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Burt & Mitchell Company
| Name | Burt & Mitchell Company |
| Ortssitz | Jersey City (N.J.) |
| Straße | Morris Street |
| Art des Unternehmens | Werft und Maschinenfabrik |
| Anmerkungen | Lage: foot of Morris Street, bis zur foot of Essex Street. Seit 1915 Teil der "Grymes Engineering Company" [http://www.marinelink.com]. |
| Quellenangaben | [Jersey City of to-day (1907) 83] |
| Zeit |
Ereignis |
| 1899 |
Gründung (Eintragung) |
| 21.09.1906 |
Tod von William Brown. William W. Gearhart wird sein Nachfolger. |
| Produkt |
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Bem. |
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Bem. |
Kommentar |
| Kesselreparaturen |
1899 |
Beginn (Gründung) |
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| Maschinenreparaturen |
1899 |
Beginn (Gründung) |
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vmtl. insbesondere (Schiffs-)Dampfmaschinen |
| Schiffsreparaturen |
1899 |
Beginn (Gründung) |
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| ZEIT | um 1907 |
| THEMA | Beschreibung |
| TEXT | The Burt & Mitchell Company, shipwrights and machinists, with balance dry docks, ship yards, saw mill and pattern
shop, blacksmith, boiler and machine shops, at the foot of Morris Street, through to the foot of Essex Street, Jersey City, was incorporated in 1899 and is to-day one of the busiest concerns along the Hudson River front. The corporation was the evolution from concerns of a similar nature that had existed in that locality for several
years before that time. John W. Mitchell its first president, had conducted a dry dock business there for years, and he was succeeded in the presidency by William Brown, who was the proprietor of the business known as the Vulcan Iron
Works, which was established in 1842 and employed machinists, blacksmiths and boiler-makers in the building and repairing of steamboats. During Mr. Brown's presidency he completed many improvements to the plant, which made it second to none in the port of New York for the facilities to repair vessels. The plant is new and up-to-date and a model of its kind. Steam, electricity and compressed air are used, with electric lights for night work on dry docks, in shops and on board boats. Repairs of any kind on wooden or iron vessels are made at any time with economy and despatch by competent and practical engineers and mechanics. The magnitude of the operations carried on in the plant
is enormous, and extensive business is also done in repairing and renewing boilers, engines, etc. of the various
manufacturing plants in and about Jersey City. Machinery repairs is their specialty, and propellor wheels are carried in stock ready to put on day or night. Cylinders are rebored on board ships on their foundations, and no job in their line is too large for them to handle. Materials of all kinds are constantly on hand. Following the death of William Brown on September 21, 1906, William W. Gearhart was elected president in his place. Mr. Gearhart was superintendent for many years during John W. Mitchell's presidency, and had been in the company's employ in that capacity since then. Alexander Morton is secretary and treasurer of the company, a position which he has held for several years. The company employs a large number of men, patronizing Jersey City industry in every case where possible, and is in the front rank among New Jersey's similar industries in its capacity for the prompt handling of repairs on all classes of vessels with economy and despatch. Vessels may procure new spars of any size at reasonable notice, and all timber used is of native wood when possible. The company has a large paid-up capital, and has an excellent credit at home and abroad. A visit to the Burt & Mitchell dry-docks will well repay any citizen who is interested in the process of ship-building and repairs, and will furnish him with a good example of one of the most prosperous manufacturing plants of Jersey City of to-day. The officials of the company will accord the most courteous treatment to any citizen who is interested in the matter. |
| QUELLE | [Jersey City of to-day (1907) 83] |
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