Walter Scott & Company.

Walter Scott & Company was organized in Plainfield, N.J., in 1884. The firm was a major manufacturer of printing presses, particulaly the large high-speed presses and folding machines used by newspapers.

Walter Scott was born in Ayr, Scotland on May 22, 1844, and was educated at Ayr Academy. He came to America in 1869 and settled in Chicago, where he began developing printing and paper-folding machinery. He received his first patent in 1874, and in the same year he built the first folding machine to be combined with a rotary printing press for the Chicago Inter-Ocean.

Scott relocated to Plainfield, N.J., and constructed a plant covering five acres to his own specifications in 1884. He developed the straight-line printing and folding machine in 1890, and by 1903 he held 200 patents. Scott died on September 14, 1907, and his widow continued to operate the business until her death in 1931, when she was succeeded by their son, David J. Scott. The firm was sold to the Wood Newspaper Machinery Corporation on March 14, 1957.

From the description of Records, 1876-1929. (Hagley Museum & Library). WorldCat record id: 122459532