The story of Pittsburgh: Diversified products

Diversified products (Vol. 1, nr. 13)

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Identifikator:: 1831622599

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Title:: The story of Pittsburgh

Place of publication:: Pittsburgh

Publisher:: First National Bank

Year of publication:: 1919-1930

Collection:: Economics Books

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Identifikator:: 183162365X

URN:: urn:nbn:de:zbw-retromon-241129

Document type:: Volume

Title:: Diversified products

Volume count:: Vol. 1, nr. 13

Place of publication:: Pittsburgh

Publisher:: First National Bank

Year of publication:: 1927

Scope:: [ca. 80] Seiten

Digitisation:: 2022

Collection:: Economics Books

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Title:: A. M. Byers company

Collection:: Economics Books

The higher cost of Byers Pipe originates in the old- fashioned puddling operation—slow and laborious, but the only known method of producing the highest quality of wrought iron. However, to the eye of the layman, genuine wrought iron looks much like the cheaper metal, steel. It has therefore been necessary for the Byers Company to de- vise distinguishing marks for their product, and for more than ten years the name Byers in raised letters, followed by two figures indicating year of manufacture, have been rolled into the metal and repeated each three or four feet on every ength of Byers pipe. Since early in 1925, an additional marking has been provided in the form of a colored stripe which winds around each piece of pipe from end to end. It is painted on by machinery in the course of the several inspections to which the pipe is subjected prior to shipment. This stripe is visible from any angle, at distances of 50 feet or more, and makes Byers Pipe, either black or galvanized, the most zasily identified of any pipe made. Byers nipples are also marked with the Byers name and the thickness; that is. whether standard or extra heavy weight. Among the notable modern structures in which many miles of Byers Pipe are in service, are the Woolworth Build: ing and the Pennsylvania Hotel, New York; Stevens Hotel, Chicago; William Penn Hotel, Pittsburgh; Southwestern Bell Telephone Building, St. Louis; Standard Oil Building, Baltimore; General Motors Building, Detroit; Dexter-Horton National Bank, Seattle; Seville-Biltmore Hotel, Havana; Marunouchi Building, Tokio, and many others equally well known. The Byers Company operates a blast furnace, puddle and rolling mills at Girard, Ohio, and puddle and pipe mills at Sixth and Bingham Streets, South Side, Pittsburgh. These two plants employ from 2,500 to 3,000 men. The principal business office of the company is at 235 Water Street, Pittsburgh, with the general sales office in the Union Bank Building, Pittsburgh. Branch sales offices are maintained in Boston, New York, Rochester, Philadelphia, Pittsburgh, Cleveland, Chicago, St. Louis, Jacksonville, Birmingham, Houston, Tulsa and Los Angeles.

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