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:: The Pittsburgh gear and machine co.

Collection:: Economics Books

Joseph C. O’Brien, secretary; John Harper Jackson, assistant secretary. Frank H. Rea was formerly with Rea & Company, pork packers, whose business was dissolved after a disastrous fire about fifteen years ago. Mr. Rea looks after the financial end of the business and has devoted much of his time to developing the company. Henry E. Rea is a son of the president and after about five years of practical training in the shop in various cap- acities is now engaged in sales development work, in addition to his duties as assistant treasurer. John J. Jackson is one of the pioneers in the gear busi- ness, having worked his way from machine operator to the position of general superintendent of the plant of the R. D. Nuttal Co., one of the oldest gear manufacturing companies in the country. Mr. Jackson personally looks after the shop operation and is known throughout the gear industry as a “live wire.” Joseph C. O’Brien is also an “old-timer” in the gear business, having served in various capacities from machine operator to chief mechanical engineer of the R. D. Nuttall Company. Mr. O’Brien is in charge of the engineering, estimating and cost work of the company. John Harper Jackson is a son of John J. Jackson and after graduating from college was with the Sharpless Sepa- rator Co. and United States Cast Iron Pipe and Foundry Company. He then served as lieutenant in the Ordnance Department and is now in charge of the development of the business. In the hectic days at the opening of the World War this small company was not carried away by the abundance of opportunities for branching out from their chosen lines of endeavor, but calmly selected the work for which their organ- ization was best fitted to serve the country, mapping out a war program and a post-war program regarding policies to be followed in the development of the business. During the war they manufactured transmission gears for a number of the largest farm tractor companies in the country; also larger gears for ammunition presses, and kin-

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