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The union was founded in 1809 in Bolton as the Friendly Iron Moulders' Society.Unlike the many friendly societies which focused on mutual welfare, it organised workers with the aim of improving their working conditions. [2]
P.E. Guerin (/ ɡ ə ˈ r ɪ n /; officially P.E. Guerin, Inc.) is the oldest decorative hardware firm in the United States and the only foundry based in New York City. [1] Founded in 1857 by French-born immigrant Pierre Emmanuel Guerin (d. 1911), it has remained in its current location in the Greenwich Village since 1892.
The Cambria Iron Company of Johnstown, Pennsylvania, was a major producer of iron and steel that operated independently from 1852 to 1916.The company adopted many innovations in the steelmaking process, including those of William Kelly and Henry Bessemer.
Adrian Janes (February 4, 1798 – March 2, 1869) was the owner of a significant American iron foundry in the Bronx, New York.. The foundry created iron work for many notable projects, including the Capitol Dome of the U.S. Capitol Building in Washington DC, the Bow Bridge in Central Park and railings for the Brooklyn Bridge.
Fulton was born at Dundee, Scotland, to a wrought-iron worker, Thomas Fulton (d.1866), and Isabella, née Wheelwright.He was apprenticed to a machine-maker but migrated in February 1842 to Port Phillip in partnership with Robert Langlands, whose brothers George and Henry had previously come to the colony to start a metal works.
Bartlett-Hayward Company was an American metalworking company with large foundry, fabrication, and construction business lines, located in Baltimore, Maryland.Founded in the 1830s, [1] it was independent until 1925 and since 1927 was owned by Koppers, [2] of which it remained a division long afterward.
The Fitzroy Iron Works at Mittagong, New South Wales, was the first commercial iron smelting works in Australia.It first operated in 1848. From 1848 to around 1910, various owners and lessees attempted to achieve profitable operation but ultimately none
A mowing machine designed and manufactured by H.B. Hawke in 1867 A cast-iron machinery component produced by the foundry. Henry Binney Hawke (October 1827 – 17 March 1904), usually referred to as H. B. Hawke, was an industrialist in Kapunda, South Australia, who founded the manufacturing business that became H. B. Hawke & Co.