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Douglass Manufacturing Company
| Name | Douglass Manufacturing Company |
| Ortssitz | New York City |
| Straße | Beekman Street 70 |
| Art des Unternehmens | Werkzeugfabrik |
| Anmerkungen | Fabriken in Arlington (Vt.) und Seymour (Ct.), Warenhaus und Verkaufsraum in der 70 Beekman street |
| Quellenangaben | [Bishop: History of American manufacturers 3 (1868) 214] |
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[Bishop: Hist. of Amer. manuf. I (1868)] |
1868 |
[Bishop: Hist. of Amer. manuf. I (1868)] |
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| ZEIT | 1868 |
| THEMA | Firmenbeschreibung |
| TEXT | Has selected a wider range than the Collins Company in its productions, which include a great variety of the most useful of Mechanics' Tools. Within a few years this Company has also become quite famous for producing Tools of superior quality, especially Edge Tools and Boring Implements. At the late Exposition in Paris, notwithstanding the best shops in Europe were represented by their products, the Douglass Manufacturing Company was awarded a Medal over them all for the superiority of its Edge Tools. Although not the originators of that indispensable instrument, the Auger, to this Company belongs the credit of having done more than any other to bring it to its present state of perfection. They are the sole manufacturers of Cook's Patent Boring Implements, which, discriminating mechanics who have used them assert, are superior to any other instruments of the kind that have vet been invented. The Douglass Manufacturing Company have two distinct factories, one located at Arlington, Vermont, and the other at Seymour, Connecticut. The factory at Seymour consists of two series of buildings; the first being located close to the Naugatuck river, and the other about one hundred yards higher up. The lower factory is devoted to the manufacture of the ordinary class of goods. The number of hands engaged in the several departments in these buildings is over one hundred, exclusive of some females who are employed in packing and labelling the goods when fully finished and ready for market. The factory is supplied with a great variety of new and improved machinery, which never fails to execute the purposes for which it has been constructed with much rapidity and mathematical precision; and the effective manner, as well as the ease and facility with which the various operations are performed, is no less astonishing, than the machinery employed is ingenious and creditable to the inventors. The upper factory consists of a series of five buildings, appropriated to the production of the higher class or quality of goods. In these buildings the machinery is of a somewhat finer order. About one hundred mechanics are kept at work in the several shops, making in all over two hundred employed in the manufactory. We may remark, that the company have just perfected a machine for bending the handles of cork screws, which will be a great saving of time, and insure the performance of that part of the work with a precision and despatch hitherto unknown. The utmost order and regularity pervade every department of all the buildings. Nothing is done in a hurry, as is too often the case in manufactories of the kind. Perfection in every implement, large or small, which is turned out, is the standing and inflexible rule of the establishment. With regard to the implements or tools which were in process of manufacture at this establishment, we noticed cast steel spoke trimmers, screw cap or new pattern hollow augers, short and long bright augers, millwrights' augers, boring machine augers, ring augers, C. S. augur bits, patent extension bits, gimlets of all styles and varieties, Douglass's Patent Excelsior Expanding Hollow Augers. This, be it observed, is an entirely new tool, unlike any thing ever before produced. It secures all the efficiency and avoids the complications of the tools manufactured for this purpose heretofore, while it will also answer the purpose of a full set of eight or ten hollow augers. Under the head of Cork Screws, there are some eighteen or twenty sizes and styles, including the patent cork screws. Besides these, we found picking irons, round belt punches, carpet stretchers, tap borers, etc., all of which are most useful in their way, made of the best material, and finished in a style to please the expectation and taste of the most critical and fastidious. In addition to the foregoing, we observed at the Seymour manufactory Cook's Patent Boring Implements, which are exclusively made by this company, and got up in a style of great efficiency and elegance. It is almost unnecessary to say, that the boring implements made under Cook's patent have become highly prized by all who have occasion to use this particular class of tools, and are recommended by many as decidedly superior to any other instrument of the kind yet invented. The Douglass Manufacturing Company has at the Seymour factory a machine room for making all the tools they require, and keeping those in use in perfect order. It also makes up such handles as are required for files, augers, gimlets, cork screws, tap borers, etc. Having perfected machinery, the company is also able to produce wooden boxes of any size, from the smallest required for tools to the largest sized tool chest, quite as cheap and much more durable than paper boxes. The wood boxes of this company are suitable for the retail hardware trade or adapted for any goods requiring a compact and durable package. All the company's regular goods are packed in wood instead of paper. About two hundred men are employed in the manufactory at Seymour, and an equal number in the factory at Arlington, in all about four hundred hands. At both of their manufactories the company have a large water power, and as the machinery is of the most efficient and improved description, the producing capacity of the works is greater than that of any other similar concern in the United States. Since the success of this company at the Paris Exposition, their manufactures are finding favor with European buyers, and some shipments have already been made to Scotland, a convincing proof that a critical people regard them superior to any in their home market. The Company have a warehouse and salesroom in New York, at No. 70 Beekman street, which is under the charge of Thomas Douglass, one of the principal proprietors. |
| QUELLE | [Bishop: History of American manufacturers 3 (1868) 214] |
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