Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1902-02-26
Of A SHOP
Lennox Company's Development
From Repair Shop to Plant
Covering Acres.
Shears That Cut Armor Steel...
Furnaces and Gas Engines.
Sold in All Countries.
Another Manufacturing Institu.
ton That Builds Governors
For Worldwide Use.

ton That Builds Governors
i For Worldwide Use.
4 From a little shop around an up
town corner to the occupancy of halt
dozen huge buildings covering several
acres of ground is the story of the mar
velous growth of the Lennox Machine
/ Company within the space of a few
years. Fifteen years ago half dozen
men. including the two LennoX broth
ers, Dave and Toll" comprised the
working and business force employed;
now the various departments of this
hive of industry give employment and
| good pay to 100 men, emitting the es-
adjustment to rank With the important
/ industrial institutions of Marshalltown
/ and its varied products bringing this
city to the notice of the people of al
most every country of every continent
ion the globe
4 The rapid development and expan-
sion of the Lennox Machine Company
/ is attributable largely to the inventive
! genius of Mr.. David LennoX, its presi-
] dent and active head. While tools and
machinery of an ordinary character are
manufactured extensively and placed
on the market, demands not heretofore
filed for devices and appliances for
special purposes and uses have been
met, with the result that several ma
chimes invented by Mr.. Lennox find a
ready market and are becoming more
and more appreciated in all the civil
lied md developing countries. Prod
ucts yof this factory are in use from
Marshalltown to the empire of Kaiser
Wilhelm ON the east and from Mar
shalltown to Japan and the Philippine
archipelago on the west.
Just at what period the inventive
germ took lodgment in the brain OF
David Lennox he himself does not
know. In all probability it had its in
ception at his birth and developed with
opportunity. The result is that while
this company does a general manufac-
turing business it is specialist. and
has four specialties as it's leaders, all
of which owe their creation to the in
genuity of Mr.. Lennox. Foremost
among these devices is shearing ma
chine, and the utility Of and demand
for this piece of mechanism is not APP
preciated in this city. The other lead
ers are gas engines, furnaces and tap
ping machines. The shears fill n long
felt want to such degree that they
are being installed in the larger rail-
way shops, the locomotive works and |
the shiphuilding yards of this and 9th
err countries. They are manufactured |
in two styles and three sizes. one style |
being designed for bevel edging steel |
plates. They sever steel plates one /
inch in thickness and designed to re-
sist the compact OF heavy projectiles
from dynamite guns, and accomplish |
this with the ease that a dressmaker
cuts and shapes a piece of silk The
machines are self-feeding and will cut
the plates in any shape desired. Some
of the war vessels now afioat with the |
Union Jack at their masthead are
sheathed with steel shaped by this
product of Marshalltown factory. The
shears have been approved by the Mas-
ter Mechanics Association of this
country and orders for them have been
filed in Germany, Canada, the San
francisco navy yard, and all the large
shops and locomotive works Of
America. They are marketed thru one
agency having offices in Chicago and
New York. No other device manufac>
tured completes with the Lennox
shears, and while manufacturers have
been slow to appreciate them. they are
low beginning to recognize their value.
The demand is therefore increasing.
The tapping device is another valua.-
Die Lennox invention that is coming in
% universal use, six of the machines
having recently been shipped to Japan.
others are in use in Germany, Porto
Rico and the new possessions, while
many of the larger cities of the country
ind them Indispensable In the building
md repair of water works mains. This
he largest water mains without shut (,
ing off or decreasing the pressure.
The Lennox furnace, while one of the
more recent products of the company's ,
actory, is better known to the people,
because II Is in general use. This
'ranch of the business is expanding,
md already several carload orders have
'een received for the coming furnace ,
eason. With the increase of this ,
ranch of the business and the demands !,
or others of the specialties, the COM
'any is seriously debating the subject ,
II erecting an entirely new foundry and
lifting establishment for the furnaces
md placing the business in charge of
pecial manager.
The gas engines, the power for which !,
S generated from gasoline, and which ,
re simple to operate, are turned out !
nd sold in great numbers, and engines
Il all capacities are furnished
A visit to this establishment is inter-
sting. The various departments are
III busy. In one room are the wood
workers. and pattern makers: in an
ther a force of men is constantly en-
aged In riveting boilers and furnaces !.
y ar pressure, with little noise
nd less exertion, in great con- {
rast to the old method; In an Y
Their gas engines are being set up and
ested and last, but not least, is the
oundry. The company makes it's own !,
lectricity for lighting purposes and
ecretary Click, of the company, saws
he entire plant is lighted at a cost of :
5 cents per day. Mr. Click and force
bookkeepers and sterographers look !
fter the details of the business end ana :
counts. while Mr.. Lennox directs
lattnrS in all denartmpr,te and q ,l,,i..