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	Environmental History :: Republic Steel
		Republic Steel began as an outgrowth of the Grand Crossing Tack Company, and was originally located in 1876 at 79th and Stony Island Avenue in an area known as Grand Crossing.
		In 1984, Republic Steel was merged with J and L Steel to form LTV Steel, a wholly owned subsidiary of the LTV Corporation, a Dallas based conglomerate which is also involved in energy, aerospace, and defense.
		Pressed Steel Car Company received an award for their excellent job in producing tanks on September, 1942.
	www.neiu.edu /~reseller/ehpg9repst.htm (437 words)

	Pressed Steel Strike
		Pressed Steel Car Works, McKees Rocks, PA A meeting at Indian mound.
		The strikers held their meetings in the open on this historic spot.
		Several thousand men took part and marched ahead of the hearses containing bodies of strikers killed in battle of Aug. 22, 1909.
	www.library.pitt.edu /labor_legacy/PressedSteelStrike.htm (94 words)

	Bethlehem Steel Corporation : Bethlehem Steel Company
		It became the Bethlehem Steel Company in 1899, then in 1904 Charles M. Schwab[?] (recently resigned from US Steel) formed the Bethlehem Steel Corporation and became its first president and chairman of the board of directors.
		He acquired a number of additional steel plants in the 1920s, and Bethlehem produced the steel for many of the country's landmarks, including the Golden Gate Bridge, Rockefeller Center, and Madison Square Garden.
		But at the same time cheaper foreign steel started appearing on the market, and by 1982 Bethlehem reported a loss of US$1.5 billion and was forced to shut down many of its operations.
	www.termsdefined.net /be/bethlehem-steel-company.html (515 words)

	Standard Steel Car Company (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
		But the merged company was quickly taken over by financial people unfamiliar with railroading, and Brady resigned his position with Pressed Steel and sold his interest in the company in the fall of 1901.
		Much earlier, and the steel car would not yet have reached the point of being widely saleable, and much later and much of the machinery and methods for making steel cars might have been patented, and thus more costly.
		Pressed Steel and others “first into the water,” so-to-speak, had to design and develop machinery which then needed improvement and replacement as new techniques were developed.
	www.ironhorse129.com /rollingstock/builders/standard_steel.htm (1532 words)

	General - bizjournals.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
		Pressed Steel Tank Co. Inc. has yet to secure all of the financing needed for its planned move from West Allis to Tower Automotive's manufacturing complex on Milwaukee's north side.
		Pressed Steel's relocation from West Allis, as well as the future of the company, could be in jeopardy without the necessary financing, prompting company management to file a mass layoff notice with the state indicating that it could permanently cut 37 jobs at the West Allis site.
		The company is "facing unforeseen business circumstances that have occurred while it has been in the midst of seeking financing that it reasonably believed it would receive to relocate and keep the business operational," according to a notice the company filed Aug. 29 with the Wisconsin Department of Workforce Development, Madison.
	www.bizjournals.com /industries/manufacturing/general/2005/09/12/milwaukee_story4.html (659 words)

	Steel Cars for the Newark Extension of the Hudson Tunnels (1911) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
		Beyond Manhattan Transfer a two-track steel elevated structure is being built through Harrison, over a new bridge across the Passaic River, and through Newark to a new terminal station, near Market and Broad Streets, in the center of the city.
		Pieces of steel tubing are used for the end frames of the truck.
		The transom is made of pressed steel in one piece and surrounds the bolster.
	www.nycsubway.org /nyc/path/path-1911cars.html (1197 words)

	MSN Encarta - Pittsburgh
		The greatest losses were in steel, with the elimination of over 100,000 steel and steel-related jobs between 1978 and 1983.
		In the 1870s Andrew Carnegie pioneered the integrated steel mill (a mill that has all the material and equipment needed to produce steel from ore), and Pittsburgh became the world’s leading steel producer.
		Several major strikes occurred in the second half of the 19th century, the most severe of which were the 1877 railroad strike and the 1892 Homestead Strike.
	encarta.msn.com /encyclopedia_761566926_2/Pittsburgh.html (1718 words)

	JS Online: Pressed Steel plans to relocate, freeing up site for redevelopment
		The move is contingent on the company resolving its dispute with West Allis officials, who had threatened to raze Pressed Steel's century-old industrial complex.
		The company would move to a 100,000-square-foot building to be constructed south of W. Good Hope Road and east of N. 68th St., under a proposal approved Monday by the Milwaukee Plan Commission.
		Pressed Steel, 1445 S. 66th St., hopes to move to the building by the end of the year, company President Robert Darling said.
	www.jsonline.com /bym/news/jun04/235032.asp (619 words)

	SwindonWeb - Swindon's Heritage - Car Industry - Swindon Pressings - Pressed Steel Fisher - Honda - BMW
		Although Pressed Steel was able to draw upon the town's exisiting pool of skilled labour - especially as wages were higher than in the declining railway factory on the other side of town - most of its Swindon workforce were Londoners, in keeping with the overspill plan.
		Swindon had become the proverbial boom town and Pressed Steel's workers were also part of a thriving British car industry that was part of a slow-growing prosperity in the 1950s and 1960s.
		While Honda blossomed in Swindon and Swindon blossomed thanks to Honda, workers at the old Pressed Steel plant might have been excused for being less optimism about their own futures again as Rover was bought by BMW and then quickly sold again.
	www.swindonweb.com /guid/hericar.htm (2489 words)

	New Steel Cars for the New York, Westchester, & Boston Railway (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
		The units are pressed and flanged in one piece from 1/4-in.
		These pressed units when secured in place form a continuous truss of the height of the car side and combine great strength with moderate weight.
		The cross bearers and bolsters are of the built-up type and are formed of pressed diaphragms and cover plates.
	www.nycsubway.org /us/nywb/nywb3.html (3525 words)

	Encyclopedia of Labor History Worldwide—William Arthur Atkins (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
		Strain between strikers (and their allies in the International Workers of the World) and the company (along with its replacement workers and state police forces) erupted in a riot on 22 August 1909.
		Within a few years in the steel mills of Pittsburgh the Slavic employees were considered strong, willing workers, and were generally viewed by the steel management as some of the best workers available.
		They also were involved in some of the worst accidents in the steel mills because of the strenuous and dangerous work that they often performed.
	users.galesburg.net /~atkins/mckees.html (1824 words)

	Job Shop Technology Online
		Boehm, an ISO 9001: 2000-certified stamping company, has proven to be particularly adept at redesigning and converting previously cast, molded, or machined parts into less expensive, precision stampings that maintain the close tolerances of the original part.
		The company made waves recently when it replaced an expensive casting, previously manufactured in China, with a stamped assembly that saved tooling costs, reduced piece price and turnaround time, and eliminated the need for secondary operations.
		The company uses equipment that incorporates the most current feed and electronic transfer technologies, and can adapt to tooling requirements ranging from prototyping to progressive tooling and high-volume transfer tooling.
	www.jobshoptechnology.com /news/tech0406/china.shtml (703 words)

	Short STORIES OF INTERESTING EXHIBITS
		The instant the pencil is pressed upon the writing surface electrical connection is made and the pen at the receiver is drawn down to the paper.
		It is called manganese steel, and is a union of iron and manganese, an ore found chiefly in the Caucasus mountains and Spain, with some silicon and carbon.
		First, pressed steel bolsters were made for trucks, then entire pressed steel trucks, then the underframing of the car and finally the body of the car itself.
	panam1901.bfn.org /documents/worldsworkdoc.html (12533 words)

	Pressed Steel agrees to move - 2003-12-15
		Pressed Steel recently approached the city seeking assistance in redeveloping the property, said John Stibal, West Allis development director.
		Pressed Steel Tank president Robert Darling said the company is looking to move its operations and sell the property.
		The city and Pressed Steel Tank issued a joint request for proposals for the purchase and development of all or part of the Pressed Steel Tank property located along South 66th Street between West National and West Greenfield avenues on the city's east side.
	milwaukee.bizjournals.com /milwaukee/stories/2003/12/15/story2.html (680 words)

	Pressed Steel Tank sues city of West Allis - 2003-01-10
		Pressed Steel Tank Co. is suing the city of West Allis and has obtained a temporary restraining order in Milwaukee County Circuit Court to block the demolition of its 266,000-square-foot plant at 1445 S. 66th St.
		The city of West Allis served the company with an order Dec. 15 giving Pressed Steel 30 days to raze the 100-year-old plant and return the premises to a "dust-free and erosion-free condition." Some city officials have deemed the property an eyesore and claim it's hindering redevelopment efforts on the city's east side.
		Pressed Steel also argues in the complaint that the property isn't dangerous, unsanitary or unfit for human habitation, as the city has claimed.
	milwaukee.bizjournals.com /milwaukee/stories/2003/01/06/daily57.html (598 words)

	New York City Subway rolling stock - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Old cars, some from the original companies (IRT and BMT), are preserved at the New York Transit Museum, while others have been sold to private individuals.
		Between 1985 and 1989 some of the IRT trains were painted red, giving them the name Redbirds.
		All cars R32 and after are stainless steel.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/New_York_City_Subway_rolling_stock (773 words)

	Light cars from Cowley
		The Pressed Steel plant was built as the result of a visit William Morris had made to the Edwards G Budd Manufacturing Company of Philadelphia in the USA this was in 1925.
		The Pressed Steel Company was a joint venture between Morris, Budd and a merchant bank and was established to produce all steel bodies for the British motor industry.
		The Pressed Steel Company and the British Motor Corporation merged in 1965, thus making both plants part of the same organisation for the first time.
	www.lightauto.com /cowley.html (1286 words)

	Pressed Steel strikes back - 2003-01-20 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
		Pressed Steel Tank Co. has gone to court to block demolition of its West Allis factory and is suing city officials for damages the company claims it incurred as a result of city actions.
		Pressed Steel, a privately held company that has operated in West Allis for nearly 100 years, seeks unspecified punitive damages, as well as a permanent injunction to prevent the city from razing its plant.
		Employees of the company, meanwhile, are concerned about the prospect of losing their jobs, said Doug Drake, staff representative for the United Steelworkers Local 1569, which represents about 100 hourly employees at the plant.
	www.bizjournals.com /milwaukee/stories/2003/01/20/story5.html (737 words)

	docwillard.html
		As you know the Steel Companies have pursued policies hostile to the organized labor movement and have done everything possible to prevent organization among their workers.
		It is a matter of common knowledge and Congressional record that in the steel industries of Pennsylvania and around Pittsburg, the groups of foreign workers were kept isolated so that there could be the least possible communication and intercourse.
		No effort was made to Americanize them; on the contrary, the companies did everything within their power to prevent the greatest agency which has proved its effectiveness in Americanizing foreign workers from operating in that field.
	www.history.umd.edu /Gompers/docwillard.html (554 words)

	Higgins Armory Museum - About the Museum: Our Founder (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
		Milton Higgins was affiliated with Worcester Polytechnic Institute, a founder and president of Norton Company, as well as the father of the modern trade school movement in the U.S. Except for one year in Atlanta, Higgins was schooled in Worcester.
		At this time Higgins' realized that he needed a facility in which to house his growing collection, and he begun to conceptualize a museum that would serve as a temple to the art of metalworking, where exhibits of all qualities would be available for hands-on analysis and comparison.
		When his dream was finally realized in 1931, Higgins' "Steel Museum" was housed along with Worcester Pressed Steel offices in a new, state-of-the-art, glass and steel curtain wall building.
	www.higgins.org /About/founder.shtml (844 words)

	UP #7801 Hopper Car (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
		The all-steel welded car is 46'2" long over couplers, 10'8" high, has a 42'8" inside length, 10'0" inside width, and 2,810 cu ft of level cargo capacity.
		Numbered SWPC #34 and later SWPC #101, it was used as a ballast hopper at the cement plant, and on SWPC's 15-mile Mojave Northern Railroad to its quarry in the mountains, acquiring a thick coat of gray cement dust.
		It was trucked to Fallbrook, CA, and loaned to the Mitchell Company as a ballast hopper in rebuilding trackage on the Naval Weapons Station Annex.
	sdrm.org /roster/freight/hopp7801 (488 words)

	JS Online: Pressed Steel told it has to raze complex in West Allis
		Pressed Steel declined to comment through its public relations firm Tuesday, saying its lawyers are still reviewing the documents.
		Pressed Steel, founded in 1902, manufactures seamless and welded tanks out of steel for compressed gas.
		The Six Points project, whose boundaries were later redrawn to exclude the Pressed Steel property, is the most extensive redevelopment plan ever undertaken by West Allis, according to city officials.
	www.jsonline.com /news/Metro/jan03/108961.asp (461 words)

	Ambridge Strike
		The Steel and Metal Workers Industrial Union (S.M.W.I.U.), part of the communist-led Trade Union Unity League or T.U.U.L., represented an attempt at organizing workers on an industrial basis in steel and other industries, prior to the formation of the C.I.O. Its impact was greatest around 1933.
		Blaming the AA for having sold out the workers during and following the 1919 Steel Strike, the Sheet and Metal Workers Union sought to contrast its effectiveness in tapping rank and file militancy with the ineffectiveness of the AA.
		In the Summer of 1933, the Steel and Metal Worker, boasted that the organization had achieved significant inroads in the Pittsburgh region: Three large locals had been organized in Ambridge.
	www.library.pitt.edu /labor_legacy/SMWIU.htm (435 words)

	A Catalogue of the Papers of the Pressed Steel Fisher Division (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
		The shells of the Silver Shadow (a car made by Rolls Royce) were produced by Pressed Steel Fisher of Cowley, who had provided all the standard steel body shells since 1946.
		Text of chairman's speech to the Annual General Meeting, 1955-1957; annual reports and accounts for 1954, 1955, 1956; Pressed Steel Fisher (Cowley) Sports and Social Club: Monthly programme booklet, 1978; Fisher and Ludlow (1920) Ltd., Birmingham: original Memorandum and Articles of Association, 1920, with subsequent revisions, 1921-61; Pressed Steel Company (of Gt.
		Authority records exist for Pressed Steel Fisher (GB 0152 AAR2325) Pressed Steel Company Ltd. (GB 0152 AAR2324).
	www.warwick.ac.uk /services/library/mrc/ead/226ps.htm (395 words)

	Pressed Steel Tank Company
		When the company was established back in 1902 it was for the purpose of manufacturing acetylene cylinders for automobile head lamps.
		We sell literally thousands of these shells to other companies who complete the welding process to make their own containers, and then some of these shells are used for other purposes as well.
		Matter of fact, our company was intimately involved in development of the data that got Tenaxol on the approved quenchant list for compressed gas cylinder manufacture.
	www.tenaxol.com /pressedsteel.htm (1430 words)

	Fill Express -- Cylinder Valves and Regulator Fittings -- A Very Brief Overview
		When Pressed Steel Tank Company began manufacturing the modern 3500 psi service pressure SCUBA cylinder, they elected to use a more modern thread form for the neck opening known as Unified National Standard Fine.
		Until recently, it worked as follows: "High-Pressure" steel SCUBA cylinders (i.e., 3500 psi) were manufactured with the smaller 7/8 UNF threaded openings, and all other steel and aluminum SCUBA Tanks were manufactured with larger 3/4 NPS threaded openings.
		Then in 2003, Pressed Steel Tank Company introduced their new high-pressure 3442 psi E-series cylinders, and they elected to revert to the 3/4 NPS threaded opening.
	www.fillexpress.com /library/valves.shtml (1417 words)

	Pressed Steel Tank to cut workers, operations - 2003-08-06 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
		Pressed Steel Tank Co. Inc. plans to permanently lay off 51 employees, or nearly half of its work force, as it cuts back on operations and inventory.
		The company, which produces tanks for pressurized gases, is eliminating its compressed natural gas product line, a major business segment for the company, along with its acetylene tank products, said human resources manager Scarlett Parker in a phone interview.
		Pressed Steel Tank will notify the state when additional layoffs, if any, will be made.
	www.bizjournals.com /milwaukee/stories/2003/08/04/daily19.html (545 words)

	Buddy K Toys Specializing in Buddy L and Pressed Steel Toys
		The company was founded in 1910 by Fred A Lundhal and originally manufactured automobile fenders and other stamped auto body parts for the automobile industry.
		The company primarily supplied parts for the McCormack-Deering line of farm implements and the International Harvester Company for its trucks.
		He designed and produced an all-steel miniature truck, reportedly a model of an International Harvester truck made from 18 and 20 guage steel which had been discarded to the company's scrap pile.
	www.buddyktoys.com (911 words)

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