The Worcester of eighteen hundred and ninety-eightFifty years a city . s used are from s])ecial designs and covered by patents ciwned by the The Worcester of 1898. 501 Norton Ciimpany. These are built in the companys well-equipped machine-shop, as is also grinding-machinery for the market. It will be seen fromthe foregoing that the plant is complete in itself. The works are immediately on the line of two great railway systems, theBoston & Maine and Fitchburg, a spur track running through the originalbuilding, rendering teaming unnecessary either in receiving fuel or rawmaterial, or in shipping
The Worcester of eighteen hundred and ninety-eightFifty years a city . s used are from s])ecial designs and covered by patents ciwned by the The Worcester of 1898. 501 Norton Ciimpany. These are built in the companys well-equipped machine-shop, as is also grinding-machinery for the market. It will be seen fromthe foregoing that the plant is complete in itself. The works are immediately on the line of two great railway systems, theBoston & Maine and Fitchburg, a spur track running through the originalbuilding, rendering teaming unnecessary either in receiving fuel or rawmaterial, or in shipping the manufactured product. Each of the two rail-roads makes Barbers Crossing a regular station for both passengers andfreight, and the Norton Companys express matter is taken from or putaboard the cars at the companys doors. The principal business, that in which the company is most widely known,is the manufacture and sale of emery wheels, corundum wheels, and wheelsin which emery and corundum are combined, and a successful novelty is theemerv brick or Raw material is received at the factory, as ground emery and groundcorundum, in different degrees of coarseness. It is largely of importedstock, though some native material is used for special purposes, but all mustbe (if the purest quality. The different processes it undergoes — sifting, , puddling, shaping,drying, baking, truing and testing — are interesting. Of the millions pro-duced, every wheel is numbered and registered; a history of its treatmentfrom the time of its shaping is preserved, and before leaving the works it issubjected to a test many times greater than it is ever apt to receive whenin actual use. Norton wheels are now used for an almost infinite variety of shapes and sizes are almost numberless, but there is only one quality,and that the best. They range from 1-4 to 36 inches in diameter, and from1-32 to 4 inches in thickness. Thirty degrees of coarseness are made, about120
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