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MrHockeyCoach

this is my first test page

from here i hope to set up a subpage for sunar file cabs Timeline of Sunar Cffice furniture

1929  Sunshine-Waterloo Company opened in Waterloo Ontario Canada

1930 The company was involved in manufacturing related primarily to farming

1930s The company added the production of baby carriages, bicycles, tricycles and roller skates.

1939 The company's manufacturing converted to war-related production :army trucks, smoke bombs, shells, mines, grenades and gun mounts

1940’s After the war the company concentrated mainly on office products, stoves, shelving and lockers

1955 Massey-Ferguson Industries Limited acquired the Sunshine-Waterloo Company

1956 The Sunshine-Waterloo Company concentrated almost entirely on the manufacture of steel office furniture.

1961 The name was changed to Sunshine Office Equipment Limited

1964 The company added wood office furniture to its product line

1968 Massey-Ferguson purchased Art Woodwork Limited in Montreal. The combined name was changed to Sunar Industries Limited. "Sun" came from the name Sunshine-Waterloo and the "ar" came from Art Woodwork (AKA "Artwood")

1978  Sunar was bought out by the E.F. Hauserman Company,

1982 E.F. Hauserman Company sales were $135.7 million

1983 The company became Sunar-Hauserman Inc.

1987 The U.S. Company struggled financially  ,E.F. Hauserman Company a loss of $7.6 million in

1990 the Canadian operation filed for bankruptcy and was eventually dissolved.

Sunar's main achievement was to build what is arguably the best looking and best built filing cabinet of all time, the Sunar Uniwall. While all other filing cabinets had flat boring shapes that looked like boxes, the Sunar Uniwall had distinctive curved doors that were unique .Adding to the beauty of the Uniwall was the fact the doors had no visible handles, which gave them a very clean streamlined look. The Uniwall drawers used a simple but ingenious cable and pulley system that made the drawers glide smothly and evenly .The frames were built with a heavy duty design and many of these cabinets are still being used today, forty years after their inception.

Despite making a great product that was ahead of its time Sunar closed down, arguably because it was owned by 2 large companies (Massey Fergason & E.F. Hauserman )that both had  fincial problems.

footnotes

Library and archives of canada

wikipatents

Encyclopedia of Cleveland History

wikipedia page Massey Fergason