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314: 385:. He took the risk of buying Studebaker despite the liabilities that came with it, including dealer warranties and union agreements. He saw that Onan generators and STP engine additives were healthy businesses. The large tax loss was also valuable. Worthington was expected to continue to earn steady profits, but could use the tax loss to avoid paying taxes. The stockholders of Studebaker and Worthington approved the merger despite rumors that the Federal Trade Commission considered the merger would be "substantially anti-competitive". Studebaker was acquired by Wagner Electric, which in turn was merged with Worthington Corporation to create Studebaker-Worthington. 326: 302: 270: 144: 229: 42: 262:
George F. Blake Manufacturing Company, an ISPC subsidiary, had liabilities that included $ 1 million of mortgage bonds and $ 500,000 of preferred stock of BKSPW. The ISPC 1904 Annual Report noted that BKSPW had been dissolved in 1903, replaced by a company with the same name based in New Jersey. An October 1908 description of the Blake-Knowles Steam Pump Works in
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In 1952 the company became the Worthington Corporation. As of 1956 the Worthington Corporation had laboratories in Harrison, Holyoke, and Buffalo. The labs employed five chemists, forty engineers, four mathematicians, four metallurgists, two physicists and thirty five others. They conducted research
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BKSPW had been registered in England in 1890 with a capital of £300,000 to purchase in full the George F. Blake Manufacturing Company and the Knowles Steam Pump Works, with three plants in the United States. In its 1901 Annual Report the ISPC reported holding £200,000 of ordinary shares in BKSPW. The
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learned of the Worthington company because of this order, and on 13 December 1885 signed an agreement with the Worthington Pumping Engine Company under which they gained exclusive manufacturing rights for Worthington pumps in Britain. The British company's pumps were sold in the English and Colonial
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to manufacture mining machinery. In 1906 it was merged into the ISPC. By 1909 the ISPC as a whole was employing 10,000 men. In May 1910 Benjamin Guggenheim reported strong results with net earnings of about $ 2 million and profits of about $ 700,000. The company had purchased the JeanesvilIe Iron
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was a member of a family that had made a fortune in the smelting business in the United States, largely through his efforts, and that controlled the American Smelting and Refining Company. Guggenheim founded the International Steam Pump Company (ISPC). The ISPC was organized by the
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and died on 15 April 1912 when the ship sank. The International Steam Pump Company went into receivership in 1914. A plan of reorganization was issued on 5 August 1915 and under this plan the firm was reorganized in 1916 as the Worthington Pump & Machinery Corporation.
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The ISPC merged Blake and Knowles Steam Pump Works, Ltd. (BKSPW), Worthington Pump Works and other companies that together made up a large part of total American capacity for making steam pumps. The company's products were diverse, including the elevators for the
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1903 the London-based James Simpson and Worthington Pumping Engine Company companies merged to become the Worthington Pump Co. The merger applied to the London-based Worthington Pumping Engine Company. The American parent remained independent.
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In 1885 the Worthington Pumping Engine Company, representatives of Worthington pumps of the US, obtained an order from the British Army to deliver ten high-pressure pumps to deliver water needed by the
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Works Company and had obtained a controlling interest in the Denver Rock Drill and Machinery Company, adding at least 30% to capacity. The Holly Manufacturing Company (1859–1912) was acquired in 1912.
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was a diversified American manufacturer that had its roots in Worthington and Baker, a steam pump manufacturer founded in 1845. In 1967 it merged with
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Chelsea to Cairo-- 'Taylor-made' Water Through Eleven Reigns and in Six Continents: A History of John Taylor & Sons and Their Predecessors
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The merger was completed in November 1967, creating a company with $ 550 million of assets. The former chairman of Worthington,
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From Steam to Diesel: Managerial Customs and Organizational Capabilities in the Twentieth-Century American Locomotive Industry
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and William H. Baker. Worthington was the inventor of the direct acting steam pump. The first foundry was near the
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Worthington and Baker, manufacturers of hydraulic machinery such as steam pumps and meters, was founded by
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McGraw-Edison purchased Studebaker-Worthington in 1978. McGraw-Edison was in turn acquired by
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The British pump suppliers could not deliver the pumps fast enough. The British company
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water, and water for fire fighting and general services aboard various ships during the
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Specimen 1909 $ 1,000 bond issued by the International Steam Pump Company of New Jersey
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1922 advertisement for mine pumps from the Worthington Pump and Machinery Corporation
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The Worthington Steam Pumping Engine: History of Its Invention and Development...
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The Worthington Pump and Machinery Corporation had subsidiaries in
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The History of Foreign Investment in the United States to 1914
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into hydrodynamics, thermodynamics, mechanics and materials.
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Worthington Pump and Machinery Corporation (1916–1952)
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Index

Worthington Steam Pump Company
Worthington Industries

Henry Rossiter Worthington
Studebaker-Worthington
Studebaker
Wagner Electric
Studebaker-Worthington
McGraw-Edison

Henry Rossiter Worthington
Henry R Worthington
Brooklyn Navy Yard
Brooklyn
United States Navy
bilge
American Civil War
USS Monitor
Charles Campbell Worthington
Harrison, New Jersey
British Expeditionary army
General Gordon
Khartoum
James Simpson & Co.

Benjamin Guggenheim
Benjamin Guggenheim
Seward
Lehman Brothers
Eiffel Tower

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