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James Torgeson shared 4 photos posted by Johnny Joo.
Johnny's comment: "This Cleveland company made some of the largest machines in the world.
James' comment: "The former McDowell-Wellman plant in Cleveland. Home of the
Huletts!"
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"The firm started in 1896 as the Wellman-Seaver Engineering Co., founded by the inventor of the first open-hearth furnace in the U.S., Samuel T. Wellman, his brother, Chas. H. Wellman, and John W. Seaver, to engineer and design steel mills and industrial plant equipment. In 1901 it constructed a plant at Central Ave. and E. 71st St." The corporation went through a series of mergers and name changes. It became McDowell-Wellman Engineering Co. in 1963. After that company was purchased in 1978, it was sold a few more times and the Cleveland plant was abandoned in 1988. [
case] George Hulett joined the company as an Executive Vice President soon after the company was founded in 1896 to help them manufacture the
unloader that he invented. Cleveland Track Material acquired the Cleveland plant when it became available. In 2007, Caterpillar's Progress Rail Services bought CTM for $41m and closed the plant. [
ArchitecturalAfterlife] I see Caterpillar has some practice closing plants. I knew they also closed a
major plant in Montgomery, IL and most of the
EMD plant in LaGrange, IL.
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| 1953 Cleveland South Quad @ 1:24,000 |
Huletts were just one of their various material handling products they built. For example, they also built rotary coal car unloaders.
More example of the type of things they built.
James Torgeson
shared a DRONE Ohio
post of 24 photos
Apr 23, 2024:
2 of 24 photos in the above article:
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