New Britain Herald Newspaper, April 3, 1924, Page 20

STINLE TO0LS ARE THE WORL'S T00(S Compreheasive Line Made Here - Sell on Their Merits During the past summer a Britain Herald man ma« the Pennsylvania doal e @t first hand the coal = stopped en route at New Ye deiphia, Reading, Pottsville or more less smalier towne and villages town or city large eno of a hardware store h Britain-r commoditics. One of the most striking evide of. New Britaln's importar Industrial worid was the fa noticed wherever he went, fro class hardware jobbers 1o back street hock shops and that was the po larity and general demand for Stani tools, The manufacture of tools bega 75 years » when sstus Stanley, T. onklin and Gad Stanlcy organized A, Stanley & Company in 1550 for the purpose o making boxwood and i business, although starting in a place in the North & Staniey which later hecame a American Hardware successfu! and speedily grew to w 1t manufactured products of a much wider scope mining In every to boast >und New part - of Brist 1858 the ated with the Hall & ler the name of the Star and Level Co. No ope of the origi organizers is living today, The 1 firm did business on a portion of its present site, and the consolidation at that time imvluded the try.-square and hevelsmaking business and the manu- facture ‘of plumbs and ley owned by Hill & Crum of Unionville A short time Jater the tool handle business on Arch street, owned by Augustus and John Stanicy was ab. (sorbed. The handle business alone, even at that time assumed enormons proportions and all tha hickory with in a radious of 50 miles was pur ehased, Many of the logs were hauled to the plant by 1862 the rule manufasturing business owy ed by C, L. Mead and known as the “F. A. Stearng (o, of Brattleboro Vi, was purchased and Mr. Mead be came treasurer of the Stanley Rule and Level Co, What skoting rink in the norld was opened in Strieklamd hall on the present site of the old Elihu Burritt and skates were made b $the Stanley Rule and Level o, A grest variety of steel, frory wonden products, both nre and for tovs, eheek e pistols, firing wooden projestiled, mateh boxes, furniture Anobs, casters, o1a, wers added to the Tine in the years immediately follow ing the Civil War, One of the els, cattie teams. 1 said to he the first roller chonl and of g useful v ors, o toy most importunt meses was made In 1585 when the Bailey plane business owned hy Leonard Pailey of Boston, was purehased and Balley planes today are carricd as a #eparate line, In 1T the company tory in Canada: in the John & I'mv (o, and added ta itz line 6f Lit bras tool handies Prior 1o thig In the 1. & Tool (%, of Plapteville was purchaged und the mannfacture of screw drivers war included among the eom ducts, The making of SquarcE was when the Bhaftshury purelosed In 1913 the Atha of New ark, N. 1. was taken bver and a of hammers. anvi railrond track “ools, wcdgem efe. added st of other articles have been kinds or's tools, e, breast planes of an ariety, chiscln, mitre boxes y'8p carpenter's steol red in July, 1918 Bquare Mg Co., of Tool (o, Tine tools was of earp I1Mi1s RImost Inconceivable Bits, serew Qne of its most outstanding products being the No i combinatlon plane, which is adapted to become at short notice a lado ralhet, filletster AN mateh wvlane, beading and center beading, war slitey 1 moulding work, being a lancing mill " iteeir,” and outiers The plant is growing contin A five sory warchouse having bullt in 1924, an additional bul being erected and three new being added to the In March, 1920 n il ond Level <o, officially passed ogt of drivers, ote, veritable containe 93 standard lng xist the Stan Stapley the Btanley manufacturing plant for Works, and today as the nie and Level department of, Works, it is the leading carpenter’s ule any Level branch Works today is under nagement of Philip sident of the Stanley of the Stanley Rule James M. Bur- lent of aill and Max- Harris J. of the New Level divisic oe is assistant. rintendent t SUNNEVER SETS ON PRODUCTS OF S. V. Stanley Works Goeds in Every Hardware Store in World the particularly of the ex- An idea of the enormity of Works can ¥ the fact that officials ot there in the entire world in are is not a products of the Stanley Works not on sale. This is truly remarkable when it is considercd that the manufacturing concern of valued at $12,500,- 000 Wwith its 5,500 empioyes, occupy- ing 75 acres of floor space and turn- iug out more than 3,000 different are ticles of manufacture, is - the out- growth of a plant started in 1843 by the late ¥°. T. Stanley with an old , less than 50 employes ual output valued at less than llustrative of the worldwide mar- ket enjoyed by the an anecdute told by Chairman E, Al- len Moore of the Lagrd of directors upon his return from a recent trip to the Orient. Mr, Moore had stepped ints one of the hardware stores and inquired for a “Stanley hinge.,” The rk shrugged shoulders and made it apparent that he was at a ss to what the prospective purchaser sought. Mr, Moore than traced with his fnger on the glass top of the show case, & heart in the conter of which was inseribed the letters *8, W.”, the trade.mark of the Works. In less than a min- full line of the New Britain hardwabe w being dis- uyed for sale, An interesting tey Worka is that a majority of the employas are stockholders ia the eon an attractive stock purchasing ing been evolved oy *he of know Stanley ute a factory's feature of the Star corr, plar The first Stanley Works factory was but a few hundred feet from the pree ent main plant. 1t was poor'y equip ped and manufacturing methads wer erude, As the years went on and bua ness inereased the roncern spread ou until it bhas #cores of bullding and its working staft has multiplies many times, In the offies alone, ther: are now more than 460 employes. £hould one follow a jlece of worl from the steel rolling milis throug Al the departmenta of the plant up to the completion of the finished pro. he wonld walk three-quarters of a’mile. “Tha steel rolling mills, hot afd cold, do work for the ordinary manufacturing nesds of the conerrn and for the general trade now Inet Ane both In . mills are.among the largest in the eountry The Stanley Works has hmnch face tories in Niles, Ohlo, and Bridgenater, Mass.: It maintaing residént sales of. flers in New ) Chieago, T Heattie, Wash.: Ca. und Low Ang Resident mar v located at Sydney, Aus tralia; nhay. Tndia; Tondon, Eng tand, and Montreal, Canada. 1. Misn Maors is ehalrman of the board of directors and Clarencs ¥ Tiennett 18 president of the eoncern Following Are tha tlee.presidents James E. Cooper, J. E, Ktone, P, B Emnter, W, 17, Hart and Malesim armer, Other officers are: £ W Christ, weerstary: Louls W. Toung treasurer P. V. King and M H Praee, assistant sscretaries R B Pritehard and J. W. Wiibur, aseletant treasurors K elty Han Franciseo, ru, Cal ngers a A% & Notarian it 1s my duty to tm- f, inerease my afficlency large my serviea, and by so attest my falth in the funda prineiple of Rotary. that he profits most who serves best.—From the Rotary code of ethice. prove tyse 178 Main Street This Bank will be pleased to have you call, If you leave a deposit with us it will receive good care and 11,% interest upon it. Savings Bank of New Britain Resources $16.264,563.14 it having consolideted with ! anley Works is - NoW BRITAIN DALY HuRALY, 1HURBUAY, APial 3, 1vzd. BUILDERS HARDWARE s i and lock dealers ‘ied™with one another in securivg the products of the concern. MEANS R. & E. GOODS Conoern Starting With $125,000 - Becomes Giant of Industry . zrpet ves s any building. With the determinat the lines 00 and then to $1.0 Erwin Mfg. Co. from its eariy incep- | tiou was the bopor ‘and integrity of its management. The cooperation of its owners with the employes has long been the envy of many-other whose suce hus not been equal to the New Britain coneer To New Uritain, it 1 probabiy always be known as the “lock shop and everything connected with it will be ters under the eaption. but to the world through magnificent sales com tion, it is known as Rus. in, make of the best in the world. Erwin Mrg. Co establi to start tn t har concern e was or first s in the manufactur. are, As time gan to make I it embraees required for builders the ty of this as- n to increase Plate loc the company starteal in the ufacturing of wood screws and a brick building was erceted on Myrtle strect and with the purchase serew manufacturing ton, Russeil of the leading n rod history of plate locks could ne be told in complete detail unless the TR TN AT CAPITOL -:- Mon.—Tues.—Wed. ALICE. TERRY RAMON NOVARRO “Where the Pavement Ends” of the ssell & Erwin division | large of e Co. was a pioneer in what constitutes | of the most important lines in manufacture of hardware. The story of the growth of the concern is the simple story of a group of men wliose soul as well as their money and brains were put into their busi. American Hardware Corp. was it because Russell & Erwin became one turers of w try. hie Corbin- Screw Erwin nufac- e coun- ongs to the ons screws i nt now be Co. The biggest asset to the the first’ manufacturing b ss d on the pr site of th & Erwin Mfg. Co. was Stan- Woodruff & Co. The men 1in- te ed in this concern formed a partnership in 1 for the purpose of manufacturing plate locks, and at their business was one of t to be formed for the special mianufacture of that line. I, of the concern was 218,000 and with this money a lrick bullding, 32:34 fcet, was erected, this being used today as it was originall and being the oldest building in the Husseel) & Erwin group., A small business was conducted within this building for about t1 cars at the end of which time, changes began to occur in the personnel of the origina- tors. As the years went by, new mem. bers were added and old ones with- drew until in 1864, Henry E. Rus- sell and Cornelius PB. Erwin banded together and adopted the present firm name, “From the first, the work of thesa two men and their associates, spelled the word success, In 1850, finding that their sales were being interrupted frequently by other interes the Russell & Erwin concern bought the hardware busi- ness of North & Stanley, William H. Smith and others in New Britain and ' the Albany Argillo Works in Albany, N. T “HeProfits"MustWho Serves Best” The “Bank of Service” has moulded its -methods with that thought constantly in mind. Its ever increasing resources is the best proof that the Rotary mot- to, if applied, will bring results. TRUST CO VIWERTAIND o THE BANK OF SERVICE Open Saturday Evenings 7-9 The capital of the company was started at $125,000, the business was ' immediately prosperous. The eapital was increased to $200,000, then te Our Greetings to You Rotarians We are glad to see you in New Britain and hope we may be of service to you while you are in our midst. A commercial Bank for any financial need — our growth and prog- ress is the best argument why anyone should know, and become actively connected with the New Britain Trust Co. RGANIZED in 1860, this Bank has satisfactorily served for over sixty-three years the general bank- ing needs of an ever growing community. . Checking Accounts, Savings Accounts, Christmas Club, Vacation Club, Foreign Drafts and Money Orders, Travelers Checks, Safe Deposit Vault and Trust De- partment. New Britain National Bank ROTARIAN WILLIAM L. HATCH Suggests that you insure your automobile through his office. You couldn’t do better and you might do worse. The W. L. Hatch Co. City Hall Bldg. "Phone 3400 The largest agency in the city NEW-MAID PARKER-BUCKEY -M ] PLUMBING "HEATING SHEET METAL WORK A. A. MILLS 80 WEST MAIN ST. “A. 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