Oakland Tribune from Oakland, California • Page 13

OAKLAND TRIBUNE, SUNDAY. AUGUST 13, 1933 SPECIAL PAGE FOR GEORGE A. KREPLIN COMPANY AUTOMOTIVE SUPPLY HOUSE CARRIES HUGE STOCKS TP II 1 I'll i ii i ii mi NEW FIRM IN OLD LP CATID JBMSisaa 1 ft Part Man Buys Loral -Loal 1 1 11 Ui ilgEk ft Store of Stride Or-1 ftp TT I 15. TF lU i ItoWi "Years ago. when I first went to work for the Waterhouse peoplfc, I met a young fellow that had goh to work for the firm about sis months before I did." sttes Frank Cochrane, sales manager for G6rg A.

Kreplin Co. and uprn tier p-J 1 I -1 4 ft I 1 August 1 the name ot George Crmpany was placed ibovli that of Waterhouse-Lester Scovett at 2060 Broadway. This sig- i "In 1922 Herman Pflug was graduated from the San Franciseo itort and sent to the Eastbay as a salts-man for the San ranciseo In 1927. when a store was opened 1b Oakland, he was brought inside to wait on the trade. "In 1928 I was placed in charge ii the Oakland store and I certainly needed an assistant to take a lot the detail off my shoulders.

60 Pflug was made assistant manager of the Oakland store. "In 1931 we persuaded the powers ff WH EL II UF1 5 nified tale of the Oakland branch theWa r-house com-p a to George Krenlin. LMMMnaas sl xir ft; lin needs no to the auto-motive trade of the a 3 t-bav, nr of the United States for that matter. that be that we should do our own purchasing for the. Oakland stbre, and there were a lot of articles that we needed that the San Francisco store did not stock, and they hid a lot of merchandise that we didn't want and couldn't use in this terri tory.

In addition to his other duties, Pflug took over the Buties of purchasing agent and he has been doin that job ever since. "Now that George Kreplin has taken charge of this store we Wvfc I a trained purchasing agent riady to act. Kreplin has told him to ktep 1 right on with his position an8 Pflug ha6 smiled and said. 'Yts, "To my way of thinking," 6n At thfr left is a view of the exterior of the store occupied by George A. Kreplin Company, successors to Waterhouse, Lester, Srovillr Company.

1 he store is located on Broadway in the heart of automobile row. At the left is the interior showing the front counter vhere customers are waited on by an expert crew. The storage bins are shown al (he right. Here slocks are kept complete at all times so that there aie no delays in filling orders. I he Kreplin ompany sperialires in automotive and carriers' supplies.

I hey are not a branch concern and the policies of the company are dictated from the Oakland headquarters of the company. The firm is operating under "NRA regulations and has added an employee to lake care of the increasing business. In addition to the counter service the firm has a crew of outside salesmen who are calling on trade daily. Deliveries are made with motorcycles and trucks from the rear of the building, on a separate street so that there is no interference traffic. He started fi I first KREMLIN'.

BACKED BY TRADE. tinued Cochrane, same Hf- When George Kreplin announced i man Pflug has one of the moat firm Subscribes To NRA Rules When President itoosevelt broadcast his anpeal for every industry, and everv employer of labor, to sign to the radio appeal of the President of the United States and immediate- ly phoned Kreplin. Authority wa immediately given and Cochrane hid the wire on the way almost before the echoes of the appeal had that he was starting in business pleasing dispositions I can think 6f. for himself he was flooded with of Nothing seems to get htm mad. Hk COMPLETE SHOP.

In the basement of the building at S060 Broadway Is to be found a complete machine shop for automotive repairs. Brake lining mn-chines. lathes, cylinder boring machines, connecting rod, align 4.s and a host of other labor saving Ooites are Ihre demonstration worn fers from manufacturers to order abvayS wears a smil. nd if ahr- five trade. Now we carry heavy hardware, farrier supplies, automotive parts, to say nothing of our stock of garage and super-service station equipment.

"The same policies that have been my standard for years are going to be continued in our new venture and we know that the people, especially the automotive people, are going to find us a good firm with which to do business." what he wanted on their usual bill-1 one in the organization gets hWS ing No credit statements were of something he can't handle hh for and no salesmen solicited naturally turns to Pflug to hlp him the business. out and Pflug smiles and helps." employee added to the roll since the first of the month. "This business of starting in for myself is not quite the same as it was back in stated Kreplin "At that time I started from scratch with no customers and no reputation. During my time in this business it has grown and expanded until the average person would be surprised to find the many and varied items that we are carrying in stock at the present time. "In 1920 about all we carried was replacement parts for the automo- hi? blahket pledge, the idea took the died away.

country by storm. To prove that the new firm means One of the first firms to send in what it says the proof is that one telegram pledging their support 10 new employee was added to the the idea was the firm of George payroll the first week the new firm A. Kreplin Co. The wire was on 1 was in existence. According eo Its way within an hour after the I George Kreplin, new faces will oe broadcast.

Frank Cochrane listened added as business warrants 1 ail) fi AW 0 au'orrictive parts replacement store In Sn Francisco in December. 1920. In January, 1921. he opened his Oakland store at Twenty-fourth arid Webster streets. Thtse stores Were, the first of the Triangle Parts Stores that eventually were established in the larger centers of Northern California.

In 1928 the triangle Parts Stores were consolidated with th Water-house-Lester, Scovel which had just previously amalgamated with Weinstock, Nichols Co. and the Scovel Iron Store. In the consolidation Kreplin became president and general manager of the new firm. All during Kreplin's activities in the automotive replacement parts business he has ben well and favorably known. At one time he nerved as director of National Standard Parts Association and has just resigned as president of the Pacific Automotive Parts Association of San Francisco.

When the trade firrt heard of Kreplin's purchase of the Water-fious firm he was immediately flooded with telegrams and letters frcm all parts of the United States w'irhmg him success in his new un-fle-taklng. Such spontaneous response to the first news slvs just how well this man is though! of in trad circles. Kreplin slates that there is going to be no change in the personnel the Oakland store and that the same employees are going to continue in their respective positions. In fact, there has been one new AUTOMOTIVE PRODUCTS "are preferred by majority of car mariufacturtrs!" AVBESTOS Prod- nets have served the LIVE LONGER, DO THE FINEST WORK INT SHORTER TIME, INCREASE VOLUME, LOWER COSTS -EARN MORE PROFITABLE MONEY FOR YOUR SHOP. Pacific Metal Bearing Co.

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