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

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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:: Pittsburgh testing laboratory

Collection:: Economics Books

Buffalo, Miami, and Tampa, Fla., for physical tests of cement, concrete, sand, stone, metals of all kinds, wood, mat- erials used in highway construction, building materials and for boiler tests, power plant tests and other engineering problems. The present officers of the Pittsburgh Testing Labora- tory are: George T. Ladd, chairman of the board; James Milliken, president; F. V. Green, vice president; F. O. Gard- aer, secretary-treasurer, and A. R. Ellis, general manager. The directors include George T. Ladd, James Milliken, D. Frank Crawford, C. H. Curry, George H. Clapp, F. F. Brooks. A. R. Ellis. and John C. Slack. PITTSBURGH TRANSFORMER COMPANY The Pittsburgh Transformer Company is a Pennsylva- nia corporation and a peculiarly Pittsburgh institution throughout. Its plants and head offices are in Pittsburgh, owned in Pittsburgh, and all the employees are native Pitts- burghers. All officers are Pittsburghers. Over ninety per cent of the raw materials used are manufactured in Pitts- yurgh. This company’s business in 1901 was $20,000 a year. The business today occupies five complete city blocks, cov- ered with the most modern factories and equipped with the most modern and efficient machinery for the manufacture of all parts of transformers. This company is the only company in the world that manufactures all its parts, except accessories. No other company manufactures all its elec- trical parts and also all of its tanks, radiators and fabricated steel, which Pittsburgh Transformer Company does in its rarious North Side plants. The gross sales of the Company have grown in twenty- five years from $20,000 per annum to $6,000,000 per annum, and the company now is the largest independent manufac- turer of transformers in the United States, with a total num- her of employees of over six hundred. An interesting point here may be noted in reference to wages paid by Pittsburgh Transformer Companv. The

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