Metcalf, Paul & Co., Verona Tool Works

Allgemeines

Name	Metcalf, Paul & Co., Verona Tool Works
Ortssitz	Pittsburgh (Pa.)
Ortsteil	Verona
Art des Unternehmens	Eisenwarenfabrik
Anmerkungen	Lage der Werke in Verona, an der Alleghany Valley Railroad, zehn Meilen von der Stadt entfernt. Die Verwaltung inst in No. 1, McCance Block bzw. 17th Avenue und Liberty Street.
Quellenangaben	[Wiley: American iron trade manual (1874) 152] [Industries of Pittsburgh (1879) 133]

Unternehmensgeschichte

Zeit	Ereignis
1840	Geburt von O. Metcalf in Pittsburgh
1873	Gründung durch O. Metcalf und J. W. Paul

Produkte

Produkt	ab	Bem.	bis	Bem.	Kommentar
Hämmer	1874	[Wiley: American iron trade (1874)]	1874	[Wiley: American iron trade (1874)]	Vorgabe: Hammers
Maurerwerkzeuge	1874	[Wiley: American iron trade (1874)]	1874	[Wiley: American iron trade (1874)]	Vorgabe: stone-masons tools
Schmiedewerkzeuge	1874	[Wiley: American iron trade (1874)]	1874	[Wiley: American iron trade (1874)]	Vorgabe: blacksmith tools
Vorschlaghämmer	1874	[Wiley: American iron trade (1874)]	1874	[Wiley: American iron trade (1874)]	Vorgabe: sledges
Werkzeuge für den Gleisbau	1874	[Wiley: American iron trade (1874)]	1874	[Wiley: American iron trade (1874)]	Vorgabe: railroad-track tools

Betriebene Dampfmaschinen

Bezeichnung	Bauzeit	Hersteller
Dampfmaschine	vor 1879	unbekannt

Personal

Zeit	gesamt	Arbeiter	Angest.	Lehrl.	männl.	weibl.	Kommentar
1879	43

Allgemeines

ZEIT	1874
THEMA	Angaben zum Unternehmen
TEXT	The present factory, built early in 1873, is adapted to the manufacture of railroad-track tools of every description, the special line of goods being track chisels, spike mauls, sledges, napping, and striking hammers; these are made entirely by machinery, and at one heat, there being no hand work on them excepting finishing points or faces. The advantages in this way of manufacture of steel tools are claimed to be great; but one heating of the steel is required, thereby running no risk of over-heating or burning the material as is the case when tools are made wholly or in part by hand. The immense and uniform pressure given to the steel in forming the tools tends to greatly improve its quality, besides making a uniform tool. The firm manufactures also tools for blacksmiths, miners, and stone masons; and are prepared to do any forging required by railroads. The present capacity is from one hundred and fifty to two hundred per hour of any one of these articles. There are five forges with places for five more, two large furnaces, and three small furnaces, and a machine shop, with plenty of room to extend, having some six acres of ground. Railroad-track tools a specialty.
QUELLE	[Wigley: Iron industry (1874)]

ZEIT	1879
THEMA	Beschreibung
TEXT	A branch of those great Iron Industries that have made Pittsburgh the center of this production in the United States, the house of Metcalf, Paul & Co. can not properly be omitted from a work exclusively directed to a detailed description of the resources, development and special advantages of this city. Established by Messrs. O. Metcalf and J. W. Paul under the above style in l873, the efforts of the firm wore directed to the manufacture of solid steel tools, particularly such as are used in the construction or repair of Rail Road tracks. The works were erected at Verona, a few miles from the city, on the Allegheny Valley R.R., and specially adajtted in construction to the required purpose, being equipped with the best mechanical appliances that every modern improvement could suggest, and such processes adapted for the more perfect preparation and finisn of the material used, as should secure a product absolutely flawless. In the attainment of this desideratum the firm met with the most signal success, and the almost instant celebrity that followed led to a trade that at the present time is not limited to the United States, but extends to Brazil, South Africa, and the West Indies, the South American trade having grown to such proportions as to require the establishment of a branch office at Rio Janeiro. As manufacturers of solid steel tools exclusively, the firm of Metcalf, Paul & Co. have really no compeer in this country, and for lightness, strength, durability and economy their work is recognized and appreciated by every constructive engineer for its matchless superiority. The works at Verona are ample in extent, covering an area of nearly half an acre, one 50 horse power engine is required to drive the machinery, and 43 skilled operatives are constantly employed, making a disbursement necessary to this source alone of about $60.000 annually. The rapid increase of the business of the house at home has kept equal pace with its foreign operations, and for greater convenience in transacting trade with the West and North-West, a tributary establishment, trade house and office, at No. 40 Dearborn St., Chicago, affords in this direction all the necessary facilities. Mr. Metcalf is a native of Pittsburgh, born in 1840. He has always made his permanent residence in this city, and, within the range of his influence and domain, has to an equal extent with any other one citizen fostered and conserved, in every possible way, the interests of this city. The financial, clerical and general business management of the house fall to his care, while Mr. Paul, who is also a Pittsburgher by birth, gives his personal supervision to the operative, manufacturing departments of the work, for which he is admirably fitted by an enlarged experience and thorough education as a mechanician. During its comparatively short existance as a firm, the house of Metcalf, Paul & Co. have achieved a success so signal and complete as to rank them with the best and most extensive manufacturing enterprises in this or any other city. Closely identified with Pittsburgh, its development, industrial growth, and general prosperity, promoting all these to the greatest degree possible, the proprietors of the Verona Tool Works are deservedly awarded the highest consideration on the part of the community for which they have done so much.
QUELLE	[Industries of Pittsburgh (1879) 133]