Illinois Manufacturing Co. of Adrian, Michigan

Allgemeines

NameIllinois Manufacturing Co. of Adrian, Michigan
OrtssitzAdrian (Michigan)
Straße5th Avenue 51
Art des UnternehmensMaschinenfabrik
AnmerkungenUnternehmensleitung: President, P. L. Sword; Vizepresident und Superintendent, James E. Cross; Sekretär, Henry C. Hart. Hauptbüro und Adresse: Adrian, Michigan. Büro und Verkaufsraum in Chicago, 51 Fifth Avenue; dieser Zweig ist unter der Leitung von Mr. John S. Brewer. Das Werk ist in der Nähe des Hauptgleises der L. S. & M. S. Railway
Quellenangaben[Wiley: American iron trade manual (1874) 38]




Produkte

Produkt ab Bem. bis Bem. Kommentar
Bronzewaren 1874 [Wiley: American iron trade (1874)] 1874 [Wiley: American iron trade (1874)] Vorgabe: brass work
Eisenarbeiten 1874 [Wiley: American iron trade (1874)] 1874 [Wiley: American iron trade (1874)] Vorgabe: iron work
Laternen 1874 [Wiley: American iron trade (1874)] 1874 [Wiley: American iron trade (1874)] Vorgabe: lanterns
Maschinenbau 1874 [Wiley: American iron trade (1874)] 1874 [Wiley: American iron trade (1874)] Vorgabe: machine work
Schösser 1874 [Wiley: American iron trade (1874)] 1874 [Wiley: American iron trade (1874)] Vorgabe: locks
Zubehör für Eisenbahnwagen 1874 [Wiley: American iron trade (1874)] 1874 [Wiley: American iron trade (1874)] Als Spezialität




Allgemeines

ZEIT1874
THEMAAngaben zum Unternehmen
TEXTThe officers of the company are: President, P. L. Sword; Vizepresident and Superintendent, James E. Cross; The works of the Illinois Manufacturing Co. are close to the main track of the L. S. & M. S. Railway, and have a side track of their own passing their door. The building is an imposing three story-brick, 191 by 52 feet, with one-story brick additions, 113 by 66 feet, for the engine and boiler rooms, and brass and iron foundries. The company also own several acres of ground adjoining their works, and contemplate adding materially to their buildings at no distant day. The power is furnished by a 100 horse-power engine, supplied by two proportionate boilers built by Klots & Kromer, of Sandusky, Ohio. The main floor of the company's extensive building is taken up by their iron foundry, brass foundry, pattern room, engine and boiler rooms, bronzing department, silver and nickel plating department, stamping-press rooms, grinding and polishing rooms, an extensive store-room, the packing room, sample room, and the offices of the company. Their principal machine room is on the second floor, and is 125 by 52 feet. This room is splendidly lighted and ventilated, and heated by the exhaust steam from the engine, and contains every convenience for the accommodation of the employees and the successful prosecution of the business. The room is filled with expensive machinery especially adapted to the labor required of it, is in perfect order, and an object of especial pride to the managers of the company. The third floor is occupied as a lantern manufactory, and presents a busy appearance with its immense piles of tin lanterns, in every stage of completion, stacked from the floor to the ceiling, its noisy presses, stamps, and buffs, glowing soldering furnaces, and its many busy hands stamping, cutting, soldering, buffing, cleaning, and papering the many dozens of lanterns this company daily turns out for the numerous railroad companies in all parts of the Union who are its patrons. Adjoining this room is the glass department, where glass engraving, cutting, and embossing of every description is done by skilled and accomplished workmen and artists. The Illinois Manufacturing Company manufacture every description of railway-car trimmings used in the country, from the trimmings for the ordinary freight caboose to the most elegant drawing-room or palace sleeping coach; and have obtained a high reputation for the standard quality of goods they supply, their readiness to originate new designs to meet the views of their different customers, and their determination to keep at the head of the car-trimming business of the country. Their lamps and chandeliers for passenger cars are especially celebrated throughout the country, and there is scarcely a railroad in the United States but what has them in use. The company also manufacture every kind of locks known in railroad use, from switch and freight car locks to the most elegant bronze and silver palace-car door locks; and their lock department alone is a large and prosperous business. The company also manufacture lanterns for railroad use, fancy silver and nickel lanterns for em loyed. conductors' use, fine iron castings for use in passenger cars; and, in addition to their railroad customers, have a large trade with jobbers and dealers throughout the country in lanterns, brass goods, iron work, machine work, etc., etc. The company issue yearly a catalogue illustrating a large portion of the goods they manufacture, which they will be pleased to mail to any address free, upon application.
QUELLE[Wigley: Iron industry (1874)]