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Alan Wood & Co.
| Name | Alan Wood & Co. |
| Ortssitz | Philadelphia (Penns.) |
| Straße | Arch Street 519 |
| Art des Unternehmens | Eisenwerks-Unternehmen |
| Anmerkungen | Eigentümer der "Schuylkill Iron Works". |
| Quellenangaben | [Ironworks of the United States (1876) 80] [Philadelphia and popular Philadelphians (1891) 155] |
| Zeit |
Ereignis |
| 1826 |
Gründung |
| 1886 |
Eingetragen (incorporated) |
| Produkt |
ab |
Bem. |
bis |
Bem. |
Kommentar |
| Betrieb von Eisenhüttenwerken |
1826 |
Beginn |
1881 |
[Philadelphia] |
Siehe betriebene Werke! |
Zeit = 1: Zeitpunkt unbekannt
| ZEIT | 1891 |
| THEMA | Beschreibung |
| TEXT | A typical Philadelphia manufacturing concern, is the Alan Wood Company, proprietors of the Schuylkill Iron Works. The
business was established in 1826, and incorporated under its present style in 1886, with Howard Wood, as president, and J. R. Jones, as secretary and treasurer. From the modest beginning of over half a century ago, the business has expanded to such proportions that this company are now among the largest producers in their line in the country. Originally the product of the house was 300 tons per annum, and increased to 15,000 tons, and on completion of extension to present mills, will have a capacity of 20.000 tons per year of sheet iron, and steel. The imitation Russia iron, now known as patent planished iron, was first manufactured by this company, and are now the sole and exclusive manufacturers of this sheet iron, which has become in general demand. The mills of the company are located on the Schuylkill river, at Conshohocken, twelve miles from the city of Philadelphia. The products embrace, sheet iron, and sheet steel, black and galvanized patent planished sheet iron and common and charcoal bloom sheets, and plate iron and steel. The works are among the largest of their kind in the country, covering an area of several acres. The buildings, including sheet aud plate mills, galvanizing works, etc. These are equipped with all the latest improved machinery known to modern science and apparatus necessary for the systematic conduct of the business, and employment is given to about 600 skilled workmen. The machinery which has gained an enviable reputation for the model establishment is peculiarly adapted for the purpose for which it is employed. The black and galvanized sheet iron, charcoal and common sheet and plate iron, also the best quality of steel sheets and plates manufactured by this well-known company, are unsurpassed by the finest productions of domestic and foreign manufacturers. The company makes a specialty of corrugated sheet iron, both black and galvanized, used for roofings and sidings, which is in use all over the States, aud in many instances for the complete erection of storage warehouses, rolling mills, foundries, elevators and other buildings in which fire-proof construction is most essential. The Company have long made a specialty of gas-holder, pan and elbow, shovel, tack, water pipe, smoke stack, last, stamping, locomotive headlight and Jack iron, aud the largest consumers of these materials in the country are numbered among the permanent customers. The growth and prosperity of this reliable concern are only commensurate with the energy, ability and enterprise of its proprietors, who are sedulously engaged in maintaining the character of their productions and thereby meeting the most exacting demands of the trade. From the inception of the business it has been under a management which has identified the concern with the introduction of a new and valuable process of manufacture, notably the "patent planishing process," through which has resulted the product sold as "Patent Planishing Sheet Iron," and conceded to be superior to the best imported Russia Iron. The principal railroads in the United States and Canada have adopted the patent planished sheet iron for covering the boilers of their locomotives. The planishing process imparts to it that beautiful gloss aud dappled appearance peculiar only to Russia Iron, closing the pores so effectually that it will resist the action of the atmosphere superior to any other iron in existence. The main offices and warerooms of the Company are at No. 519 Arch street, in this city, and here they carry in stock complete lines of all the leading specialties, enabling them to fill the largest orders at the shortest possible notice. The concern is undoubtedly, whether considered by the quality of its productions or the extent of its operations, one of the first in its line in the country and has a history which is in full accord with the spirit of the age. The Alan Wood Company will be well represented at the World's Columbian Exposition to be held at Chicago, Illinois, in 1893. |
| QUELLE | [Philadelphia and popular Philadelphians (1891) 155] |
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