Bridgeport Machine Milling Ashtray
notes: label: Description
content: This ashtray was owned by Eugene B. Johnson (October 18, 1915 - November 22, 2007), who worked for over fifty years in the tool and die manufacturing field. After working as salesmen at the National Sales Engineering Corporation, he and his brother-in-law Fred Schulz bought that company and started a second company, Johnson-Shulz Machine Sales. He continued to travel to make sales for both companies and retired as the vice president of both.
label: Description
content: The ashtray was made by a milling machine (a precise power-driven tool that cuts away material) and thus doubled as a sample of milling machine work. The interior of the ashtray has a logo for Bridgeport Machines, with the word Bridgeport and a picture of a milling machine, accompanied by the slogan “the most for the least.” Bridgeport Machines is the leading manufacturer of milling machines, which they provide to sales companies like Johnson’s two companies, which then supplied small tool and die shops.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
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content: Work and Industry: Manufacturing
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Gift of Kathleen Johnson
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 2008.0187.06
label: catalog number
content: 2008.0187.06
label: accession number
content: 2008.0187
objectType: label: Object Name
content: ashtray
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: aluminum (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 1 in x 3 7/8 in; x 2.54 cm x 9.8425 cm