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Hyde Windlass Company
| Name | Hyde Windlass Company |
| Ortssitz | Bath (Maine) |
| Art des Unternehmens | Maschinenfabrik |
| Anmerkungen | Benannt nach General Thomas W. Hyde, dem Gründer der "Bath Iron Works". Gelegen etwa 200 m südlich der "Bath Iron Works", die daraus 1890 entstanden. Spezialisiert auf Schiffswinden. |
| Quellenangaben | [12th annual report of the Bureau of Industrial and Labour Statistics for the State of Maine (1898) 133] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bath_Iron_Works |
| Zeit |
Ereignis |
| 1897 |
Eintragung |
| Produkt |
ab |
Bem. |
bis |
Bem. |
Kommentar |
| Dampfwinden |
1898 |
[12th annual report] |
1898 |
[12th annual report] |
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| Schiffswinden |
1898 |
[12th annual report] |
1898 |
[12th annual report] |
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| ZEIT | 1898 |
| THEMA | Beschreibung |
| TEXT | The original business of the Bath Iron Works was the manufacture of windlasses, castings and other appliances for vessels. This business is now separated from the Iron Works and is carried on by the new corporation. The plant of the Hyde Windlass Company is located about one-eighth of a mile south of the Iron Works. The machine shop is 285 feet long by 80 feet wide; the foundry is 1 50 feet by 100 ; the pattern shop is 40 by 50 feet, and the pattern storehouse is 130 by 40 feet. The machine shop is built of steel, brick and slate and is completely fire proof. The plant employs 175 men. The capital invested is $150,000. The value of the production last year was 225.000 and the total amount paid in wages was 110.000. The goods go all over the United States, and some foreign orders are
received. The windlasses made here are in general use by the government, the lighthouse service and the largest steamer now building. The "St. Louis" and the "St. Paul" of the American line were supplied with windlasses by this plant. The foundry is the largest and most complete north of Boston and is doing a large business in the Hyde manganese bronze, mainly in propeller wheels. The officers of the company are: J. S. Hyde, President ; E.
W. Hyde, Secretary; J. R. Andrews, Manager. The Maine Central Railroad has a side track extending to the plant. Both
this plant and that of the Iron Works use electricity as a motive power, supplied by the Bath Gas and Electric Company. This plant furnished the battleship windlasses for the Union Iron Works, San Francisco, for the Cramps at Philadelphia, and for the Newport News Company of Virginia.
It recently shipped twelve capstans to Seattle. It built the
windlass and capstan for Howard Gould's yacht, Niagara, built
at Wilmington, Delaware. It is building the windlass and cap-
stans for Col. Payne's yacht. It made the machinery for twenty-
one barges built in Bath last season. It is making the wind-
lasses for the two Ward line steamers now being built by the
Cramps, also the windlasses for the three steamers being built
by the International Navigation Company. It is fitting out all
the ships in the Merchants' and Miners' Transportation Com-
pany with Hyde manganese bronze.
All that has been said of the value and importance of the Bath
Iron Works can truthfully and emphatically be said of the
Hyde Windlass Company. Maine should be proud of two such
industries, and of the soldier citizen who had the enterprise and
the ability to establish them in her borders.
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| QUELLE | [12th annual report of the Bureau of Industrial and Labour Statistics for the State of Maine (1898) 132] |
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