Northern Pump Companyrecords. 1916-1980.

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Northern Pump Companyrecords. 1916-1980.

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Business records include contract renegotiations with theU.S. Navy (1942, 1943, 1964), publications and news articles (1942-1944, 1965),photographs (undated) and photograph albums (1941, 1949-1950), and speeches(1941-1963), while Hawley's personal papers include correspondence (1918, 1933-1938,1980), photographs (1912-1967), and miscellaneous material. The bulk of thecollection is a set of recorded speeches, mostly given by Hawley to Northern Pump'semployees during World War Two ordnance production.

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Hawley, John B. (John Blackstock), 1899-1980

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Northern Ordnance Incorporated

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Northern Pump Company

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In 1929, Northern Pump Company was created from the merger of two Minneapolis, Minnesota, businesses: Northern Fire Apparatus Company and the Pagel Pump Company. In January 1941 Northern Pump left its Central Avenue location for a new plant in Fridley, Minnesota, and in June 1942 created the subsidiary Northern Ordnance Incorporated to fulfill its federal production contracts. Post-war, Northern Ordnance continued its naval production and in 1964 was purchased by Food Ma...