William C. Allison & Sons, Junction Car Works & Flue Mill

Allgemeines

FirmennameWilliam C. Allison & Sons, Junction Car Works & Flue Mill
OrtssitzPhiladelphia (Penns.)
Straße31st Street
Art des UnternehmensFahrzeugfabrik
AnmerkungenAdresse (1874): Thirty-first and Walnut Streets; 1868: von Walnut bis Spruce streets; [Hexamer]: 32nd Street, Lehman Street, Walnut Street und Spruce Street, an der West Chester & Philadelphia Railroad. Inhaber (um 1875): W. C. Allison & Sons und "Allison Manufacturing Co." (1890). Baute insbesondere Güterzugwagen und stellte geschweißte und schmiedeeiserne Rohre her. Mit Modellwerkstatt, Hammerschmiede, 2 Lokomotiven, Dampfpumpen. Anzahl der Dampfmaschinen unbekannt (2 Maschinenräume auf dem Plan). Bei [Hexamer] mit dem Zusatz "Junction Car Works & Flue Mill".
Quellenangaben[Wiley: American iron trade manual (1874) 133] [Bishop: History of American manufacturers 3 (1868) 39] [Hexamer General Surveys, Plates 426+437+899-901+1655+2329-2330 (1870+1875+1882+1890)]




Unternehmensgeschichte

Zeit Ereignis
1862 Erbaut
05.1863 Das frühere Werk wird durch ein verheerendes Feuer vernichtet.
1870 Erweiterungsbauten
1874 Umgebaut 1873
1880 Bau der Montage- und Lackierwerkstätten an der Chestnut Street 1879
1884 Bau des Röhrenwerks




Produkte

Produkt ab Bem. bis Bem. Kommentar
Kamine 1874 [Wiley: American iron trade (1874)] 1874 [Wiley: American iron trade (1874)] Vorgabe: Flues
Rohre 1874 [Wiley: American iron trade (1874)] 1874 [Wiley: American iron trade (1874)] Vorgabe: Pipes
Rohre 1874 [Wiley: American iron trade (1874)] 1874 [Wiley: American iron trade (1874)] Vorgabe: Pipes
Wagen 1874 [Wiley: American iron trade (1874)] 1874 [Wiley: American iron trade (1874)] Vorgabe: Cars




Betriebene Dampfmaschinen

Bezeichnung Bauzeit Hersteller
Dampfmaschinen vor 1882 unbekannt
Dampfmaschine vor 1882 unbekannt
Dampfmaschine vor 1875 unbekannt
Dampfmaschinen vor 1875 unbekannt
Dampfmaschine vor 1875 unbekannt
Dampfmaschine vor 1875 unbekannt




Maschinelle Ausstattung

Zeit Objekt Anz. Betriebsteil Hersteller Kennwert Wert [...] Beschreibung Verwendung
1870 Dampfkessel 6   unbekannt          
1882 Dampfkessel 7   unbekannt          




Personal

Zeit gesamt Arbeiter Angest. Lehrl. Kommentar
1874 800        
1875 600       584 Männer, 15 Jungen, 1 Telegraphistin
1882 1150       25-30 Jungen, Rest Männer)
1890 1150       25-30 Jungen, der Rest Männer




Allgemeines

ZEIT1868
THEMAFirmenbeschreibung
TEXTAre the largest of the manufactories of Philadelphia located on the west side of the Schuylkill. They are new, having been erected since May, 1863, when the former works were destroyed in a most disastrous conflagration. As an illustration of what we believe to be the most, complete establishment that has as yet been erected in the United States for building cars, it will be appropriate to devote some space to the details of its construction. The works occupy an enclosure of about five acres of ground, situated between the West Chester and Junction railroads, and extending from Walnut to Spruce streets, in West Philadelphia. Nearly all of this extensive area is covered with buildings, generally of brick and stone, one and two stories in height. The greater portion of the building fronting on Walnut street is devoted to painting cars, the shop for the purpose being two hundred and fifty-nine feet long and eighty-one feet wide. Many of the workmen employed in this department are not merely good mechanical painters, but artists, whose productions, if on canvas, would be entitled to a place in a gallery of Fine Arts. On the second floor of this building are the varnishing rooms, and also a room eighty-one by forty feet used as an erecting shop for city passenger cars. Adjoining the building just mentioned is a fire-proof structure, the lower floor of which is appropriated to offices and counting-rooms, including a fire-proof safe, which is a small room in itself, being sixteen feet long by nine feet wide, and on the upper floor are the upholstering department, pattern rooms, and rooms for the storage of valuable material. All the doors and girders in this building are of iron, and the structure is believed to be indestructible by fire. The inner office is arranged with a view of facilitating the clerk who acts as time-keeper. All the workmen make their entrance and exit through one gateway, and each man, as he enters, receives a metallic number which he returns when he leaves the yard. By means of a spring the clerk in charge of the gateway can close it without leaving the office, and all workmen who come late are known and registered. A large space of ground between the painting and erecting shop is appropriated to the transfer table, over which is an arched bridge connecting the second stories of the two buildings. Beyond is the erecting shop, two hundred and forty feet in length, eighty feet wide, and where may be seen Cars in their various stages of progress, among them some of the first class, with raised roofs and facilities for ventilation, such as approach as near perfection as the art has as yet attained. Adjoining the erecting shops on the south, are the wood working shops, one for hard, another for soft lumber; and also the repair shop, the machine shop and engine room. The greater portion of the floor above these shops is appropriated to pattern and cabinet-making, for which it is equipped with all of the most approved tools and best machines. West of these buildings, and detached, are the blacksmith shops. In the bending room is a boiler in which wood is steamed preparatory to being bent into the various curvelinear and irregular forms desired. All of the rooms are heated in winter by means of steam pipes, of which there are about eight miles distributed in coils through the different apartments. The condensed water of all these pipes is brought back and collected, to be used again to supply the boilers. In this extensive establishment about three hundred men are employed, though doubtless nearly double the number, if needed, could operate without inconvenience, and it has a capacity for turning out every week three large passenger cars, ten street cars, and thirty freight cars, without interfering with the General Jobbing and Repairing.
QUELLE[Bishop: History of American manufacturers 3 (1868) 39]