A Million And A Quarter Eubank lroning Boards

L. H. Eubank, senior member of L. H.'Eubank & Son, Inglewood, California, states with becoming pride that there are norv in use throughout the United States more than a million and a quarter Eubank ironing boards. This in eleven years time, and starting with a very small production and limited circulation. Today these Eubank boards are being nationally distributed by the Harbor Plywood Corporation, so the number of the boards in use will naturally grow much faster than ever before, due to a combination of this splendid national distributor and increased procluction facilities of the Inglewood plant

The growth of the Eubank business in'Inglewood during the last few years has been nothing short of phenomenal. They started eleven years ago tvith a very small plant making ironing boards and medicine cabinets in very smali quantities. Today that end of the business has grown to great size, and yet is no more than half the total business of the company. In the board and cabinet department there is now an assembly line that turns out 400 ironing boards daily, in addition to a greatly enlarged production of cabinets. This department has grorvn steadily from the very beginning. Mr. Eubank, the elder, is a mechanical genius, and today the many marvelous pieces of machinery that make these boards and cabinets are all speciallv designed and built for the purpose by that gentleman himself. They are marvels of ingenuity, and can be found in no other manufacturing establishment.

New equipment has arrived in the last month and is now being installed by means of which they rvill be able to make built-up ironing boards from solid lumber, and the buyers will henceforth be able to make their choice between the solid boards and the plywood board. ).

There is no shortage of high grade Pine lumber at"the Eubank plant. Sufficient qdality Shbp lumber is available at all times in sufficient supply to keep the plant operating at full speed.

One of the big and important departments of the Eubank plant at Inglewood is the Pine finish and moulding plant, housed in a large new building just behind the board and cabinet building, and as big as the other. Here are in operation two rip saws, a heavy resaw, two stickers, and a planer capable of dressing two sides at the same time of boards thirty inches in width. There are also cut-off saws and other small equipment in this big brick building. Ilere they make finish and mouldings from Ponderosa and Sugar Pine, their moulding production being about twcr big carloads a week.

They get much of the lumber, for this moulding and finish plant from their own sawmill in the Northern part of California, which ships them an average of 10,000 feet of quality lumber daily. To back up this mill they recently purchased a pix acre tract of land adjoining their manufacturing plant, and here the lumber is stacked when it arrives from the mill. A lift truck and a straddle truck handle all the lumber to and from this yard, the lumber being all stacked and handled in packages.

The newest addition to the Eubank Inglewood plant has just been completed in the shape of a big reinforced brick warehouse. This new building has a truss supported roof with 20 foot clearance Tor straddle and lift trucks, and is 776 feet long and 52 f.eet wide. It is a most modern building, scientifically lighted throughout. Ifere they arg storing their finished products that await shipment.

L. H. Eubank & Son is owned and operated by the elder Eubank, and his son George Eubank. The younger man is now in full charge of operations, while his father looks after production, and the operation of the various departments. The Inglewood plant is something to be prottd of.

From Normen Cords

"May I extend my most sincere congratulations to you, Bill Black, and Eddie Martin. THE CALIFORNIA LUMBER MERCHANT occupies an important position in the annals of the California lumber industry, and your editorials, news items, and features certainly'hit the spot'with everyone that I know. Here's best wishes for another 25 years of success." Normen Cords, San Francisco.