The Union County journal. [volume] (Marysville, Ohio) 1875-1951, 1948-08-12
Pennsylvania Co.
Buys Salters
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are now customers of the II.
B. Salter Mfg. Co.
The newly acquired facilities
have ample ground and room
for expansion to take care of
increasing needs as they de-
velp from time to time.
We are glad to announce
that the operation of these ex-
panded facilities will be under
the direct management of MIR.
RI. B. Salter. who is joining the
executive board of the Eljer or
qanization.
Included in the transaction, a
long with the H. B. Salter Manu-
featuring Co. are these subsidi-
aries:
Union Screw Products Co., Ma
rysville, started by Mr.. Salter in
1941; National Brass Manufactur-
ing Co., Bellefontaine, acquired
by him in 1914; Glauber Brass
Manufacturing Co., acquired Oct.
/, 1915; Ohio Diecasters Co., Ma
rysville, started in 1916; and Erie
Machine Co., Cleveland, screw
products machine company, and
Delaware Tubular Products Co.,
Ashley, manufacturers of traps,
both of which Mr. Salter acquired
in 1916.
The Eljer Co., new owners of
these plants, is described by Mr..
Salter as very aggressive type
Of business, a leader in the field
of plumbing fittings"
Has Three Factories
The Eljer Cos. home office and
main plant is in Ford City, Pa,
north of Pittsburgh. It maintains
branch plants in Salem, O., and
Los Angeles. Its operations are,
of course, nation wide and it does
great deal of export business.
All of the old Salter orders re-
manning on the books will be
filled, Mr.. Salter pointed out. This
will probably require another
three months, after which pro-
duction will be entirely diverted
to The Eljer Co., and its custom
erS.
At the present time, the Salter
plant is working one shift and
has 275 employees, Mr.. Salter
stated, adding:
I'VE are in the process of
changing to two full eight hour
shifts each day. approximately
100 more employees will be need
ed, and will be added as rapidly
as we can secure them"
Dates Back 40 Years
The H. B. Salter Manufactur-
ing Co. has history in Marys-
vile which dates back nearly 40
years. It was started here in 1911
by Joe Coture, who moved the
business from Bucyrus, and was
called the Regle Brass.
In 1917, it was purchased by the
Fisher family, and was known as
the Fisher Brass Co. until the
time Mr.. Salter acquired owner
ship in 1910. In the eight years
that Mr.. Salter has owned the
plant, it has exhibited rapid and
remarkable expansion.
A new, completely modern off
ice building was first erected, be-
ing completed in 1912. During the
war, a large cement block factory
building was constructed to house
the foundry and other depart
ments. These were completely re-
equipped with the latest type of
foundry and smelling equipment,
and the Salter foundry today is
said to be the most modern and
efficient in the country.
Final step in the expansion pro-
gram was completion of another
huge concrete block building this
past winter, to house assembling.
buffing and finishing depart
ments. A complete chrome plating
system was installed this spring,
to make the Salter plant one of
the finest and most complete of
its kind in the nation.
Came Here in 1897
Mr.. Salter came to Marysville
IN 1897, being sent here as man.
ager of Fisher Brass by its then
owner, American Smelling g. Re-
fining Co. His experience in the
brass business dates back to his
days as a student at Ohio Wes-.
leyan University.
While attending college there.
Mr.. Salter worked during the
summers for Ohio Brass Co. in
Mansfield. Upon his graduation in
1881 he became associated with
Atlas Brass Co. in Columbus
From there, he went to Glauber
Brass Co., then located in Cleve-
land, as plant superintendent. Mr..
Salter stayed with Glauber until
coming here in 1897.
1t is interesting to note that
Mr.. Salter's grandfather, a native
of England, had an iron foundry
in that country in the early 1905.
His father, James P. Salter, was
IN the same business, and was
also one time plant superinten-
dent for the old Fisher Brass
plant in Delaware.