Iron County Record | 1947-06-05 | Page 17 | Commonplace Pump Termed Most Widely Used Machine

Commonplace Pump Termed Most Widely Used Machine PHILADELPHIA. With only 29 per cent of the nation's farms equipped with the most universally used machine in the country the commonplace pump the remaining 71 per cent are rapidly becoming an important market for this mechanism mech-anism which outnumbers the automobile, auto-mobile, telephone and refrigerator combined. Terming the pump the "unsung Cinderella of the machine family," Richard H. DeMott, vice president of SKF Industries, Inc., in an industrial in-dustrial report, said that of the country's coun-try's 5.800,000 farms, only 1,679,000 are equipped with pumps for running run-ning water. He estimated that the national "pump population" now tops 100 million, mil-lion, constituting one of the most important im-portant uses for ball and roller bearings. He compared the pump total with 34,000,000 automobiles, 19.-792.000 19.-792.000 refrigerators and 27,800,000 telephones reported in use at the end of 1940, pointing out that each motor vehicle uses at least one form of pump.