GEORGE WINDELER CO. LTd.

Wooden Tonks, Cooling Towers ond Custom

The George Windeler Co., Ltd. at 22Ol Jerrold Avenue, San Francisco, stands as a modern, efiftcient monument in honor of its founder, George Windeler. The Windeler' Company today, as in years past, operates by the motto, "If ft's Made From Wood We Can Build It"; however, facilities are now mainly geared for the production of rvooden tanks, cooling towers and custom millwork. The extensive area occupied makes it possible to stock and season large quantities of high grade lumber.

The President of the George Windeler Co., Ltd. is now Fred Windeler, son of George Windeler, and President since his father's death in 1941. He had been with his father since 1921 as a partner, and became vice president in 1930 when the firm incorporated. Besides Fred Windeler, who is active in the management of the business, there are:

William S. Heger, Jr., vice president; Art Wall, sales manager; Ed Hoctor, sales engineer; George Johnson, salesman-draftsman, and Walter W. Perkins, covering Southern California sales. With the exception of Walter Perkins, rvho is located at P.O. Box 283, Downey, California, all these men are at Windeler's San Francisco address.

George Windeler, founder of the George Windeler Co., Ltd., was born in Germany in October, 1856; the youngest of nine children. When he was 8 years old his father died, and during the ensuing years (a period during which his older brothers left home) George remained, continuing his schooling and contributing to the family finances by helping neighboring farmers and by herding cows.

One of his older brothers, Peter, had come to San Fran-