. The street railway review . WINDING ROOM-FRANK RIDLON machinery in the East, conceived the idea that the rapid develop-ments which were even then being made in electrical researchwould soon make possible the establishment of a business devotedto the buying and selling of slightly worn electrical machinery,discarded for larger units, or made obsolete by improved accordingly took advantage of an opportunity that soon afterpresented itself and purchased a small repair shop in Boston, wherehe at once set about buying all the second-hand generators andmotors he could secure,
. The street railway review . WINDING ROOM-FRANK RIDLON machinery in the East, conceived the idea that the rapid develop-ments which were even then being made in electrical researchwould soon make possible the establishment of a business devotedto the buying and selling of slightly worn electrical machinery,discarded for larger units, or made obsolete by improved accordingly took advantage of an opportunity that soon afterpresented itself and purchased a small repair shop in Boston, wherehe at once set about buying all the second-hand generators andmotors he could secure, making such repairs as were necessaryand selling them again at prices that created a ready business grew at a rapid rate and in 1894, Mr. Ridlon as-. STORE ROOM. sociated with himself Mr. Edmund W. Kellogg, and a stock com-pany was organized, known as the Frank Ridlon Co., under whichtitle the business is still carried on. Mr. Kellogg had been con-nected with the Thomson-Houston Co. as engineer and salesmanand brought with him a wide acquaintance and a rich fund of ex-perience. From this time the scope of the companys activity hasbeen gradually enlarged and in addition to dealing in second-handmachinery it now makes electrical repairs of every descriptionfor electric light and street railway companies, and also acts asterritorial agent for a number of specialties, including the follow- England, and is fitted with modern devices and appliances forwinding and repairing armatures, turning up armature shafts, as-sembling commutators, baking coils and armatures and testing allthis work when it is completed. The present officers of the company are: President, Frank Rid-lon; vice-president, Charles N. Wood, who is one of the best-known su
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