equipment for dairy farmers (pens, cow stanchions, steel tracks, hay racks, sanitary water bowls) ; custom barns ; farm building materials (metal roofing & siding, arenas, roof ventilators, barn door tracks, metal lath, tree protectors, troughs, barn and stable equipment) ; road building materials (snow fencing, bridge plates, culverts, hat fork carriers) ; fireproof construction materials for homes schools and public buildings. Circa 1930s and 1940s.
A worldwide multimarket company with many divisions organized into aerospace, consumer, industrial, metal product, and creative capital groups. Information on company's divisions and products. Ball bearings, ball bearing power transmission units, milling machines and attachments, drilling and boring equipment and attachments, grinding machines, tracing machines, numerical control systems for these machines, and accessories. Bostitch pneumatic staplers and nailers...this comprises the uncataloged portion.
FWD Co. ; Badger Four-Wheel Drive Auto Co. Search this
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Automobile transmissions ; trucks ; earth boring and pole setting equipment ; aerial ladder trucks ; fire fighting trucks and equipment ; public utility trucks ; Miller FWD Special Racing Car ; snow removal truck equipment ; center scraper plow ; airport snow removal trucks ; road maintenance trucks ; oil field trucks ; "Truck News" publication (vol. 40, no. 3 ; Annual Photo Review Issue) ; "Exhaustive Test of an FWD Truck by Purdue University, Lafayette, Indiana" ; The company built the first four wheel drive vehicle in the United States. During WWI, many of their 4X4 trucks were used by the US and British armies. ; credited with the invention of the four-wheel drive axle ; see entry in Dictionary of Wisconsin History: http://www.wisconsinhistory.org/dictionary/
Includes:
Trade catalog and photographs
Black and white images
Color images
Physical description:
81 pieces; 1 box
Language:
English
Type of material:
Trade catalogs
Trade literature
Place:
Clintonville, Wisconsin, United States
Date:
1900s
Topic (Romaine term):
Automobiles and automotive equipment (including trucks and buses) Search this
structures for storing minerals, supporting vehicles and machinery in mineral processing operations, and for supporting mining transportation and processing ;
Includes:
Trade catalog
Color images
Physical description:
1 piece; 1 box
Language:
English
Type of material:
Trade catalogs
Trade literature
Place:
Arlington, Virginia, United States
Date:
1900s
Topic (Romaine term):
Construction and earth-moving machinery Search this
Mining machinery; equipment and supplies Search this
Industrial equipment or mechanical machinery (including supplies and components) Search this
unique drawings of 1920 kerosene tractors and engines ; "Reliable-Heer" ; Heer ; oil and gas engines ; light and power plants ; Goulds Centrifugal and Triplex Pumps ; "Instruction for the Care and the Efficient Operation of Reliable Heer Engines" ;
Includes:
Trade catalog and manual
Black and white images
Physical description:
10 pieces; 1 box
Language:
English
Type of material:
Trade catalogs
Trade literature
Place:
Portsmouth, Ohio, United States
Date:
1900s
Topic (Romaine term):
Farm equipment and supplies (including dairy and poultry equipment) Search this
Industrial equipment or mechanical machinery (including supplies and components) Search this
