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Ernest A. Gibbons Company
| Name | Ernest A. Gibbons Company |
| Ortssitz | Jersey City (N.J.) |
| Straße | Hudson Street |
| Art des Unternehmens | Maschinenhandlung |
| Anmerkungen | Lage: Ecke Hudson und Morris Street. Beliefert Mühlenbesitzer, Ingenieure und Maschinenbauer. |
| Quellenangaben | [Jersey City of to-day (1907) 80] |
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| ZEIT | um 1907 |
| THEMA | Beschreibung |
| TEXT | The Ernest a. Gibbons company, universal provider for mill-owners, engineers and machinists and specialists in engineering supplies and mill equipments, has its home at the corner of Hudson and Morris Streets, Jersey City. It deals in everything in the mechanical line for those who want the best, and its specialties are the designing and building of special machines and apparatus, the cutting of pipe to dimensions and making it up with fittings ready for erection or erected if desired, and the sale of high-pressure steam mains, refrigerating plants, pumps and pipe for water supply, air-cooling plants, freight elevators, conveyors for the economical handling of goods in bulk or packages, and coal- and ash-handling machinery. Complete plants are a specialty, in which the company furnishes everything for generating and transmitting power, while split steel pulleys with interchangeable bushings enable them to give customers what they want and when they want it. The Gibbons Company bows to specialization. They
think by day and dream by night of pipes and valves and belts and shafting and wheels and cranks and all that sort
of thing. Naturally they ought to become more alert to the fine points of the business than a man whose main interest in the plant is the product. An architect plans your house. You would plan it your-self, but the job is too much for you. You admit it's a business you don't know all about. It keeps even an architect hustling to keep up with the latest things in building improvements. With all your wisdom in manufacturing your igoods, this company surely can help you with your equipment. Its expert engineering advice is at the service of its patrons, and it makes free translation of engineering problems. The consultation service saves the consumer much money. Confidence is the keystone of business, and the business of tomorrow depends upon the square deal of to-day. More money is wasted in buying the wrong thing at a low price than in buying the right thing at a high price. This company is not tied down to the use of any article because there is more profit in it for them. They are not the lowest priced nor are they the highest. They cannot afford to overcharge any more than they can afford to give goods for nothing. The first step in delivering the goods is to have the goods to deliver. They have the goods and the merit on hand. They deliver in the minimum time and when they promise to, even if they have to stay up all night to do it. They have made a special feature of their telephone department and their patrons will find that they receive the same intelligent service they would were they to call in person. When they call "740 Jersey City" they will find that they have not been received by the office boy, but by one as near the head of the house as possible, and always by one who can give an intelligent answer to their inquiries. If what they want cannot be obtained by the time they need it they will find them a substitute. The purchases of some of the older customers have aggregated tens of thousands of dollars and in some cases hundreds of thousands of dollars, which can only be regarded as an evidence of the uniformly adequate services they have rendered. They make a study of meeting unusual conditions and design machines or apparatus to overcome existing troubles. They confine themselves to high class goods and when it is
a question of price at the expense of quality they lose the order. That they are on the right track is evidenced by the fact that they have more than doubled their business each succeeding year and their customers are the largest and most progressive in their respective lines of business.
It is probable that hardly a day passes without the average man receives a call from some one with a "best yet"
proposition. It may be any one of the thousand and one things in the line of supplies, and he has always had to pay
for the privilege of trying them out. Why not ask their advice and avoid those costly experiments? What may be
the best for one man's use is not necessarily suited to another's requirements. They have been studying this line
for twenty years and can undoubtedly help. The company sometimes has to turn down orders because a customer insists on having something that they know will not work at the high efficiency which they must attain. They cannot afford to have their reputation shattered with a cheap pipe which has been cut down in weight to enable it being sold at a p. ice which some people insist upon having. This applies to a number of articles in the line of supplies which are made only to meet the demand of low price. If they cannot guarantee them, they will not sell them. They suggest profitable improvements, and aim to merit the confidence of the man operating a manufacturing plant. To do this they give him the benefit of their experience. They are prepared to furnish anything that may be needed, and furnish with such goods their advice as to their suitability for the service desired, which they reenforce with their guarantee of satisfaction. As they are not manufacturers they do not have to warp their judgment to meet deficiencies. They sell only the best, without regard to who makes it, and have nothing to offer that is best for evsrything. The man running a manufacturing plant must necessarily spend most of his time in the operating of the plant. It is not reasonable to expect such a man to have time or opportunity to study the details of other market conditions, new
devices, improvements, and under what conditions they are to be adapted. They spend all of their time at this work. Plans and estimates will be furnished for work on old and new plants and their customers will always receive their lowest possible prices whether quotations are made or not. Consider for a moment, and run over in memory the list
of things bought and installed, first in the plant and then on the scrap pile. Let them know the conditions to be met and they will agree to pay for any scrap pile installations which are to be made. They are performing such service for scores of our customers, both large and small, and to their profit and entire satisfaction. The company is not to be confused with hardware houses who call themselves mill supply dealers. They carry hardware to make their line complete. Their business is general engineering and plant equipment. One section of their building is devoted to offices and draughting rooms for the consideration of their engineering projects. They are engineers in the first and last analysis. When San Francisco burned some fellows charged a dollar a loaf for bread, Hot because bread was really worth that, but the people needed it enough to pay that much for it. There are always men who take advantage of someone's confusion to reap a little harvest of their own. A fire or a break-down are bad enough in themselves without being lit upon by vampires at the same time. One of the Gibbons Company's customers recently lost his plant by fire and before the fire was out he phoned them that he wanted them to get him running without delay and would leave the entire matter to their judgment. They have reason to know that he is well pleased. Such confidence as this is the keystone of their business. |
| QUELLE | [Jersey City of to-day (1907) 80] |
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