Stencil
Manufacturing ( part 6)
With
increase in stencil sales, there was not enough room in the building
at 2 Ashburton Ave. to finish the stencils. The bottom floor of a
former school building at the corner of Hawthorn and Prospect was
rented and the finishing operations moved there. From there the
stencil finishing was moved into the 12,000 sq. ft. building we had
erected on the Ashburton lot. In June 1961, this operation was moved
to a building on Saw Mill River Road. After we erected a building on
Alexander Street diagonally across from 2 Ashburton, the stencil
finishing operations were moved there. At the height of the stencil
duplicating usage, we had four coating machine, which coated double
width rolls of tissue 24 hours a day for five days. These rolls were
put on racks and transported to the finishing area where they were
sheeted or split and rewound.