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SASH. DOORS. FRAMES. TRIM. FINISH

Quint Street ond Evqns Avenue, Scrn Fronclsco 24, Califi.

ATwofer 2-2277 - 2-22T9

New Service to Gut Operoting Costs

A new,service, designed to reduce the costs of electricity and gas purchases made by large and small businesses, is being offered by American Utility Cost Consultants, 15 Park Row-, Ne-r,rr York. N.Y. Fach month their clients forward their paid utility invoices to the AUCC office. Once received, trained per- sonnel record and_ check each bill for accuracy of calculations and proper application of rate schedule. This iheck starts with the meter readings and is carried through the intricate rate structure to the final total. Thereafter, the records at each location are analyzed to determine whether or not changes to optional, available rate schedules would prove more economical. Further investigations are made into the possible applications of beneficial riders, rules, regulations and clauses that are a part of these rates. These analyses can also detect increased charges that result from defective metering devices.

American Utility Cost Consultants issue reports to each of their clients advising them of their findings. Where overcharges are found or reductions are available, AUCC guides their clients to the corrections and rate changes that subsequently reduce tlreir costs.

There are no advance fees or flat monthly or yearly charges. There is no charge for this service unless AUCC reduces costs. When costs are reduced, the fee is a percentage of the monthly amounts saved. AUCC's participation in these savings is limited to a specified period, after which their clients save the full amount of the reductions put into effect. For each operation where AUCC's recommendations create savings, they submit monthly statements depicting the actual monthly charges, and a deailed breakdown, based on the same month's use of utility services, of the costs that would have been incurred were it not for their cost-reducing recommendations.

AUCC does not suggest curtailment of utility services or chalges in operations as means of reducing costs. They merely advise as to the most efficient purchases of the prevailing usages. Details of this service are available from American I]t!!!ty Cost Consultants in their booklet entitled Cutting Utility Costs.

Poller-Hcndling Bookler Reody

Can you identify all the popular styles of pallets ? Do you know the labor saving advantages of unit load handling? Are. you familiar- with the use of air rights and the spaie saving benefits of narrow aisles in your warehouse?

All these questions and many more are answered in a new 2-\page handbook, "Pallet Fiandling in Narrow Aisles." Write to The Raymond Corporation-, 76-L7O Madison St., Greene, N. Y., and ask for your free copy.

Teco Booklet Confqins Design

And Use Dqtq for Trip-l-Gri

tor Trip-L-grips

anch.ors in a new booklet iust issued by the manfuacturer, Timber Engineering Company, Washington, D. C. "16 Use and Design Data for Trip-L-Grip Framing Anchors," the new eightpage booklet, shows all pertinent data to plan and use Trip-LGrips for a variety of secondary connections with 2" or larger lumber. The booklet contains information for specification writing, tables of recommended safe working values and maximum joist spa.ns, and applications for efficient joining of 2 x 4 to 2 x 12 inch members in wood construction. Sixteen popular applications for Trip-L-Grips are illustrated. Also shown are more recent new uses for anchors in framing 2.4.1 plywood floor system, concrete form panels, solid blocking to plate and gable overhang.

The new booklet also contains a listing of distributors stocking Trip-L-Grips throughout the country.

Roberson to Heod lowell Office

Bill Roberson has been named to head sales for the newlv established Lowell Corp., 3450 Geary Blvd., San Francisco, wholesalers of soft and hardwood plywoods, sliding and folding door units, mouldings, veneers and allied building materials. Roberson, who since February 1958 has been assistant to the manager of Hardwoods, Inc., Seattle, has had considerable experience in the Northern California area from his days as a representative of Benj. Levinson & Co., and more recently with Durable Plywood Sales Co. of Menlo Park.