"The Wilkie Products,
Limited. Manufacturers of
automobile piston rings and pins. Also conduct a general machine shop. In the spring of
1923 a body of local business men, consisting of Messrs. L. C.
Gibson, B. W. Wallace, S. J. West, and W. C. Everett,
realizing Simcoe's need for new industries, were successful in lining up a manufacturing
proposition connected with the motor trade industry, and at once started the erection at
Stanley and Head Streets of what is now recognized as one of Simcoe's principal
industries. On Jan. 1st, 1924, the plant was completed and operations commenced. Under the
management of L. A. Wilkie, who with the four above-named gentlemen comprised the board of
directors, the future of the company is very bright."
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