The company furnishes all the leading water works, railroads
and industrial plants with its automatic valves because
they are indispensable for efficient and economic
operation and for preventing loss of life and property in case
of accidents. The valves are furnished in bronze, cast iron
and cast steel, according to the service requirements and conditions.
Prominence was given to the correct mechanical design
of these valves by tests made by the Steel Corporation, who
wanted only the best for life and property protection, and
the Golden-Anderson valves proved their merit and durability
over all competitive makes of similar valves which
were included in that test.
The company only builds automatic control valves, and
most prominent among its designs are automatic valves for
boilers to protect life and property in case of boiler or steam
line explosions; for steam engines to prevent fly-wheel explosions;
altitude valves to maintain a constant water level
in tanks, standpipes and reservoirs without the use of floats
or complicated fixtures; and regulating pressure valves for
reducing a higher pressure to a lower fixed pressure.
The officers of the company are C. E. Golden, president;
E. V. Anderson, vice president; D. B. Golden, treasurer,
and J. A. Voland, secretary. Representatives of the company
are established in all the principal cities of the United
States.
THE HEPPENSTALL FORGE & KNIFE CO.
Back in 1889, in a little building about twenty-five by
fifty feet, the Samuel Trethewey & Co., Ltd., was organized
for the manufacture of shears and rolling mill machinery.
Samuel Trethewey, the founder of this company, held some
patents on certain parts of steam hammers and shears.
The next year, 1890, the name of the firm was changed
to the Trethewey Manufacturing Co. and the plant was
moved to a plot of ground fifty by one hundred thirty-five
feet, at 47th and Hatfield Streets, about the middle of the
present location of the Heppenstall Forge and Knife Co.
At this same time, the company also began the manufacture
of shear knives.
