The Fisher Story | 35
Gold-plated 2-inch
Type 657A-3560
with serial number
3,000,000 is
displayed at
Instrument
Type 3560
Society
valve
exhibition.
positioner
Air conditioning added
to the Marshalltown
factory.
Fisher Man theme used
in advertising.
1961 New
manufacturing
licensee plant
opens in
Monterrey, N.L.,
Mexico (Controles Automaticos). Operations move to
Toluca in 1965.
Sales meeting held at
the Tropicana Hotel in
Las Vegas, Nevada.
An eight-foot statue
titled “A Dedication to
the Future” is installed
in the pond at the Fisher Community Center.
First Sales Sez newsletter is distributed to
representatives; it was previously a column in The
Governor newsletter.
Miniature version of
the “A Dedication to
the Future” statue by
sculptor Christian
Petersen
Educational services and sales development
departments are organized in Marshalltown.
more production resources
in the region to keep pace
with sales.
That same year (August
1957), Ken Wolfe and his wife
made a six-week business trip to
Japan and the Far East, arriving
nine hours late besides losing
one full day crossing the
international date line. His
primary objective was to locate
a suitable organization to
manufacture Fisher products in
Japan and to begin the process
of obtaining government
approval.
Ken and his wife sampled raw
fish; drank sake; traveled by
boat, plane, car, and overnight
train; made stops in Japan and
Hong Kong; and covered a total
of 20,000 miles.
“The Orient is completely
different from anything to which
we are accustomed,” he said. “In
Japan, there are 96 million
people living in an area the size
of California.”
Bill Fisher and his wife,
Dorothy, took a winter vacation
to the Middle East in April 1960,
stopping in Lebanon, Syria
and Egypt.
Bill said, “It is amazing to
realize how different the Arab
world is from ours, and at the
same time, how little it has
changed in thousands of years.”
While in Egypt, they toured
the pyramids and rode two
camels named “Whiskey Sour”
and “Canada Dry.”