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Hew Cizr Comnanv 2902-- Incorporated on January 27, 1902 with V, D. Sargent as its first president. 1903-----0. H, Cutler was elected president, succeeding Hr. Sargent. Purcruised McPherson Frog & Switch Company Of Niagara Falls and consolidated it with the Ramapo Iron Works at Eillbum. Acquired half-interest in Standard Brake Shoe Company. 1906TMOrganised Canadian ha iiipo Iron t'c-i'ha as a wholly owned 'Ub " ^ d T* Commenced manufacturing m .nganese steel at Chicago Heights plant. 1910----Acquired control of the Idgar Allen American Manganese Steel Company. Acquired Featherstone Foundry & Machine Company. 1911-----Acquired Columbia Brake Shoe Company. 1913-----Organized the Southern Wheel Company as a subsidiary of the ABS2F Co. 1915-----Organized Dominion Brake Shoe Company, Ltd. -7 ' 1916----Purchased the American Kalleables Comoany which became a subsidiary of ' ' the A3S&? Co. -* Organized Manganese Steel Bail Company. Beincorporated the company under the laws of Delaware. (Formerly a New Jersey corporation.) " V. G. Pearce was elected president, succeeding Mr. Cutler who became Chairman of the Board of Directors. Company had 22 plants in operation, including those of its domestic sub sidiaries . 1917-----Acquired business and assets of Vulcan Brake Shoe & Equipment Company. Acquired plants and assets of United States Brake Shoe Company. f 1918-----Organized the American Brake Shoe & Foundry Company of California to handle brake shoes and miscellaneous castings on the West Coast. 1919-----Organized and started the Southern Foundry & Machine Company with one plant at Chattanooga. This leased to an outside group. J. B. Terbell was elected President, succeeding Mr. Pearce who became Chairman of the Executive Committee. 1920----Organized American Forge Company under control of our company. Acquired plant and equipment of Colorado 3rake Shoe & Foundry Company. CM5ii a r* 4 922------Hamapo Ajax Corporation was organized with our company a controllin factor. 2923-----Acquired National Car Wheel Company which became part of Southern Wheel - Company. Acquired minority interest in Southern. Manganese Steel Company. 1924- Acquired Pittsburgh Brake Shoe Company. Acquired Pennsylvania Castings 1 Machine 'Works. -Acquired Elliot Frog & Switch Company which became a par Comoration ' of Hamapo Ajax 1926-----Formed American Brake Materials Corner; tion to manufacture American Drakeblok brake lining. Acquired New York Car Wheel Company of Indiana.. 1927----- Eamapo -Ajax Corporation acquired controlling interest in the Magnetic Signal Company. \ 1928---Formed the Bacor Pacific Frog a Switch Company. Acquired controlling interest in National Searing Metals Corporation of St. Louis. 1929-----W. B. Given, Jr. was elected president of the company, Hr. Terhell served as Board Chairman until his death. ' 1930----- Dissolved the Southern Manganese Steel Company. 1932----- Hamapo Ajax Corporation acquired controlling interest in the Manganese Steel Bail Company. 1936----- Dissolved American Malleables Company. Dissolved Southern Foundry & Machine Company. Dissolved Manganese Steel Hail Company. Southern Wheel became a Division of the company. 1937----- Dissolved Hamapo Ajax Corporation. Hamapo Ajax became a Division of the company. Formed American Manganese Steel Division- of the company. Formed American Brakeblok Division of the company. Formed American Forge Division of the comany. 1938--Dissolved the -American Brake Shoe & Foundry Company of California. Formed the Pacific Coast Division of the company. SPIM0185 1939-----Acquired Kellogg Manufacturing Company of Rochester, N. I. Formed the Kellogg Division of the company. Formed Brake Shoe & Castings Division of the company. Company had 47 plants in operation excluding 3 plants of its foreign sub sidiaries ana 8 plants of the national Bearing Corporation. 1940-----Acquired Great Lakes Forge Company of Chicago. This became part of Amforge Division for manufacture of drop forgings. 1911---- Dissolved Pacific Coast Division, merging it with 2SIC Division. 1943-----Acquired Crown Spray Gun Kfg. of i/Lvision. Acquired Electro-Alloys Corporation of Elyria, Ohio as a subsidiary for production of high nickel chromium alloys. Changed the nans of the company to American Brake Shoe Company. 1944-----Formed the National Bearing Division of the company. Famad the Electro-Alloys Division of the company. Completed construction of the Experimental Foundry at the Besearch Center in Kahwah, New Jersey. 1945-----Commenced extensive plant replacement program. 194c-----Acquired Joliette Steel, Ltd. in Joliette, Quebec, Canada which became a subsidiary for manufacture of manganese castings in Canada. Acquired Progressive Foundry Works, Inc. in Rochester, N. Y. Forced Engineered Castings Division from above. 1947---Completed plant replacement program. Dev Plants at Meadville, Pa. Miles, Ohio . Elyria, Ohio Meadow lands, Pa. Winchester, 7a. - Lindsay, Ontario, Canada Mew Chemical Research Laboratory at Research Center, Kahwah, Mew Jersey. 1948-----Acquired Morden Frog & Crossing Works in Chicago, Illinois. This became a part of Eamapo Ajax Division. 1949-----Acquired former-million dollar government plant in Buffalo which joined Bamapo Division. Ramapo closed its old plants in Hillbum, New York and Niagara Falls, Mew York. SPIM0186