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Tips Glass Sales Corporation

Separate sales entity affiliated with the Three Rivers Glass Company during the receivership / pre-Ball-reorganization window. Charles R. Tips is president. Per the only currently-registered period source on this site — 1936-08-07 SA Light “Firm Doubles 1935 Sales” — Tips Glass Sales “sells all glass containers manufactured by the Three Rivers Glass factory”, with 1936 YTD beverage-bottle sales through August 1 more than double the entire 1935 total and higher than any year since 1931.

The 1936-08-07 report dates from the period when Three Rivers Glass had been in receivership for ~4 years (since 1932 — see 1936-12-05 reorganization clipping for the receivership-since-1932 attestation) but before the Dec 1936 Ball reorganization. Tips Glass Sales appears to have been the sales-and-distribution face of the otherwise-receivership-encumbered factory through this transitional window.

Open questions

  • Corporate structure. Was Tips Glass Sales a wholly-owned subsidiary of TRG, an exclusive-dealer entity owned separately by Tips and other principals, or an arm’s-length contractual sales agent? A Texas Secretary of State corporate-filings search for “Tips Glass Sales” 1933–1937 would resolve.
  • Post-1936 fate. Did Tips Glass Sales survive the Dec 1936 Ball reorganization of the factory? Did it continue selling Ball Glass Corporation output? Was it wound up alongside the dissolved Texas TRG in Jan 1937? Undocumented.
  • Other officers / directors. Only Tips’s role (president) is documented in the single available period source.
  • Sales territory. The 1936-08-07 report doesn’t specify; presumably overlapped with the multi-state Gulf-and-Southwest territory of TRG itself.

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