b'aluminumindustry,producersandfabricatorssomewhatreluctanttodisclose volumes. The3,500,000figureistheindustry\'s own guess.A similar figure was furnished usin anewsreleasefrom apublic relationsagency.Weaskedforconfirming data, and was referredto a manufacturer, whoreferredustoanassociation,who furnished thename of one of their members who might know, and he didn\'t. This type of run-around is not confined coaluminum.le engendersthesuspicion thatthe industryisnot doing aswellas itspublicityindicates.The movebythe aluminum producerscolimit importation of aluminum is another straw in the wind which added coochers supports the views that aluminum, isexperiencing consumer resistance. Applicator in this illustration following J courseinstallation,appliescorners. ResistancebyFlat Roofers Research Institute and the National Asso Onthatpoint,resistanceiscomingwit~R&:l ciation of Aluminum Distributors.ManHOIST from another quarter, resistance of roofing hargedthattheproposal,ifadopted,Roof_c TheAluminumSidingAssociationcontraccorstotheuseofaluminumfor" ~ JONG_ flashings,gravelscops,roofedgingand would givethegiant aluminum corpora fascia.fueo,et,eot pdtI tions amonopoly,nor only on basic alu AttheMidwestRoofingContractors\' minum bur on the production anddistri Association,themovementof aluminumHOISTSMATERIAL butionof fabricatedaluminumproduces,sheet under the extreme temperature con PULLSITINI which would drive many smallmanufac ditions encountered in the northern states turers our of business.ANDLOWERSIT andCanada,wasdemonstratedvisually M.R.The Big ThreeMi Alumi before200 roofingcontractors and archi Only one man needed.4 tects.Savings in labor q1,1ickly Thetestwasmadetoreinforcethesurpasses cost of Hoist Furman of rheHastingsargumentsofthecontractorsthatwhile num Products Co., Hastings,ch., headedaluminum is a decorative metal, its move 7~~a~lklan Aluminum Siding Association commit ment inresponsetotemperaturechange400 LBS. CAP. teewhichjourneyedtoWashingtonforhasbeenresponsibleforrooffailuresModel TT-400 withI. conferenceswiththeU.S.SenateSmallwhichroofingcontractorshavehadto3 HP Gasoline EngineHOT Business Committee, the Anti-Trust Divi repair at their own expense.STUFF The year1961certainlyhasbeenany 200 LBSCAP. . sion of the Department of Justice and thethingbut a happy year for the aluminumModel TT-200 with Federal TradeCommissiontoprotestac industryandit doesn\'t seemastheyearGasoline or Electric tivitiesof Alcoa, Reynolds and Kaiser and1962 opens that it will be any better.Motor focus attention on theirefforts to capture thealuminumsidingbusinessfromtheFOR THESMALLER JOBS: independent manufacturer.HenotedthatLADDER the"BigThree"produceapproximately 90%of the aluminum in use today.HOISTI InresponseSenatorRussellLongofFRAMEGRAVEL Louisianahasintroducedcwobills,en and withR&~ dorsedby theAluminumSiding Associa POWERGRAVEL companies such as the "Big Three" alumi UNITAsk-tion,designedtomakeitimpossibleforBUCKET. num producerscocompete unfairlywith the small aluminum fabricators. In our Decemberissue we publisheda roofing and siding surv!:y which presented rhe boom or bust volumes of variousmaterials. Much of the statistics was gatheredfor fromGovernmentsourcessuchastheFREE CATALOG, Bureau of Census of the U. S. Departmentcan also be usedPRICES ofCommercecowhich many, but not allon Trolley Trackand nearest manufacturers report.FrameTT-200LOCAL We reportedarisein volumeof alu described aboveDISTRIBUTOR minumsidingfrom100,000squaresin 1940 to 3,500,000 in 1960. Frankly theseAluminum siding can becut with ordinaryREIMANNANDGEORGER,INC. figuresareguesstimatesaswefoundthetools.Heresnips areusedtocutlength.1857 HARLEM ROADBUFFALO 12, NEW YORK JANUARY,196231'