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Show Firms Prosper Via U. S.-Canada Pact, Auto Safety Drive The treaty with Canada on inutual trade in automotive components and the automotive automo-tive safety drive are proving a bonanza for some American Ameri-can suppliers. "Those who were quick to see the -opportunity the treaty afforded for joint ventures ven-tures with Canadians have enlarged their sales and improved im-proved their earnings substantially sub-stantially on both sides of the border," says Harry Hirsch, President of C. M. Hall Lamp Co, established in 1909. In a joint venture with a Canadian company, Hall Lamp last July opened up a modern die casting and auto-' auto-' matic plating plant in Ontario, On-tario, making lamp housings, mirrors and other small components. The venture, already profitable prof-itable after less than 6 months, is adding substantially substan-tially to Hall's earnings, reports re-ports Hirsch. He anticipates substantial 1967 sales increase in-crease as a result of the Canadian Ca-nadian venture and the current cur-rent drive for automotive safety equipment. Supplying Chrysler, Ford, American Motors, International Interna-tional Harvester, pioneering Hall Lamp has successfully promoted such safety features fea-tures as the remote controlled con-trolled rearview mirror, which will be standard equipment on many 1967 cars. In this, as in other safety products, says Hirsch, "we are in the vanguard". |