Farrel-Birmingham Company

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Founded in 1848 as Farrel Foundry & Machinery Company by Almon Farrel of Ansonia, CT. The Buffalo plant was built in 1920, and in 1927 Farrel merged with the Birmingham Iron Foundry of New England to form Farrel - Birmingham Company, Inc. The company manufactured gears, machinery for the production of gears and machines for the rubber, paper, cane sugar, nonferrous metals, plastics, asbestos and stone crushing industries. The Buffalo plant closed in 1961 and operations were moved to other plant locations.

From the description of Farrel - Birmingham Company photographs, 1947 Oct. 16-1961 Oct. 26 : 344 Vulcan Street / Buffalo, N.Y. (Buffalo History Museum). WorldCat record id: 24146875

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creatorOf Farrel-Birmingham Company. Farrel-Birmingham injection molding machine photographs, 1956 Feb. 17 - 1959 Oct. 13. Buffalo History Museum, Research Library
referencedIn Copelof, Maxwell, 1879-. Papers, 1940-1954 Harvard Law School Library Langdell Hall Cambridge, MA 02138
creatorOf Farrel-Birmingham Company. Farrel-Birmingham award presentation photographs, 1960 Sept. 7. Buffalo History Museum, Research Library
creatorOf Farrel-Birmingham Company. Farrel-Birmingham propellor shaft photographs, 1954 Feb. 26 - 1955 Jan. 18. Buffalo History Museum, Research Library
creatorOf Farrel-Birmingham Company. Farrel-Birmingham plant view photographs, 1952 July 13 - 1960 Nov. 21, 344 Vulcan Street, Buffalo, N.Y. Buffalo History Museum, Research Library
creatorOf Farrel-Birmingham Company. Farrel-Birmingham press machinery photographs, 1953 Apr. 21 - 1959 Dec. 7. Buffalo History Museum, Research Library
creatorOf Farrel-Birmingham Company. Farrel-Birmingham gear photographs, 1952 Sept. 17 - 1956 Feb. 2. Buffalo History Museum, Research Library
creatorOf Farrel-Birmingham Company. Farrel-Birmingham Old Timers group photographs, 1947 Oct. 16 - 1961 Oct. 26. Buffalo History Museum, Research Library
creatorOf Farrel-Birmingham Company. Farrel-Birmingham portrait photographs, 1960 Sept. 7. Buffalo History Museum, Research Library
creatorOf Farrel-Birmingham Company. Farrel-Birmingham drive photographs, 1952 Dec. 22 - 1956 Dec. 27. Buffalo History Museum, Research Library
creatorOf Farrel-Birmingham Company. Farrel-Birmingham machine photographs, 1952 Sept. 29 - 1958 Oct. 9. Buffalo History Museum, Research Library
creatorOf American Instrument Company, Inc. Trade Catalog Collection. Series VII. Machinery. Hagley Museum & Library
creatorOf Farrel-Birmingham Company. Farrel - Birmingham Company photographs, 1947 Oct. 16-1961 Oct. 26 : 344 Vulcan Street / Buffalo, N.Y. Buffalo History Museum, Research Library
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New York (State)--Buffalo
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Factories
Gearing
Machinery industry
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