The literary digest . s has been music for a quarter of a century. Such aman as, grown too old for active work, begged to be allowed tostay in the shops as a watchman, because the thunder of noiseand the bursts of live sparks were part of his life. He stayed. Men who have grown up and grown old in the Billings &Spencer tradition that into every forging goes our wholereputation. Men to whom steel is a living and breathing thing, withhuman faults or virtues, who could not work if they were notallowed steel worthy of their craftsmanship. Men to whomgreat machines are as their own fingertips—^who


The literary digest . s has been music for a quarter of a century. Such aman as, grown too old for active work, begged to be allowed tostay in the shops as a watchman, because the thunder of noiseand the bursts of live sparks were part of his life. He stayed. Men who have grown up and grown old in the Billings &Spencer tradition that into every forging goes our wholereputation. Men to whom steel is a living and breathing thing, withhuman faults or virtues, who could not work if they were notallowed steel worthy of their craftsmanship. Men to whomgreat machines are as their own fingertips—^who constantlyplan for better work, to whom the improvement of a singlescrew is an epoch of accomplishment. Men who think only of the product—^who send out theirforgings into the world of industry as a father sends out hissons—giving them the best there is in themselves. Just men. And that is the only difference between forgings, the onlydifference between this tool and that, the only differencebetween ) 1919 B. & S. Co. Hartford The First Commercial Drop Forefln^ Plant in AmericaDtod Forging i Hand Tools ^11 Ill * lMimlMl«»«mNi™mm^^^MlKimCT^^gmilMi»mllilwmiiaMllm««iaiaiiuimiJil,lllll!iMMM«inimimiii «M«U«UM,IMmiMIIM«IIHIII».ii»imiJllM;UlllllllTrTllimil?L«


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