Lynchburg Letter: William Gayner to W. H. Loyd

April 14, 1926

Mr. Gayner gives instructions to sell some of the equipment he left at Lynchburg. He also reflects on the problems at Lynchburg, including what he saw as excessive focus on pleasing Western Electric at the expense of other business. Original was scanned and converted to text by Dennis Bratcher. A scan of the original letter is below; parts of the scan are distorted.

[Gayner Glass Works Letterhead]

[Handwritten]

4-14-26

Mr. W. H. Loyd
Lynchburg Va.

My Dear Mr. Loyd:

Yours of the 10th received. just sell the three (3) jar machines stand[ing] in the sheds by the R.R. track[.]

I am in hopes some one will start the plant. if they would start manufacturing insulators & mason jars the mason molds & parts would come in play.

If we had equiped [sic] & started manufacturing these two lines insulators and fruit jars not giving as much of our attention to the Western Electric, as an object of life and death, it would have come in time, as I know their methods, we have been making their orders

[page 2] for years.

Last year they started to make unreasonable specification. Brother said, all right, but our prices increase 25%[.] They then came back & modified their specification[.]

All the insulators we made for other companies, as you know, made no such [..]net specifications & they dont require them of Hemingray[.]

If we had equiped [sic] for standard Insulator and standard mason fruit jars and started manufacturing these two lines I know we would have been a success.

I would like to have a chance to prove that I am right.

Yours truly

J William Gayner

PS: Brother put me in a job to increase production (He knows my qualifications) the week of March 27th was the largest week on machine made battery jars ever packed by Gayner Glass Wks.