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The Cockshutt Plow Company Ltd.
| Firmenname | The Cockshutt Plow Company Ltd. |
| Ortssitz | Brantford (Kanada) |
| Art des Unternehmens | Maschinenfabrik |
| Quellenangaben | [Profiles of Brant County companies, banks, societies, & churches (1883) Internet] |
| Zeit |
Ereignis |
| 1877 |
Gegündet durch James G. Cockshutt unter der Firma "Brantford Plow Works". Das Originalgebäude ist 60 x 40' groß und hat drei Stockwerke. |
| 1878 |
Es wird eine Gießerei hinzugefügt. |
| 1879 |
Bau eines Maschinenraums |
| 1880 |
Bau einer neuen Gießerei. Die alte wird in eine Schmiede umgewandelt. |
| 1881 |
Bau eines Kesselraums |
| 1882 |
Errichtung eines neuen Hauptgebäudes (40 x 60') |
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Kommentar |
| Kultivatoren |
1877 |
Beginn |
1883 |
[Profiles von Brant County (1883)] |
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| Pflüge |
1877 |
Beginn |
1883 |
[Profiles von Brant County (1883)] |
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| ZEIT | 1883 |
| THEMA | Firmenbeschreibung |
| TEXT | The Cockshutt Plow Company (Limited) is the name of one of the most important industrial establishments in central Ontario. It was started in the year 1877 by James G. Cockshutt, and called the Brantford Plow Works. The original building was sixty by forty feet, and three stories high: in 1878 a foundry was added, and the year following a machine room. In 1880 a new foundry was erected, and the old one converted into a blacksmith shop; a boiler room was put up in 1881, and in 1882 a new main building fifty by sixty feet and three stories high, was built. >From the foregoing record of advancement the reader can judge of the thrift of this enterprise. These shops are full of new and improved machinery and tools, for the production of the various implements for which the owners are widely celebrated. The attention of this firm is devoted to the manufacture of six varieties of farm machinery, namely: plows, gang-plows, sulky-plows, cultivators, rollers and corn-planters. The patents covering what is known as the "Scientific Iron Plow Beam" and "Diamond-Point Cultivator" are held by this house, thus enabling it to put into market some of the best and most practical devices that modern ingenuity has offered as an abridgment to the labours of the husbandman. It is believed that this establishment is the most extensive plow factory in the Dominion of Canada; if not, it certainly ranks among the very first in point of capacity, product and good management. the opening of the new North-West has already given an impetus to several industrial enterprises here in Brantford, but none perhaps have better prospects in that new field than the Cockshutt Plow Company. There are at present employed about fifty men, in all departments, of skilled and common labour. The motive power is steam, rating as equal to that of forty horses, while the annual consumption of materials adds an important item to the carrying trade of the city. |
| QUELLE | [Profiles of Brant County companies, banks, societies, & churches (1883) Internet] |
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