page_title: Arthur E. Drumm
section_title: Marysville Rotary Broom Service, Inc.
hierarchical_section_title: Arthur E. Drumm / Biography / Industrial Brooms / Marysville Rotary Broom Service, Inc.
caption_attribution_description: English: United Rotary Brush, Marysville, Ohio, United States
context_page_description: Arthur E. Drumm was an American inventor, environmentalist, military subcontractor, and industrialist of the modern street sweeping broom industry, as well as a publisher.
context_section_description: In 1964, Drumm started Marysville Rotary Broom Service, Inc. in his machine shop, which was on the property of his home and farm.  He would sell locally and regionally through "word of mouth."  In the late 1960s he would develop a machine which made the manufacturing of wafer brooms cheaper and faster through a mechanical process, versus the old manual process.  This gave the business an advantage, and production increased dramatically.
  By the 1970s, the company had become a notable player in the industry, selling nationally and worldwide.  Drumm would obtain several more U.S. patents in the years to come, which included intellectual property for core mounting assemblies, sweeper brushes, rotary broom core assemblages, spiral brushes, and brush bristle units. The machine shop Drumm had started in eventually would be transformed into a modern factory through additions and new construction during this period.
  The company reached its pinnacle under Drumm by the mid-1980s.  It was attracting attention from all over with various interests, including being featured on the local Columbus WBNS-TV evening news in a story about Reaganomics and the successful impact it was having locally on the economy with businesses.
  For personal reasons, Drumm would let go of Marysville Rotary Broom Service, Inc., eventually being bought out in 1985 by Dick Savage.  Kennedy Brush, Savage's other industrial broom manufacturing company, and Marysville Rotary Broom Service, Inc. would merge in 1990 to form United Rotary Brush.
caption: Present-day building where Marysville Rotary Brush was located
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