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- Ronnie Pitman
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- 2021-03-29 14:44:50
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Richmond, Virginia
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- Airco Air Reduction Sales Company 900 block Bickerstaff Road Richmond, Virginia 37º30'33" N 77º24'28" W My thanks to John Sullivan for his photo of this gem of a building. See his photo for a three-dimensional perspective. Here are a couple of items pertaining to this building: Richmond Times-Dispatch , October 7, 1918, page ten. WAR AND INDUSTRIAL GAS TO BE MADE IN NEW PLANT New Fulton Enterprise Backed by Air-Reduction Company, of New York WILL EMPLOY 100 OPERATIVES Expected to Become One of City's Chief Industries, and Will Supply Important Products to Munition and Civilian Manufacturers. The concern purchasing the Fulton lot for a new industry last week, according to R. T. Crawley, industrial agent for the Chesapeake and Ohio Railway, is the Air Reduction Company, of New York City. It will manufacture oxygen, nitrogen, acetylene gas and probably storage batteries and other gases.This concern has a capital running into the millions. The products of the company are used by the E. I. du Pont de Nemours & Co., the establishment at Fort Lee, the ship-building company at Newport News and by local concerns. It will employ about 100 persons, and is regarded as a valuable addition to the industrial life of this city. It will be located east of Fulton on the property of the old Virginia-North Carolina Wheel Company, on the main line of the Chesapeake and Ohio. The factory will be 40 feet long and 100 feet deep, it is thought. The deed to the property was recorded last week in the Circuit Court for the County of Henrico. The real estate deal was cosummated by R. B. Chaffin and Co. and the J. Thompson Brown Company as representatives of the Crane & MacMahon Company, Inc. The trasferee was Leland R. McKnight. The consideration was $10,000. R. T. Crawley, of the Chesapeake and Ohio, was instrumental in interesting the New York concern in the local proposition. He handled the railroad end of the deal. Mr. Crawley, while discussing this deal and the new industry, stated that the plant at Fort Lee was being doubled in size, he understood. He mentioned the increases in the building of railroad tracks and houses. There is now a perfect web of tracks in the community. It was understood several days ago that the order for doubling the size of the plant had been received. The work is now in process of being done. secondly: Acetylene Journal , 1918-1919, Volume 21, page 268 AIR REDUCTION ERECTS NEW PLANTS The importance of "Acessibility" [sic] in the oxygen business is strongly emphasized in the construction by the Air Reduction Sales Company of new plants at Richmond, Va., and Boston, Mass. These plants, which have been built and equipped according to the most modern thought in this field of construction, form two more links in the chain of Airco service stations throughout the country. Accessibility is an important element in the manufacture and sale of oxygen. The varying demands for the application of the oxy-acetylene process and the consequent fluctuation in gas requirements—plus the high freight rates in force—make the question of supply the welder's chief consideration. He wants his source of supply as near as possible so he can get his gas quickly, when necessary, and at the same time secure the benefit of low transportation charges. The Air Reduction Sales Company has worked out its service plan so that not only has it a station available to every user, but what is also important, maintains a staff of expert welders whose duty it is to place their services at the disposal of shops that have some particularly difficult welding or cutting problem to overcome, etc. At both Boston and Richmond plants have likewise been built for the manufacture of Airco acetylene.
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