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Variant company name:

Ansonia and Derby, Connecticut, foundry and manufacturer of heavy machinery. Founded in 1848 as Almon Farrel and Company in Ansonia, changing its name to Farrel Foundry in 1850. Reorganized in 1857 as the Farrel Foundry and Machine Company; merged with the Birmingham Iron Foundry (founded in 1836) in 1927 to form Farrel-Birmingham Company, Inc. Acquired Consolidated Machine Tool Corporation in 1951; changed its name again to Farrel Company in 1963. Became a division of United Shoe Machinery and was part of the merger of that company with Emhart Corporation in 1976. Emhart Corporation dissolved in 1989 when it merged with Black & Decker Corporation.  Search this

Company Name:

Farrel Corp.  Search this

Related companies:

Farrel-Birmingham Co., Inc., Buffalo, NY; Farrel Foundry & Machine Co., Ansonia, CT and Buffalo, NY; Birmingham Iron Foundry, Derby, CT; Consolidated Machine Corp. of America, Rochester, NY.  Search this

Notes content:

Machining center; open-side milling; roll contouring; duplex cavity miller; boring, drilling machines. Hydraulic, track-mounted forging manipulators. Meehanite alloy. Speed reducers; cylinder grinder; gearflex couplings; Farrel-Sykes gear generators, gears and gear units. Four-roll washer for washing rubber; hose machinery for wrapped hose; hand screw presses; rubber mills; mixing aprons for rubber mills; experimental equipment for rubber laboratories; safety devices, motor drive units for rubber machinery; hydraulic multiple presses; hydraulic accumulators; alligator, trimming, vertical shears; cinder grinder; universal shaft coupling; herringbone gears; helical gears ; spur gears ; coil friction clutches. Farrel & Bacon ore and rock crushing machinery: revolving screens, elevators, conveyors, etc. ; see also cataloged portion of this company shelved mostly under Farrel Corp. ;

Includes:

Trade catalog

Black and white images

Physical description:

43 pieces; 1 box

Language:

English

Type of material:

Trade catalogs

Trade literature

Place:

Ansonia, Connecticut, United States

Date:

1900s

Topic (Romaine term):

Engines and motors: steam; oil; gas; etc.  Search this

Foundries; supplies and equipment  Search this

Iron and steel products (castings; sheet steel; steel wire; wire rope; pig iron and structural steel products )  Search this

Machine tools and metalworking equipment  Search this

Materials handling equipment (includes barrels; bottling and filling; casters; chains; etc.)  Search this

Mills and milling supplies  Search this

Mining machinery; equipment and supplies  Search this

Plastics and rubber  Search this

Topic:

Barrels  Search this

Bottling  Search this

Engines  Search this

Foundries  Search this

Industrial equipment  Search this

Iron industry and trade  Search this

Machine-tools  Search this

Metal-working machinery  Search this

Milling machinery  Search this

Mining machinery industry  Search this

Motors  Search this

Plastics industry and trade  Search this

Rubber industry and trade  Search this

Steel industry and trade  Search this

Record ID:

SILNMAHTL_14519

Location:

Trade Literature at the American History Museum Library

Collection:

Smithsonian Libraries Trade Literature Collections

Data source:

Smithsonian Libraries

EDAN-URL:

edanmdm:SILNMAHTL_14519