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Delaware Rolling Mill, Hughes & Patterson
| Name | Delaware Rolling Mill, Hughes & Patterson |
| Ortssitz | Philadelphia (Penns.) |
| Straße | Richmond Street |
| Art des Unternehmens | Walzwerk |
| Anmerkungen | Lage: Richmond Street, Otis Street und Aramingo Canal (Südost-Ecke). Herstellung von Handelseisen. |
| Quellenangaben | [Hexamer General Surveys, Plates 1076+2798-2799 (1876+1894)] [Philadelphia and popular Philadelphians (1891) 155] |
| Zeit |
Ereignis |
| 1870 |
Erbaut |
| 1870 |
Gründung durch John H. Hughes und Robert Patterson. Sie errichten die Delaware Rolling Mill |
| 1877 |
Walter Hatfield wird Teilhaber |
| 1884 |
Bau des Bürogebäudes |
| 1885 |
Bau des Werks an der Richmond Street |
| 1889 |
Erwerbung der "Philadelphia Rolling Mill" |
| Produkt |
ab |
Bem. |
bis |
Bem. |
Kommentar |
| Handelseisen |
1876 |
[Hexamer] |
1894 |
[Hexamer] |
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| Zeit |
Objekt |
Anz. |
Betriebsteil |
Hersteller |
Kennwert |
Wert |
[...] |
Beschreibung |
Verwendung |
| 1876 |
Dampfkessel |
16 |
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unbekannt |
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| 1894 |
Dampfpumpen |
3 |
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A. S. Cameron & Co., Engineers |
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| 1894 |
Dampfkessel |
19 |
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unbekannt |
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| 1894 |
Dampfmaschinen |
15 |
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unbekannt |
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| ab Jan. 1886 |
Dampfkessel |
2 |
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Babcock & Wilcox Co. |
Heizfläche ges. |
223 |
qm |
Wasserrohrkessel |
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| Zeit |
gesamt |
Arbeiter |
Angest. |
Lehrl. |
männl. |
weibl. |
Kommentar |
| 1876 |
100 |
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100 - 150 Arbeiter (ca. 25 Jungen). |
| 1894 |
300 |
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ca. 25 Jungen |
| ZEIT | 1891 |
| THEMA | Beschreibung |
| TEXT | While only two persons are mentioned in the firm name, yet there are three members of the firm - John O. Hughes, Robert Patterson and Walter Hatfield. Their experience has covered a period of many years, and it can be said of them that they are as ably fitted for the successful management of the iron business as any group of gentlemen known to the trade. Mr. Hughes is a native of Wales, but emigrated to the "States" when quite young. He has long been identified with iron industries, and was at one time with the firm of Morgan & Caskey. Mr. Patterson hails from Montgomery county, Pa., and previous to casting his fortunes with the present firm was connected with the Fairhill Forge and Rolling Mills, with which he continued thirteen years. These two gentlemen organized the business in 1870, and erected their first mill, known as the "Delaware Rolling Mill," at Richmond and Otis streets, Kensington, Philadelphia, in that year. Its equipment includes ten single puddling furnaces, six heating furnaces and five train rolls; its capacity is 18.000 tons per year. In 1877 Walter Hatfield was admitted to the firm, entering it immediately upon having completed a collegiate course of studies. In 1889 the Philadelphia Rolling Mill at Beach and Vienna streets was purchased and added to the plant. It was built in 1858, and has eight double puddling furnaces, one busheling furnace, five heating furuaces and four train rolls. The total capacity of both mills is 27.000 tons net per annum. The product includes merchant bars, scrolls, ovals, half-ovals, half-round, and horse-shoe iron, etc., and in quality is unsurpassed. The firm give their personal attention to every detail, and as they know the requirements of the trade they use their every endeavor to meet them. That they have been successful in sodoiug their prosperity and constantly increasing business bears ample testimony. Their management is conservative, and yet energetic and progressive, and by their promptness in filling all orders and superiority of their irons they have obtained prominent distinction in the iron trade of the country, among whom they have many warm friends and patrons. |
| QUELLE | [Philadelphia and popular Philadelphians (1891) 155] |
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