Miscellaneous company documents
- A recipe to make a combination
cutting/lubrication oil for cutting-off machines.
- The personal sales portfolio
of Charles Gorton, circa 1939 or 1940 timeframe.
Bound in leather, it is about 2 inches think, and contains all sorts
of price sheets, product brochures & manuals, testimonial
(reference) telegrams, a lot of product photos, and a few
personal items - a bowling league result listing his score,
photos of what appears to be a corporate mens' glee club(!) and
even a photo of a formal 1937 company gathering.
- Envelopes and stationary with various
company logos. The interoffice envelope
probably dates from the 1960's (Chuck Larsen was there during the
1960s and 1970s).
- A patent licensing agreement between George Gorton Machine Co.
and Niles-Bement-Pond Co., (Pratt & Whitney) from
1936
- A 4-party patent licensing agreement between George Gorton
Machine Co. and the three assignees: Kearney & Trecker,
Brown and Sharpe, and Cincinnati Milling from
1939
Early business correspondence and licenses
These are all carbon copies on extremely thin paper which were
subsequently bound into a volume. Some of these are fairly faint
simply due to being carbon copies.
[I hope to eventually transcribed these.]
- Invoices: 1893 - 1898.
- Orders: 1893 - 1894.
Most of these appears to be business correspondance on behalf of
the Racine Basket Manufacturing Co.
- General business communications: 1894 - 1895.
- General business communications: May 1895 - Nov, 1895.
- General business communications: Nov 1895 - May, 1896.
- General business communications: May, 1896 - Jan, 1897.
- General business communications: Jan, 1897 - Apr, 1897.
- General business communications: Oct, 1898 - Feb, 1900.
- Various business letters and designs: March 1895 - April, 1897
It is not obvious why the contents of this book are not in other books - some
items are invoices, some are designs for parts, and some are simply requests
for documentation from various places. One of the more surprising items is
a letter to W.S. Buffham & Sons wanting an interest payment, and information
as to why payment has not been prompt. Especially considering that W.S.Buffham
is George's uncle.
- Inventory of the Racine Basket Co.
This inventory was dated Nov. 1893, and taken for Judge E.B.Belden.
It may have been part of the probate of the estate of George Gorton I.
- A patent licensing agreement between George Gorton Machine Co.
and Taylor, Taylor, & Hobson, from
1898.
These are oversized documents, and were scanned in multiple parts.
Interestingly, one signature on this is from the U.S. Patent commissioner
Charles H. Duell. Duell is [in]famous for allegedly
having claimed "Everything that can be invented has been invented."
Said attribution is very likely urban myth, but interesting in any
case.
- A patent licensing agreement between George Gorton Machine Co.
and Taylor, Taylor, & Hobson, from
1905
- A patent licensing agreement between George Gorton Machine Co.
and Taylor, Taylor, & Hobson, from
1906
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