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Oregon Iron Works, Inc. (OIW) is an American manufacturer of complex structural components and systems and specialized vehicles, located in the Clackamas area in the southeastern suburbs of Portland, Oregon (within the Portland metropolitan area). Established in 1944, it is involved in a number of different industries, supplying products ...
The Polson Iron Works was an Ontario-based firm which built large steam engines, as well as ships, barges and dredges. [ 1 ] Founded by William Polson (1834–1901) and son Franklin Bates Polson , the firm was incorporated in 1886 and it was one of the original shipyards operating in Toronto.
The yard in 1945 Newly constructed sternwheelers fitting out at Willamette Iron Works in 1898. Willamette Iron Works (also known as Willamette Iron and Steel Company or WISCO ) was a general foundry and machine business established in 1865 in Portland, Oregon , originally specializing in the manufacture of steamboat boilers and engines. [ 1 ]
The Vulcan Iron Works, based in Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania, manufactured railroad locomotives such as those shown in the illustration. [1] The company was established in 1849 by Richard Jones. It built locomotives such as the preserved Berlin Mills Railway 7 (1911), and by 1944 was constructing both steam and diesel locomotives, as illustrated ...
By the end of the war, the Joshua Hendy Iron Works had supplied the engines for 754 of America's 2,751 Liberty ships, or about 28% of the total - more than that of any other plant in the country [2] [9] and the main engines of all Tacoma-class frigates (2 per ship) built on the West Coast, 18 by Consolidated Steel in Wilmington and 12 by Kaiser ...
The firm was the successor to the firm of Owens, Ebert & Dyer (founded in 1845 by Job E. Owens) which went into receivership in 1876. [1]In 1882, George A. Rentschler, J. C. Hooven, Henry C. Sohn, George H. Helvey, and James E. Campbell merged the firm with the iron works of Sohn and Rentschler, [1] [2] and adopted the name Hooven, Owens, Rentschler Co.
Reese James Llewellyn (30 August 1862 – 15 December 1936) was a Welsh-American businessman. He was the co-founder and president of Llewellyn Iron Works, a company based in Los Angeles, which provided iron works and steel for the construction of buildings in Southern California, the Western United States, Mexico, and South America.
In early 1897 the engine was described as Blackstone's oil engine, Carter's patent, [8] [9] but by September this had changed to "Blackstone's Patent Oil Engine". This was produced in large numbers and became a key product for the company - at the time of Frank Carter's death in 1934 there were over 100,000 of these engines in all parts of the ...