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Effective April l, Vanport's new offices were established at 1819 Bayshore Highway, Burlingame, California. In addition to Vanguard and Tom Schram, the firm recently announced the association of Walter Grenn in its overall operations.

Monthly lumber Fncls

Through the first three months of 1963, orders at Douglas fir region sawmills were 83 million feet behind the same period last year, and shipments were off 71 million feet, according to the West Coast Lumbermen's Association.

Much of this loss in orders, reports G. C. Edgett, executive vice president of WCLA, is in water shipments to the east coast, where the Canadians have taken 77r/z percent of the business this year in the first two months alone.

The weekly average of West Coast lumber production in March was 166,270,000 b.f. or I04.5/o of the 1958-62 average. Orders averaged 150,947,000 b.f.; shipments 159,776,000 b.f.; weekly averages for February were production 161,010,000 b.f., IOI.2% of the 1958-62 average; orders 155,128,000 b.f.; shipments 143.374.000 b.f.

Three months of the 1963 cumulative production 1,999,553,000 b.f.; three months of 1962, 1,986,453,000 b.f.; three months of 1961, 1,901,956,000 b.f.

NEW DORSEY GIANI I.BEAM PTATFORM

The high-tensile steel main frame of the new Giant l-Beam Series of Dorsey Trailers is fabricated by automatic welding machines. The frame is 20lz inches deep and the five-inch-wide top and bottom flanges are of varying thicknesses, depending on trailer capacity. Spacing of web stiffeners, floor sills and pipe braces also varies on models within the series, to provide the necessary strength while keeping weight at a minimum.'Floor sills are 6 inch Jr. l-Beams and are welded through the main frame in contour-punched holes. Capacity of the standard version is 44,000 pounds, while the heavy-duty and West Coast models are rated at 55,0fi) pounds. Maufactured by Dorsey Trailers, Inc., Elba, Alabama.