The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1923-05-13
Nashville Bridge Company
Has Invested Several Hun
dred Thousand Dollars In
Industry Which Is Now
Turning Out More Plates
MAKES FOURTH PLANT
TO OPERATE IN 10 DAYS
Coming OF Nashville Bridge
And Virginia Bridge Regard
ed As Significant Of Tide OF
Production To Birmingham
As A Producing Center

Following the start OF operations
at the merchant bar mill of the Ten
nessee company at Fairfield on Mon
day the new plant OF the Nashville
Bridge company at Bessemer has also
gone into operation, adding substan-
TALLY to the districts capacity as
producer of structural steel.
II is the fourth new plant within
a week to ten days that has been
Eshered into the activities of the dis
trict. The Phoenix Portland Cement
company's 1000, 600 barrel plant at
East Birmingham and the Merit
hardwood flooring mills have also
Just come in.
The Ma shville Bridge plant at Bes-
semer was built by the parent COM
pany of that name, whose structural
steel works at Nashville are among
the most successful in the country.
The local plant will not be altogether
completed for week TO ten days,
hut it is operating in the completed
departments, construction on which
has especially advanced to care for
pressing business. The plant is now
turning out plates for tanks and steel
shapes for a number of barges for
the governments use on the Cumber-
land river.
c. A wilmore. an experienced
Pittsburg structural steel operator, is
manager of fthe local plant, which
has general sales offices in the JET
ferson County Bank building.
The Nashville Bridge plant is mod
ern in every point of construction
and will measure UP to the best. in
the south 1t represents an invest
nent of several hundred thousands
Of dollars
Growth or Industry.
All the structural steel works of
the district have been marked sue
cesses. The industry has been eon-
siderably increased in the past sew
eral years by new plants. Two of
these new ones have been established
within a year. The Virginia Bridge
and Iron company bought the old
plant of the Birmin CHAM Steel cor
poration year ago and added a car
making adjunct. 1t has been ex-
tremely busy since it began opera
tons.
Why They Come.
Coming to Birmingham of the
Nashville Bridge and the Virginia
Bridge and Iron is accepted in indus
trial circles as additionally signifi-
cant in that these two concerns al
ready operated successful plants at
other points. The Virginia Bridge
and Iron has large works at Roanoke,
Va. and Memphis, and the Nashville
Bridge has its large and successful
plant at Nashville. Coming of these
concerns to Birmingham has been
taken in industrial circles as ac-
acknowledgement Of two basic condl-
tions. the one being the advantage of
proximity TO Birmingham s raw ma
terial supply and the other the ad-
vantageous situation Of Birmingham
for distribution of product in the
southeastern states.
O o o
Big steel job.
One Birmingham structural steel
concern, the ingalls, Iron works, is
making deliveries on an order for
500 tons of steel for the sugar REIN
cry at Texas City, Tex, the largest
structural steel order ever booked in
the south.
All the new plants, the Tennessee
company bar mill, the Phoenix cement
plant, the Merit hardwood floor mills
and the Nashville Bridge, have begun
operations with well-filled order
books