January i, 1008.] 



THE INDIA RUBBER WORLD 



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New Brass Foundry of the Boston Woven Hose and Rubber Co. 



Growth of the "Woven Hose" Plant. 



IN 1893 the Boston Woven Hose and Rubber Co. increased 

 their goodly plant at Cambridgeport, Massachusetts, by 

 erecting a huge three-story building that promised to care 

 for all future needs for housing their growing business. To-day 

 this addition, together with several lesser ones, and the primary 

 plant as well, are so crowded with men, machinery, and goods 

 in process that more room has become absolutely necessary, and 

 for some months builders have been at work erecting great 

 factory structures on land adjoining the original plant. 



Perhaps the most interesting of these new additions is the 

 brass foundry. Not that it is the largest of them, although it 

 is the largest brass foundry in the United States. It is built 

 of brick, is 75 X 168 feet in dimension, and is one story, with 



a lofty monitor top. It is here that such goods as the "Boston 

 Nozzle" are made, together with a widely varying line of brass 

 accessories to the hose trade, both for the home company and 

 for manufacturers and dealers everywhere. Next in interest 

 and of even more consequence is a fine four-story building of 

 reinforced concrete, 60 X 325 feet, for the manufacture o£ hose, 

 mats, and smaller press work. This building is as perfect in 

 detail as could be designed, with concrete floors, wide prism 

 glass windows, elevators, electric lights, and so on. On the 

 ground floor are set the presses and machinery for the small 

 work; on the next floor are the machinery and the vulcanizers 

 for hose of the common or garden variety; on the third floor 

 are tables and appliances for the manufacture of special large 



Boston Woven Hose and Rubber Co.'s New Hose and Press Room. 



