R. H. D., lnc. Buys Ready Hung Corp.

Mr. Homer O. Warde, president, R. H. D. Inc., has announced that his company has purchased the total assets of the Ready Hung Door Corporation of Fort Worth, Texas, including its trade marks, patents, machinery designs, and licensing rights to include existing franchises throughout the United States and Canada.

At the present time, there are twentythree licensed manufacturers of patented Ready Hung Doors between Los Angeles and Bufialo, New York, and between Toronto, Canada, and Birmingham, Alabama, the southernmost mill.

They include such outstanding manufacturers and jobbers as the Ready Hung Door Manufacturing Companies of Burbank and Hayward, California. In Toronto, Canada, IJoyd-Truax Limited is the licensed manufacturer, Most of these companies supply wholesale jobbers and retail lumber yards with prefabricated door units manufactured under numerous patents.

The principals of R.H.D. Inc. are men widelyexperienced in the millworkindustry and well known for their contribution to the development of component construction. The officers of the company are Homer O. Warde, president; C. B. Ramsey, vicepresident; and Alfred Liggins, secretarytreasurer.

Mr. Warde was one of the organizers of the Southern California Association of Cabinet Manufacturers and served four years as its first president. This organization, having grown in stature, is still operating and has approximately 150 members. His other activities have spanned a period of 43 years since the fall of 1920, when his lack of desire to return to school and overwhelming desire to see what was going on in the world brought him to the west coast. After a short fling with Western Union and the Union Trust and Savings Bank, Mr. W'arde began what was to be a long career in tfre woodworking industry when he was employed by the old Southern California Hardwood Manufacturing Company in downtown Los Angeles.

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Paint-Lumber Research Effort Will Continue in 1964

Representatives of the paint and lumber industries, meeting in Las Vegas, have voted to continue in 1964 a $50,000 joint research project designed to improve the performance of painted wood.

The action was taken by members of a Joint Paint-Lumber Industry Steering Committee. Financing is by equal contributions from the National Lumber Manufacturers fusociation and the National Paint, Varnish and Lacquer Association.

The cooperative research effort, pointed toward increasing the life of-and the demand for-products of the paint and lumber industries, is being carried out at the U.S. Forest Products Laboratory and the Armour Research Foundation.

The joint activity was conceived by the trade associations representing paint and lumber manufacturers as a means of improving communications between the two industries and more clearly defining research areas of mutual benefit.

Stretching the longevity of exterior wood finishes promises important benefits to builders, contractors, home handymen and others in the construction field-as well as to lumbermen and paint makers themselves.