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Title: Canadian foundryman (1921)
Year: 1921 (1920s)
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Subjects: Foundries Foundry workers
Publisher: Toronto : MacLean Pub. Co
Contributing Library: Fisher - University of Toronto
Digitizing Sponsor: University of Toronto

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good pointsbut are expensive and harder to work, al-though more durable. One Of Canadas Numerous New Foundries Built in the Most Up-to-Date Fashion From the Most Approved Material and Equipped With Everything of the Best is the New Plant Brockville, Ont. m By our own Representative OUR representative had the pleasure,recently, of calling on Machinery andFoundries, Limited, of Brockville,who have just completed the erection of afoundry and machine shop. Both buildingsare of most modern fire-proof construction,being built of reinforced concrete, includingthe roof on which is an asbestos roof cover-ing. Steel sash were used throughout. The foundry building is of monitor construc-tion and measures 160 x 60; the monitorventilators being operated by controls.The machine shop building included- inwhich is pattern shop, stock and shippingdepartments, measures 275 x 55. The welfare of the employees has beenconsidered in the erection of a special build-ing adjoining to be used as a lavatory in-
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NEW PLANT OF MACHINERY AND FOUNDRIES, BROCKVILLE. ONT. NOTE THE HEIGHT OF FOUNDRY MACHINE SHOP. COMPARED WITH THE 40 CANADIAN FOUNDRYMAN Volume XII eluding shower baths. Both buildings aresteam heated. They purpose specializingin the production of grey iron and brasscastings of high quality for machining pur-poses, and are especially equipped for turn-ing out large quantities of small and mediumsize, capacity of foundry being 10 to 15tons per day. They are placing on themarket a full lineof cistern and deep well pumps, including thewell known double acting or Red Wingforce pumps for which there is a largedomestic and export demand, also cast ironhardware of all descriptions, hollowware,grinders, etc. The personnel of the company are J. GillGardner, president; C. M. Rudel, vice-president; W. McLeod Gardner, man. dir.;George E. Purkis, secy.-treas.; Hon. Geo.P. Graham, director; L. J. Belnap, director.The president, managing director, andsecretary-treasurer are experienced foundrymen ha

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