New Sales ldeas

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New Literature

FLOOR MAINTENANCE SYS?EM AVAILABLE TO RENTAL OUTLETS

gr:am are free window streamers, advertising mat service, and "flyers" for jobber mailing to dealers.

ature section incorporated in the front of the display. Ample storage space is concealed beneath thc literature section. Attractive lighting is built into the unit and the log-end trade mark on top is self-lit to provide a focal lroint for floor traffic.

Use of the unit as a planning cerrter has been made possible by installation of a pull-out dran'ing board in front which will allow the salesman and the prospective customer to work out plans with the samples and literature right at hancl.

Interested dealers should contact their local G-P representative for additional inf ormation and details regarding purchase.

A neu' pocket-size catalog on tr'{ilcor sheet n-retal products, only 4l"x1l" in size, 64-pages, can be slipped into a pocket and carried about for convenient reference. Contents include complete product data and helpful installation information on: Milcor roof drainage products, Milcor building specialties, Milcor ventilators, Milcor sheets and roofing, Milcor heating and airconditioning products, Milcor ciean-out doors and access doors, \,filcor masonry building prodrrcts, Milcor stove pipe and accessolies, Milcor pick-up carts and Milcor rural mail boxes. Furnished free of charge. Address your request for "Catalog Number 300-a" to Inland Steel Products Compa.ny, Advertising Division, P.O. Box 393, Milwaukee 1, Wisconsin.

"Scotch - Brite" brand floor maintenance pads for scrubbing and polishing are now available to rental stores, paint stores, hardware and lumber outlets for use with rental floor polishing machines, announces Minne sota Mining and Manufacturing Co., St. Paul. Use of the pads-sold to the customer when the machine is rentecl-eliminates the neecl for a brush inventory, or for cleaning dirty brushes after their return. Scrubbing and polishing pads will be available in three sizes: 12 pads (either type) carry a suggested resale price of $1.33; 13" pads, $1.53; and 14" pads, $1.72. The pads return a 33Vo profit to the dealer, in addition to the machine rental fee and the sale of related items (waxes, cleaners, etc.), Free to dealers for customer hand-out is a profusely illustratecl folder which gives stepby-step instructions for using "Scotch-Brite" pads on resilient tile and linoleum, as well as wood floors. Also included in the pro-

The scrubbing pad is designed without danger of scratching or gouging. The polishing pad is designed to keep floors bright between scrubbings. Since the pads cannot rust, there is no danger of discoloring light-colored floors. Both pads are used with the "3M" brand driving pad, r,,r'hich is a one-time dealer purchase that becomes a permanent part of the machine.

The 3M company pointed out that the flexible scrubbing and polishing pads are designed for use with the driving pad, which has molded ru,bber "fingers" that provide active support. The driving pad assures that the scrubbing or polishing pad will stay under the machine where it belongs, and there is no danger tcr the floor as there is when makeshift devices are used for driving.

Further information about the rental program is availabte from l.rardware and paint distributors nationally, or from the 3M Company, Dept. F9-203, 900 Bush Avenue, St. Paul 6, Minn.

Pacific Cement and Aggregates, Inc, announces a new addition to its line of sacked, readyto-use productsMix-Kwik black top Asphalt.

Mix-Kwik black top Asphalt, in three easy steps, solves the problem of easy repairs to asphalt pavements around the home. This ready-to-use patching material does not require special tool. heating or mixing. First, the do-it-yourself handyman merely brushes clean with a whisk-broom the spot or crack to be mended. Next, he spreads Mix-Kwik black top asphalt right from the bag and levels it with a shovel or rake. Then, he simply tamps the asphalt into place by rolling his car wheel over the spot several times.

Mix-Kwik Asphalt is designed for filling ruts, de,pressions, pot- holes and wide cracks. Another intended use is for building up driveways to ease abrupt street angles.

Areas repaired with Mix-Kwik black top Asphalt may be used at once and will continue to gain in firmness under traffic control and conditions. An added feature is that the unused portion of the product may be stored for future use by simply folding over the open end of the bag to keep air from the contents.

Mix-Kwik Asphalt comes in 75-pound bags which contain enough material to cover six square feet to a depth of one inch.

Further inforrnation about Mix-Kwik black top Asphalt may be obtained by writing Pacific Cement and Aggregates, Inc., 400 Alabama Street, San Francisco, California.