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Title: Architect and engineer
Year: 1905 (1900s)
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Subjects: Architecture Architecture Architecture Building
Publisher: San Francisco : Architect and Engineer, Inc
Contributing Library: San Francisco Public Library
Digitizing Sponsor: San Francisco Public Library

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aivey Hubbell, Inc., manufacturers ofelectrical specialties, Bridgeport, Conn.,and represented on the Pacific Coast byGarnett, Young and Co., 612 Howardstreet, San Francisco, have ready fordistribution to architects and others in-terested in electrical specialties a seriesof useful booklets or circulars preparedby Rickard and Company, New York. Allthe leaflets are profusely illustrated,their titles being as follows: HubbellShade Holders, Hubbell Te Taps,Hubbell Brass Shell and Candle Soc-kets, Hubbell Plugs. Referring tothe convenience of Hubbell Te-Slots, oneof the circulars reads: A wiring deviceequipped with Hubbell Te-Slots is alwaysready to take any standartl attachmentplug cap, whether its blades are parallelor tandem. Double springs grip eachcap blade on two sides; live contacts can-not be reached except by the cap blades;any spark at make or break is concealed.The Te-Slot is a Hubbell invention—itsexcellence is tvpical of all Hubbell pro-ducts. 112 THE ARCHITECT AND ENGINEER
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THE ARCHITECT AND ENGINEER 113 Kichniond Pressed Brick Company Of San Franciscos many thrifty in-dustries probably none has shown greaterexpansion in the last year or two thanthe Richmond Pressed Brick Companywhose general offices are in the Sharonbuilding, and manufacturing plant atPoint Richmond, Contra Costa county.The Richmond yards weie originally es-tablislied as the Northern Californiabranch of the Los Angeles Pressed BrickCompany. This was in 1906. Only com-mon biick were manufactured then, thekilns having a capacity of about 1(),0()(),-000 brick annually. In 1910 the plant commenced to makepressed brick and the demand for thismaterial increased so rapidly that themnufacture of common brick was cur-tailed and the management consentratedits efforts perfecting a high grade facebrick. That it has achieved success isevidenced by the continued growth of thecompany. The business in 1921, despitethe general building depression, was thelargest in the history of the plant. Thepresent a

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