File consists of photographs of Wright Fruit Company, established in April 1927 by chief shareholders, Solomon Wright and Percy Wright. Wright Fruit Company carried on a wholesale and commission business originally from 25 York Street, with other facilities at 77 MacNab Street North and 31 York Street in Hamilton. Facilities included climate-controlled ripening rooms for items such as tomatoes that arrived green and took up to two weeks to ripen enough for sale.
Item is an image of Better Heating Limited, which was located at 132-134 York Street on the north side between Bay Street North and Caroline Street North. The president of the company was George E. Gray and they sold warm air furnaces and stokers, McClary air conditioning systems, dustop filters, oil burners, etc. They also offered sheet metal factory maintenance. They appear in the city directories at this address from 1946 to 1955.
