. American engineer . identified with the construction of the Panamacanal. A corporation has been formed with a Xew York state charterto engage in the manufacture on an extensive scale of a fullline of Diesel engines, both stationary and marine. The com-pany has strong American backing and also to a large extentthat of the Swedish capitalists who now control the SwedishDiesel Motor Company. The new corporation will take overthe plant and organization of the Mcintosh & Seymour Companyof .Auburn, X^ew York, well known as builders of steam present steam engine business will also be co


. American engineer . identified with the construction of the Panamacanal. A corporation has been formed with a Xew York state charterto engage in the manufacture on an extensive scale of a fullline of Diesel engines, both stationary and marine. The com-pany has strong American backing and also to a large extentthat of the Swedish capitalists who now control the SwedishDiesel Motor Company. The new corporation will take overthe plant and organization of the Mcintosh & Seymour Companyof .Auburn, X^ew York, well known as builders of steam present steam engine business will also be continued asheretofore. The name of the new company is Mcintosh &Seymour Corporation. The Board of Directors is as follows:Marcus Wallenberg, president Stockholms Enskilda Bank, Stock-holm, Sweden; Frank A. Vanderlip, president Xational CityBank, New York; Thatcher M. Brown, Brown Bros. & Co.,Xew York; Edwin S. Church, Auburn, X. Y.; J. A. Seymour,.\uburn, N. Y.; Franklin B. Kirkbride. Xew York: Oscar Lamm,. Stockholm, Sweden, and Philip W. Henry, New York. Thegeneral counsel is W? M. Coleman, New York, N. Y. Ed-win S. Church, formerly superintendent of the Akron Harvester Company, will be executive head of thenew corporation; J. .A. Seymour, president of the Mcintosh &Seymour Company, will be vice-president, in charge of engineer-ing. The initial capitalization will be $2,200,000. Edwin S. Woods, head of the railway supply firm of Edwin & Co., Chicago, III., died on November IS at the home ofhis parents in Cliicpi;n. He was the son of Major John L. Woods, who was for-merly president of theAllen Paper Car WheelCompany and westernrepresentative of theRailway Steel SpringCompany, and is nowwith the Buckeye SteelCastings Company. Ed-win S. Woods organ-ized the company, ofwhich he was presidentin 1903, and was pre-viously vice-president ofthe Kindl Car TruckCompany, Chicago. Itis announced that thebusiness of the companywill be continued alongthe same line


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