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March, 1925 Forging Stamping - Heat Treating 109
The Mercury Body Corporation, Louisville, Ky.,
whose principal output during the past three years
has been all-steel bodies for Chevrolet, Ford and Star
chasses, plans to devote more capacity to specially designed
passenger and commercial bodies for all makes
of cars, trucks and tractors. D. C. Harris, previously
treasurer of the Mengel Body Company, Louisville,
has assumed active management, having been elected
president and member of the board of directors. At
the annual meeting D. C. Harris was elected president,
W. R- Tischendorf, vice president, and Donald Mc­
Donald, secretary and treasurer.
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The Igo Manufacturing Company, Kenosha, Wis.,
with $150,000 capital stock, has been organized in
Wisconsin by the owners of the Igo Manufacturing
Company of Chicago, manufacturers of automobile
bumpers and other automobile accessories and equipment,
which is abandoning its plant at Chicago
Heights and transferring the operation to Kenosha.
A long-term lease has been taken on two buildings of
the Bain Wagon Company works in Kenosha, with
an option of 100 per cent additional floor space as
needed.
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The Acme Steel Goods Company, Chicago, 111., is
planning a hot strip mill of the most modern type.
Contract for building has been awarded to the E. W.
Bliss Company, Brooklyn, N. Y.
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W. H. Wiewel, formerly assistant general sales
manager for the United Alloy Steel Corporation, Canton,
Ohio, has been made New York district sales
manager for the Standard Seamless Tube Company,
Pittsburgh. He succeeds B. F. Dart, who resigned,
effective February 1.
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Arthur T. Clarage, son of the late E. T. Clarage,
founder and first president of the Columbia Tool Steel
Company, Chicago Heights, 111., has been elected
president of that company, succeeding A. R. Waters,
retiring. Mr. Waters was one of the founders of the
company and has been active as general manager and
president since the company was formed in 1904.
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Henry Harnishfeger, president of the Harnishfeger
Corporation, until recently known as the Pawling &
Harnischfeger Company, Milwaukee, departed January
27 for New York to sail on a Mediterranean cruise of
six months.
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Walter F. Brumm has joined the sales force of the
Inland Steel Company at Kansas City, Mo. Mr.
Brumm has been with the National Enameling &
Stamping Company, Granite City, 111., and previously
vas in the St. Louis office of the Bethlehem Steel
Company and the Cambria Steel Company.
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C. A. Brangham has become associated with the
sales department of the Newton Steel Company,
Youngstown, Ohio. Mr. Brangham formerly was
identified with the Trumbull Steel Company, Warren,
Ohio.
George S. Adams, for the past six years service
engineer for the Bock Bearing Company, Toledo, became
chief engineer March 1. In his new position he
succeeds L. W. Close, who has resigned to enter another
line of business.
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W. R. Quinn has been appointed Pacific coast agent
with headquarters in San Francisco by the Combustion
Engineering Corporation, New York. Mr. Quinn
was formerly manager of the fuel oil department. His
address will be 1132 Shotwell Street, San Francisco.
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Harold F. Welch has been appointed New York
district sales manager for the Niles-Bement-Pond
Company, 111 Broadway, New York. He was affiliated
with the company's railroad department in
that district. M. P. Kirk was appointed assistant sales
manager, subordinate to E. L. Leeds. Mr. Kirk was
formerly the company's representative in the Cincinnati
district, where he is now being succeeded by
Elmer Gates of the Rochester office.
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M. F. Findley, district sales manager at Chicago
for the past nine years for the West Leechburg Steel
Company, Pittsburgh, has been transferred to Detroit
to take charge of the Michigan territory. He succeeds
A. J. Artnan, who has been transferred to Cleveland
to take charge of an office recently opened there.
L. W. Briggs, formerly assistant to Mr. Findley at
Chicago for the past four or five years, has been promoted
to succeed the latter as district sales manager.
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George Earl Wallis, editor of the National Safety
News, and director of publicity for the National Safety
Council, has resigned from those capacities. His new
connection will be as publicity counsellor for the
Reincke-Ellis Company, Chicago, an advertising organization.
* * *
Carman T. Fish, for the past two years associate
editor of the National Safety News, succeeds Mr.
Wallis as editor. Mr. Fish previously was associate
editor of The Inland Printer.
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William Larimer Jones, Jr., has been made a director
of the Jones & Laughlin Steel Corporation
Pittsburgh, by recent action of the board of directors.
W. L. Jones is the son of William Larimer Jones,
president of the corporation.
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William H. Klocke, recently elected vice president
and general manager of the Kleiner Manufacturing
Company, Richmond Hill, N. Y., manufacturer of
pressed forgings, had been chief engineer for 20 years
of the E. W. Bliss Company, Brooklyn, N. Y., builder
of machine tools.
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George B. Mitchell, who has been general manager
of sales, Union Drawn Steel Company, Beaver
Falls, Pa., for the past two years, was on February 1
elected vice president of the company. He will continue
to have charge of sales.
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Marshall Post, former manager of the American
Steel Foundries plant in Sharon, Pa., has been named
general manager of the Birdsboro Foundry & Machine
Company, Bird-boro, Pa. Mr. Post recently was mana-