Atlas Foundry was giving over 100 Purchasing Agent's Association members a tour of their facilities. The tour would show the complete cycle machinery manufacturing and producing goes through. It started in the drawing room, followed by the pattern shop, brass foundry, steel foundry, cleaning department, sand laboratory and ended with the finished product. View of men looking at finished machinery pieces (T. Times, 2/19/47, p. 7).
Permanente Metals would produce 40 million pounds of aluminum per year. The company sells a million and a half pounds of finished aluminum sheets per year o many U. S. firms. Permanente Metals had their headquarters in Oakland, California, Henry Kaiser was the President. View of laborers stacking up pigs, alloyed metals that have been cast into individual ignots (T. Times, 2/12/47, p. 5).
New machinery, TAM Engineering Corporation. Interior of Ford engine rebuilding shop. Workman measures cylinder bore of Ford "flathead" V8 engine block attached to a honing machine during rebuilding.
Machine shops--Tacoma; TAM Engineering Corp. (Tacoma);
Dravis Engineering and Machine Works was formerly Hicks-Bull Machine Company, Incorporated; the company was originall established in 1912. Dravis had licensed mechanical engineers and specialized in engineering, surveying, marine and general machinery manufacturing and repairs. The Dravis Company was owned by Frederick and Virginia Dravis; they were located at 1101-07 Dock Street. View of unidentified man demonstrating the use of a newly manufactured machine.
Machinery industry--Tacoma; Machinery; Equipment; Business enterprises--Tacoma; Dravis Engineering & Machine Works (Tacoma);
Northwest Syndicate Inc. was an electrical equipment manufacturing company located at 1321 A Street in downtown Tacoma. George F. Russell was the company's President and Julius W. Mann was the Vice-President. View of men looking at a 15 foot long by 5 foot high machine at Northwest Syndicate Inc. facilities; photo ordered by B. F. Goodrich Company in Seattle, Washington.
Machinery; Machinery industry--Tacoma--1940-1950; Industrial facilities--Tacoma; Laborers--Tacoma; Northwest Syndicate, Inc. (Tacoma);
Shartle Brothers Machinery. A specialized form seen from one side, the form decreases in size from the top to a cylinder at the lower edge of the floor. Pulleys are seen on the left and a hose is connected to the form on the right.
New machinery at Titus Manufacturing Company, Mr. Leon Titus. A young workman is steam cleaning the bare block of a Ford "flathead" V8 engine at Titus Manufacturing Company engine rebuilding shop.
Truck hauling large machine, designed and manufactured by I. W. Johnson Engineering Company. The machine is possibly a wood chipping machine or a log debarking machine, Northwest Machine Works building in background. I. W. Johnson machines could be found in the lumber mills and plants throughout Tacoma and other Pacific Northwest towns and cities, the machines were custom built to fit your company's needs.
Machinery industry--Tacoma--1940-1950; Machinery; Trucks--Tacoma--1940-1950; Engineering--Tacoma; Industrial facilities--Tacoma; I.W. Johnson Engineering Co. (Tacoma); Northwest Machine Works (Tacoma);
Globe Machine Company manufactured modern machines for Western Washington. Jesse Bamford was the President and Calvin D. Bamford was the Secretary-Treasurer of the company. View of machinery designed and manufactured by Globe.
Studio set-up of hydraulic shear testing machine. Ordered by Globe Machine, Mr. Sutton. Globe Machine manufactured veneer, plywood and woodworking machinery. They were located at 301 East 11th Street. Calvin D. Bamford was president, Stuart Bryan was vice president, secretary and treasurer for the company at this time.
Two Ford automobile engines are on display in the administrative area of TAM Engineering Corporation. Three people are seen at work in the common work area separated from the shop at the other end of the building. One of the company's executives is seen in a private office with a glass window into the common area. James N. Cutler was manager of the authorized Ford engine reconditioning facility.
Machine shops--Tacoma; TAM Engineering Corp. (Tacoma); Offices--Tacoma--1950-1960; Desks; Office workers--Tacoma--1950-1960;
Large pieces of machinery manufactured by Star Iron & Steel. Cylindrical in shape, possibly a drum of some sort. Photographed on April 9, 1970. Photograph ordered by Star Iron & Steel, Tacoma.
Two unidentified men gaze at giant wheel constructed at Coast Iron & Machine Works, 1117 Dock St., in August of 1924. The machinery firm was operated by J.A. McRae and R.C.McRae. G35.1-088
