Westinghouse Canada. Ninth accrual. – 1905. – 2003. – 52 cm of textual
records and graphic material. -- 3 CDs.
Box 48
Historical material:
F.2-3 Presidents’s circular letters, 1952-1994; there is also
an index of the letters covering 1973-1994.
F.4 Service Department History; several different versions, written
at various times, 1952-1962, typescripts and mimeos.
F.5 Letters Patent, 13 July 1903, photocopy, not known when photocopy
was made but no earlier than 1980.
F.6 Production schedule, 1975
F.7 Frank Gue, memoirs in the form of email, June-July 1996.
Photographs:
F.8 Paul Judson Mylor (1869-1945), president and chairman of the
board; 2 b&w photographs, one take in 1929 in Florida, the other
is undated. Also a typed, biographical sketch, Hamilton Gallery of Distinction
programme, 2000, letter from Paul J. Myler Trust, 2003, photocopies
of news clippings.
F.9 Ella J. Baird, industrial nurse, 1917-1951; 1 b&w photograph.
Also an appointment letter, 1941, news clipping, 1951, copy of letter,
1942
F.10 Buildings:
24&w photographs; most of the photographs are later reproductions
Factory as purchased in 1896; after renovations, 1897; laying foundations,
1904; view west from Birch and Princess, 1912 (4)
West Plant, artist’s drawing, 1904 (5), one with note that the
building was constructed to a different plan
West Plant, under construction
Foundry interior, ca. 1910
Air Brake, 1912 (under construction),1930s (4)
Lamp Works, ca. 1921 (2)
Record Building under construction, 1927 (2)
Engineering Department, interior, ca. 1930 (2)
Head Office, 1917 (2); building in Calgary, ca. 1920s; building in Montreal,
ca. 1920s
Unidentified buildings, possibly not in Canada; T. Eaton Company, 1930;
Chicago Worlds’ Fair, 1893; museum displays (8)
Other structures: Welland canal bridge (2); Memorial Bridge, Pittsburgh
(1, also col. post card).
F.11 Machines, Equipment and Products:
8 col, 85 b&w photographs. Many of the photographs have been annotated
on the verso with descriptions. Products include irons, toasters, and
fans. Machines are photographs on the shop floor, in transport, individually,
and installed in other plants.
F.12 Employees at Work:
2 col.; 32 b&w photographs, 1900s-1986. On the shop floor, foundry,
assembly line, offices. Identified employees include: John David Smith,
Jimmy Parrish, Cecil Moorehouse, Jim Young. There is a negative of Ron
Pohl.
F.13 Executives, managers and works staff
18 b&w group photographs, 1905-1919
F.14 Employees, Recreational Activities:
22 b&w group photographs, 1912-1950. Sports teams, picnics, parades.
There is one oversize photograph in Map Cabinet 30.
F.15 Other:
1 b&w photograph of George W. Melville, George Westinghouse, and
John H. MacAlpine; Admiral Richard E. Byrd, autographed, 1928 with printed
notices about the “Far North Braodcasts”; photocopy of Duke
of York visit to the Gun shop in 1942. Also 33 b&w and col. photographic
slides, many marked “return to M.A. Leckie”, variety of subjects.
Box 49
Printed Materials:
F.1 Sandy Manners, 100 Years in Canada, 1903-2003. Another
copy of this publication has been catalogued.
F.2 Three compact disks related to the book.
F.3 Manufacturing Facilities, printed information about, n.d.,
1978-1979.
F.4 News clippings, 1955-1995.
F.5 Advertising, pamphlets, customer’s manual for refrigerators,
1950-2001. Two oversize pieces are in Map Cabinet 30.
F.6 Programmes, three for banquets, 1924-1926, one for a press
conference, 1953
F.7 Two booklets: “Maintenance Hints”, n.d.; “Hints
on Maintenance for Transformers”, n.d.
F.8 Offprint: “The History of Broadcasting in the United
States”, H.P. Davis, Vice-President, 1928.
F.9 Two booklets: “Power in the West”, n.d. but earlier
twentieth century; “Turbine and Generator Division, Hamilton, Plant
#1 Facilities”, n.d. but later twentieth century; also a blank
diary of the Steam Turbine Department, 1978.
Box 50
Publications are bound and thus not put into file folders.
Applied Protective Relaying
Electrical Transmission and Distribution Reference Book, 1944, 1950
(2 editions)
Factory Testing of Westinghouse Electric Apparatus
Home Wiring Handbook
Inventory Control Workshop, 1957
Lighting Handbook, 1956
Switchboards: Installation, Operation, Maintenance
Transformers for the Electric Power Industry
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