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W. & B. Douglas Manufacturing Company
| Name | W. & B. Douglas Manufacturing Company |
| Ortssitz | Middletown (Conn.) |
| Art des Unternehmens | Maschinenfabrik |
| Anmerkungen | [Wiley]: "W. & B. Douglas" mit New York Büro, 87 John Street. Obige Firmierung um 1868. |
| Quellenangaben | [Wiley: American iron trade manual (1874) 4] [Bishop: History of American manufacturers 3 (1868) 446] |
| Zeit |
Ereignis |
| 1832 |
Gründung durch William Douglas und W. H. Guild |
| 1832 |
Gründung durch William Douglas und W. H. Guild |
| 1842 |
Die Brüder William und Benjamin Douglas, Erfinder eine Pumpe mit Drehbewegung, entschließen sich, deren Produktion als Spezialität durchzuführen, und um diese Einzuführen, reisen sie mit einer Pumpe unter jedem Arm von Geschäft zu Geschäft. |
| 1858 |
Der ältere Bruder William Douglas stirbt, und eine neue Frima unter der Gesetzgebung von Connecticut wird gebildet unter dem alten Namen "W. & B. Douglas", dern Präsident Benjamin Douglas ist. |
| Produkt |
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Bem. |
bis |
Bem. |
Kommentar |
| hydraulische Maschinen |
1874 |
[Wiley: American iron trade (1874)] |
1874 |
[Wiley: American iron trade (1874)] |
Vorgabe: hydraulic machinery |
| Pumpen |
1874 |
[Wiley: American iron trade (1874)] |
1874 |
[Wiley: American iron trade (1874)] |
Vorgabe: Pumps |
| ZEIT | 1868 |
| THEMA | Firmenbeschreibung |
| TEXT | This concern was founded in 1832 by William Douglas and W. H. Guild, who then commenced business as machinists and manufacturers of small engines, but it dates its celebrity from 1842, when the brothers, William and Benjamin Douglas, having invented a novel Revolving Stand Pump, determined to make its manufacture a specialty, and for the purpose of introducing it traveled with a pump under each arm from store to store. At that time an iron or metallic pump was scarcely known, and it required the most persevering efforts to convince the public, then less disposed than now to encourage novelties, of their value. These men, however, who were grandsons of Col. Wm. Douglas, of Revolutionary fame, and descendants of the renowned Douglas of Scotland, whose motto, "jamais arriere" (never behind), they still maintain, came of stock that were not to be dismayed by difficulties, and, though their sales in the first year of their enterprise did not amount to three hundred pumps, they persevered until now the Douglas pump is a standard article in the stock of almost every dealer in American Hardware. In 1858, the elder brother, William Douglas, died, and a new Company, incorporated by a special charter granted by the Legislature of Connecticut, was formed, under the old name of W. & B. Douglas, of which Benjamin Douglas is President. Besides a great variety of Pumps, they manufacture Hydraulic Rams and Garden Engines, in which they have made important improvements, and also Wrought Iron Butts and Hinges. Their.sales now of Hydraulic machines alone amount to about $300.000 annually, and tlfeir market includes not only this country, but the Canadas, South America, the West Indies, Australia, and Europe, Asia, and nearly every portion of the civilized world. |
| QUELLE | [Bishop: History of American manufacturers 3 (1868) 446] |
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