. mage was repaired. Thesame care is exercised at all times to see that the operating department has nohindrance in the production of goods, for with the immense trade and therapid increase in business the importance of employing the full productivecapacity is felt by all. The greatest need of P. & F. Corbin in 1902 was increased foundryfacilities to provide castings for the enlarged factory. Accordingly, onSeptember 9th, the directors empowered the management to build an ironfoundry, 60 x 400 feet, upon the Annex property on Stanley
. mage was repaired. Thesame care is exercised at all times to see that the operating department has nohindrance in the production of goods, for with the immense trade and therapid increase in business the importance of employing the full productivecapacity is felt by all. The greatest need of P. & F. Corbin in 1902 was increased foundryfacilities to provide castings for the enlarged factory. Accordingly, onSeptember 9th, the directors empowered the management to build an ironfoundry, 60 x 400 feet, upon the Annex property on Stanley Street. Thework was pushed with all the speed possible and a large force of men is nowemployed in a commodious foundry equipped with the most modern devices. On May 2, 1903, the Corbin Screw Corporation was organized as a sub-sidiary company of the American Hardware Corporation, to take charge of themanufacture of screws and screw products in the screw plants formerly belong-ing to P. & F. Corbin and the Russell & Erwin Manufacturing Company. 90. SHIPPING GOODS HISTORY OF THE HOUSE OF P. & F. CORBIN Both of these companies had large screw manufacturing departments which hadbeen in operation for a Httle more than twenty-five years, and the industry hadgrown so important that it was thought best to sell the two plants to a newcompany who could specialize this business, and give it the separate and dis-tinct attention its importance warranted and that would be best conducive to itsgrowth. On July i, 1903, the new company came into possession of the NewBritain screw-making plant of P. & F. Corbin and the screw plants of Russell& Erwin Manufacturing Co., in New Britain, Conn., and Dayton, Ohio, andassumed charge of the screw business conducted therein. Mr. Charles Glover, a director of P. & F. Corbin, and formerly the man-ager of their screw department, is the president of this new corporation. In 1876, when P. & F. Corbin decided to make the wood screws used withtheir goods, they
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