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Thompson Bros. Boat Mfg. Co. at Peshtigo became property of Ray Thompson and family. The former branch at Cortland, New York became Thompson Boat Company of New York, Inc. with ownership in the hands of brothers Bob and Ted Thompson, Jr. and their cousin Glenn Thompson. Brothers Roy and G.Grant Thompson gained sole ownership of Cruisers at Oconto.
By 1900, electric-powered pleasure boats outnumbered [citation needed] the combined number of boats powered by steam and explosive engines (as gasoline-powered motors were called). [citation needed] By 1910, the advantages of the range and power of gasoline came to dominate the market and Elco converted to motor boats. [5] The company built the ...
Thompson Bros. Machinery Co. Ltd. was a family owned and operated shipbuilding and repair facility located in Liverpool, Queens County, Nova Scotia. Founded in the early 1900s, it continued to operate under different owners until 2004. The shipyard was notable for its World War II work refitting large numbers of corvettes for the Royal Canadian ...
Engine Company No. 3 is located in Hoboken, Hudson County, New Jersey, United States. The firehouse was designed by Fagan & Briscoe and was built in 1915. The firehouse was added to the National Register of Historic Places on March 30, 1984. The firehouse serves as the headquarters for the Hoboken Fire Department, but houses no fire companies.
The W. & A. Fletcher Company in 1893—image from a company advertisement. W. & A. Fletcher Co. was an American manufacturer of marine boilers and steam engines for steamboats on the Hudson, in the Great Lakes, Long Island Sound, and elsewhere in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. The company was founded in 1853 and associated with ...
The Aeromarine Plane and Motor Company was an early American aircraft manufacturer founded by Inglis M. Upperçu which operated from 1914 to 1930. From 1928 to 1930 it was known as the Aeromarine-Klemm Corporation .
The firm was established in 1852 by former Rogers Locomotive and Machine Works superintendent (and son-in-law of William Swinburne of Swinburne, Smith and Company) John Cooke and former Montreal resident Charles Danforth as the Danforth, Cooke, and Company, as a manufacturer of steam locomotives as well as cotton machinery. [1]