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PLANT NEWS
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Ferro Enamel Supply Company, Cleveland, has
bought a two-story building which will be utilizedfor
the manufacture of equipment formerly purchased.
Offices remain in the Keith Building, where additional
space has been taken. The laboratory in the
Liberty Building is continued.
Metal Tube Manufacturing Company, Bremner
Manufacturing Company and United States Stamping
& Foundry Company, all of Chicago, have been consolidated
under the latter name at 1448 South Laflin
Street. Pattern, machine, die and tool making will be
carried on by the new company with larger facilities
than formerly. * * *
Benjamin Chalick and associates have organized a
company which has taken over the plant of the Wagner
Process Company, Lansing, Mich., for the production
of stamped metal ware and will add machinery
to turn out paper products.
* * *
Contract for a recuperative carbonization furnace
for the Carbon Products Company, Lancaster, Ohio,
has been awarded to the Chapman-Stein Furnace
Company, Mt. Vernon, Ohio. The furnace will be
used in the manufacture of carbon electrodes.
* * *
Crown Machine Company, 809 Winnebago street,
Milwaukee, Wis., has added equipment to produce
light and heavy stampings, installing modern presses.
The company heretofore has been building special machinery
for confectioners, bakers, printers and laundries,
as well as jigs and dies. L. E. Buchholz is
president. * * *
Corry-Jamestown Manufacturing Company, Corry,
Pa., manufacturer of steel furniture, has occupied its
new four-story plant. A large press and new ovens
are being installed.
The Thomson Electric Welding Company of
Lynn, Mass., has moved its Chicago office from 817
Washington Blvd. to 514 Machinery Hall, on West
Washington Street. The office is in charge of F. H.
Leslie. This company also announces that it has discontinued
its connection with the English & Miller
Machinery Company of Detroit and is now represented
in this territory by James A. Muir, whose
headquarters are in the General Motors Building. On
June 1 the Cincinnati office will be discontinued and
a new office opened at 852 Leader Building, Cleve
land, in charge of C. E. Seifert and M. G. Littlefield.
* * *
The Keiner Metal Forging Company, 8746 123rd
Street, Richmond Hill, N. Y., has been organized to
manufacture press forging brass, copper, duralumin
and steel. The building and equipment have been
provided. Output includes forgings up to 3 lb.
Henry A. Keiner, president, has been in this line since
1883. Harry C. Keiner is secretary-treasurer and W.
H. Klocke, who has been connected with the E. W.
Bliss Company for the past 15 years as chief engineer,
is vice president and manager . The company is a
subsidiary of the Keiner Williams Stamping Company.
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Contract has been let by the Heintz Manufacturing
Company, Front and Olney Streets, Philadelphia,
manufacturer of pressed steel automobile bodies, to
the William F. Newberry Company for a one-story
addition to cost $40,000.
* * *
The Marks-Fiske-Zeigler Company, South and
Rademacher Streets, Detroit, iron and steel products,
has acquired the plant on Artillery Avenue, fronting
on the lines of the Michigan Central and Wabash
Railroads, formerly occupied by the Motor City
Stamping Company. The structure approximates
15,000 sq. ft. of floor space, and will be remodeled as
a storage and distributing plant for steel sheets, terne
plate and other products.
* * *
National Machinery Company, Tiffin, Ohio, has
re-elected Earl Frost president and general manager.
Mrs. August Rehr was elected vice president, Henry
J. Weller secretary, Joseph P. Bork assistant secretary,
and William L. Hertzer treasurer.
Tessier Sheet Metal Works, Wisconsin Rapids,
Wis., has been bought by E. B. Bennett, Aberdeen,
S. D., who will continue operation.
Republic Flow Meters Company, Chicago, has
opened a factory branch at 617 Engineers Building,
Cleveland, in charge of L. C. Wilson, formerly in the
company's Pittsburgh office.
* * *
Smith-Springfield Body Corporation, West Springfield,
Mass., has been organized to take over a corporation
of the same name and the Springfield Body
Corporation, and bus bodies will be manufactured.
James N. Swift is president.
* * *
The Charles Parker Company, manufacturers of
hardware at Meriden, Conn., has increased its directorate
by the election of L. C. Parker, Charles Parker
and E. P. Lyon to the board. William H. Lyon, who
was secretary-treasurer of the company, has been
elected president to succeed Dexter Parker, decreased.
William R. Bannister was elected treasurer and
Charles S. Parker was elected secretary. Wilbur F.
Parker continues as vice president.
* * *
The W. W. Sly Manufacturing Company announces
the establishment of a branch office at 215
Security Bldg., Springfield, Mass. This office will be
in charge of Daniel L. Harris, who for some time past
has been assistant manager of sales.
* * *
Tobin Tool & Die Company, Fond du Lac, Wis.,
has leased the former plant of the Drophead Projector
Company in that city and will have triple its former
floor space. This move is made necessary by demands
of the Stewart-Warner Corporation, Chicago,
for tools for its radio production.
* * *
Badger Manufacturing Company, 156 Clinton
Street, Milwaukee, Wis., manufacturer of automobile
bumpers, has leased 50,000 sq. ft. in the former plant
of the Avery Company, Mitchell and Fifty-seventh
Streets, West Allis, Wis.