 It also expanded into supplying oil field pipe and pipe for service stations, eventually becoming "Smith Fiberglass Products" in 1986.In the early 1960s, the company opened a commercial water heater and boiler plant in Stratford, Ontario, Canada.In 1965, the Motor division invented the enclosed canopy, two-compartment motor, a design that improved the reliability in pool pump motors by separating the switching components from the motor windings.