Frick 100th Anniversary Company History Reprint—sawmills, Traction Engines

US $25.00

Mebane, North Carolina, United States
Jan 30th

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A History of Frick Company, Waynesboro, Penn.: Celebrating a Century of Engineering Service, 1853-1953, originally published by the Frick Company, Waynesboro, Penn., 1952. Reproduced in 2009 by Nation Builder Books, Mebane, NC. 8 1/2 x 11 paperback, 46 pages. Please note that this is a photoduplicated reproduction of the original. The accompanying images were scanned from a reprint, not the original. Frick may be making only refrigerating equipment these days (as part of either Johnson Controls, or York Inc.), but only a half century ago, threshers, sawmills and steam engines produced by Frick were among the most highly regarded and most popular in the country. George Frick (1826-1895) was an engineering genius, who began building steam engines for farm use in the early 1850s, in a shop on Antietam Creek in Pennsylvania. As this official company history states, “George Frick heard the guns at the battles of Antietam and Gettysburg, saw the pony express superseded by the trans-continental railroad, supplied machines which helped open the Great West, and ushered in the era of refrigeration. When he died in 1892, Frick equipment was in use from Coast to Coast. The history of the Company he founded thus parallels the story of America.’ And it’s all here, with nearly 200 black and white drawings, photos, and illustrations. This fabulous book is literally a museum of the Frick Company, and the great equipment it manufactured. There is a photo of the town of Frick, Switzerland, the ancestral home of the Frick family. There are also photos of the Frick home in Quincy, Penn., which, according to the caption, was later occupied by other important companies: Landis Tool Co., Landis Machine Co., and the Good Lumber Co., There’s a photo of George Frick’s home and shop near Ringgold, Md., which was still standing in the mid 1950s when this incredible document was written. There’s a photo of the first Frick shop in Waynesboro, which burned down in 1882. It even shows a number of workers standing on the roof of an adjoining shed. There are facsimile reproductions of some the first ads by Frick, including the announcement of the 1852 opening of a “New Machine Shop & Iron Foundry” in the Waynesboro Village Record. There’s a photo of the “Brick Shops” which were built in Waynesboro in 1869 to house a foundry, boiler shop, smith shop, forge shop, pattern department, and machine shop. I stopped in Waynesboro about ten years ago, and I’m pretty sure that this building is still standing next to the fence that now encloses the York Inc. property. And of course, there is photo after photo and drawing after drawing of Frick portable steam engines, traction engines, saw mills, compressors, pumps, refrigeration equipment, threshers, balers, gas tractors, and much, much more. Of course, an original is going to have better quality pictures. But I strive to get the best possible photocopying, and the cover is an exact color facsimile of the original. I guarantee you will spend many enjoyable hours poring over these great photos and pictures of one of the greatest American manufacturing companies ever. Please note that this is a photoduplicated reproduction of the original. The accompanying images were scanned from a reprint, not the original.

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