Frick & Co.

Allgemeines

NameFrick & Co.
OrtssitzChester (Pa.)
Art des UnternehmensSchiffswerft
AnmerkungenGelegen neben der Werft von "Reaney, Son & Archbold". Vorher unter der Firma "Frick, Slifer & Co." in Louisburg, Pa. Baute überwiegend Kanalschiffe. Die Werft ging inflationsbedingt in Konkurs.
Quellenangaben[Ashmead: History of Delaware County (1884) 392]




Unternehmensgeschichte

Zeit Ereignis
1860 William Frick und William Wilson, vorher unter der Firma "Frick, Slifer & Co.", Louisburg, Pa., kommen nach Chester und kaufen einen Landstreifen am Fluß in Nachbarschaft von "Reaney, Son & Archbold".




Produkte

Produkt ab Bem. bis Bem. Kommentar
Binnenschiffe 1860 Beginn in Chester   ging in Konkurs  




Allgemeines

ZEITab 1860
THEMAFirmengeschichte
TEXTWilliam Frick and William Wilson erected piers, which extended nearly seven hundred feet from the fast land into the water, and expended thousands of dollars in filling in the low and marshy ground so that it might be utilized for the purposes of a boat-yard. The firm made a specialty of building canal-boats, and had established a large business, giving employment to nearly a hundred hands, when the civil war unsettled value and so advanced the costs of materials that it was very precarious to enter into heavy contracts to be carried out in the future. Frick & Co. had undertaken to build a large number of canal-boats at a designated price, which at the period the contract was entered into, and the cost of material at that time, promised to yield a large profit to the builder, but the inflation came, lumber and iron advanced threefold in value. The parties for whom the boats were to be built demanded that the firm should carry out its contract, although to do so would entail the loss of many thousands of dollars. Finding that the strict letter of the agreement would be required, Frick & Co. strove to carry out their obligation in good faith, but the losses entailed embarrassed them, and culminated ultimately in financial failure. The boats were delivered, but the builders were ruined, and that in a contract which when made promised a large margin of profit.
QUELLE[Ashmead: History of Delaware County (1884) 392]