. Canadian foundryman (1921). the MasseyMfg, Co.; the plant at Brantford, form-erly known as the A. Harris & Son Co.,the Verity Plow Works at Brantford,and the Bain Wagon Works at Wood-stock. They also have a plant at Wes-ton and are connected with the Sawyer-Massey Works at Hamilton, Ont. All of the plants are strictly Cana-dian, having started on a small scale and worked up to their present enor-mous dimensions. The two big plants,the Toicn o and Brantford ones, wereboth started in small towns and grew upin oposition to each other until, wisdomdictated that in union was strength, andthat the
. Canadian foundryman (1921). the MasseyMfg, Co.; the plant at Brantford, form-erly known as the A. Harris & Son Co.,the Verity Plow Works at Brantford,and the Bain Wagon Works at Wood-stock. They also have a plant at Wes-ton and are connected with the Sawyer-Massey Works at Hamilton, Ont. All of the plants are strictly Cana-dian, having started on a small scale and worked up to their present enor-mous dimensions. The two big plants,the Toicn o and Brantford ones, wereboth started in small towns and grew upin oposition to each other until, wisdomdictated that in union was strength, andthat the farmer could be better servedby one organization. The Massey works was established atNewmarket, Ont., in the year 1847,while the Harris plant was establishedabout the same time at Beamsville, becoming of sufficient importanceto require the advantage of the city theymoved to the above mentioned cities andcontinued to grow year by year. Sometwenty-five years ago they were amal-gamated into the Massey-Harris Corn-. Looking down the gangway in cne room of foun-dry, Massey-Harris works, Toronto branch. pany, Limited, and {lave since rearrang-ed their work so that each plant is de-voted to a certain line of work. The illustration shown is the moldingdepartment of the Toronto plant. I amtaking it for granted that the readerunderstands that this company is strict-ly in the farm implement business, in allof their plants and to show an interiorview of one end of the molding shopThe reader will see that it is like look-ing down a street. Fire walls are builtat intervals, so that this view is only onesection of the floor. The view in frontof the spout will convey some idea ofhow the iron is delivered to the stream from the cupola would betoo much for even those molders whowork close to the cupola. The metal isrun into bogy ladles and shoved alongthe overhead trolley track to the most
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