A Bumper crop in Oshawa. Glittering in the bright winter sunlight, hundreds of automobile bumpers are stockpiled in the yard of Houdaille Oshawa Ltd. (...)

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A Bumper crop in Oshawa. Glittering in the bright winter sunlight, hundreds of automobile bumpers are stockpiled in the yard of Houdaille Oshawa Ltd. (...)

Date11/26/1974

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Beaty, Keith (photographer)

Toronto Star (Firm) (publisher)

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Original Toronto Star caption: A Bumper crop in Oshawa. Glittering in the bright winter sunlight; hundreds of automobile bumpers are stockpiled in the yard of Houdaille Oshawa Ltd. on Simcone St. in Oshawa; watched over by guard Bert Stinson; who directs traffic through the yard. The company stamps and plates bumpers for the big automobile manufacturers and this is a supply of them awaiting shipment; most of them to the U.S.

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