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                                          Place the Cursor over Small Photos to Change Center Photo Keep Silage Prime regardless of Clime Near Fine Condition brochure published by Unadilla Silo Company, Unadilla, N.Y. No date. Circa 1938. I'm guessing 1938 because one statement in the brochure referred to "more than three decades of silo manufacture". From the below article, the company started in 1906. I added 32 years to 1906 to get to 1938. If it was much more than 32 years, they would have bragged about 35 years making silos or almost four decades... Exterior: Cover is clean, tight. Very minor creasing. Nicely illustrated on front. Interior: Pages are clean. Nostalgic b/w photo illustrations throughout depict farms, silos, equipment. 30 pages. Contents: Vintage sales brochure is a great agricultural collectible, full of sales features and product information.  This brochure contains many photos of area farms that use their silos, many testimonials, and photos and drawings of the details of their silos and their unexcelled Unadilla Door Fastener. Following is an article I found in "The Daily Star" newspaper in Oneonta, NY dated Tuesday, December 17, 2002. The article is written by City Historian Mark Simonson "From unusual silos to laminated products As a kid, what did you do to pass time when you were on a long trip with the family, as you rode in the back seat? I'd count a certain model of car that would pass by or out-of-state license plates. As just an older kid now, I'm still finding things to do as I drive along. Historian-type things, of course! Lately, I've been looking at a certain type of silo architecture that is slowly fading from the landscape around here. As you drive along back roads by farms, you still see a few, although most of the silos are rapidly on the decline. The kind I'm looking at are wooden silos, once made by the Unadilla Silo Co., known today as Unadilla Laminated Products, or Una-Lam. The business was organized in 1906 and incorporated in 1909 by the Van Cott family. The family began a feed and lumber business in 1892, known as J.W. Van Cott & Son. It was John W. Van Cott's son, Frank, who developed the manufacturing of the Unadilla Silo. Soon, Mr. John M. Hopkins became associated with Unadilla Silo, after moving to Unadilla from Vermont in 1910. Hopkins became sales manager of the company and also served as mayor of Unadilla from 1933 to 1953. Frank Van Cott branched out the business with the Central Unadilla Silo Co., with locations in Des Moines, Iowa, and Beaumont, Texas. It didn't turn out to be a successful venture, so Van Cott absorbed the financial losses and closed them up. In our area, business was good at Unadilla Silo, and for a while the company manufactured a competitive line called the Globe Silo. That line of manufacture was later sold to employees who left the company, and the production continued at sites in Sidney and later in Unadilla.For years, the wooden silos were manufactured in Unadilla, but that gradually came to an end as farms closed in the Northeast. The architecture I notice about them are the two unique kinds of wooden roofs they have. One is conical, the other is called gambrel — but both are easily distinguished from a typical silo in our region, which has a dome on top. The company introduced a new line of laminated wood rafters in spring 1958. The additional product line was nearly a natural for Unadilla Silo, as these rafters were used for the structures of barns and sheds. Later, the company provided arches, beams and rafters for schools, auditoriums, churches, warehouses, military installations and stores. The new products became popular enough that the need grew for larger facilities. A site was acquired in March 1962 outside the village of Sidney, seen today along state Route 8. Initially, a 55,000-square-foot manufacturing plant and 14,000-square-foot warehouse were built on the site. The Van Cotts had hoped to expand in Unadilla. The company applied to purchase a piece of village property, but never received an official reply from the Unadilla Village Board. Also, a village referendum held in January 1962 showed village sentiment to be strongly opposed to such a sale of land. Following the referendum, a number of communities in New York and Pennsylvania made relocation offers, as the company employed more than 50 people at the time. But the Sidney site was chosen because of its proximity to the home plant, as well as the homes of the employees. The new products, made in Sidney today, had been a work in progress until initially manufactured in 1957. The company experimented with adhesives and wood products as far back as 1928, led by Frank Van Cott, in cooperation with the Borden Chemical Co. in Bainbridge. The Unadilla plant was eventually abandoned after the Sidney facilities opened, but Una-Lam still has offices at the corner of Clifton and Sperry streets. The company is still owned by the Van Cott family, and its products are a part of buildings around the world." NOTE: I only use photos of the actual item I'm selling (no stock photos)  REFUND POLICY: A REFUND OF YOUR PURCHASE PRICE WILL BE GLADLY GIVEN FOR ANY ITEM WHEN RETURNED IN THE SAME CONDITION AS WHEN SENT. (please look at our rules and privacy policy) |
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