used to do the household chores are increasingly
taking back the jobs at much higher pay as a result.
Up goes the demand for over appliances and you hear people say things
that are music to our ears. Could you do anything to go in there.
When you can you know that's going to be.
That's bound to be good news for our plant on top washing machines are made by the
way back to keep all the parts used in those washing machines made in Brazil
made in Mexico.
This is an increasingly common lead Hoover product our facility in Mexico City
opened in one nine hundred fifty six produces washing machines
and vacuum plans are afoot to expand
and other appliances in Mexico the barricades of the past are being broken.
This is a land of great expectations tuned to the rising tempo of better living
here in the United States the large home plant in North Canton continues to enlarge
into an ever more responsive manufacturing complex with the capabilities which help
us keep pace with the growth of our business as well as the long range planning
and guidance which the future calls upon the mover organizations with.
In this report. It's been our purpose to give you a profile of your company.
I think we've done that. Help the company never stand still.
I hope we've given you proof that this company has always been on the move
and every move has been a step forward.
Over internationally minded right from a small modest beginning has continually
expanded. We've grown the number of plants and then Amber a product we produce
and the number of our most important product people.
Growth was the objective of the Hoover Company ever since the first electric
section sweeper carried the trade by Hoover.
At every step in the company's history we found
that the future was looking bright so long as the vision of growth has remained
firm. I am proud of the company's. I'm confident and excited about its future.
Thank you for your interest
and your important efforts as a member of the great worldwide Hoover family.