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Chris I am intrigued by yout mention of Nicobraze, do you mean one of theri 'stop-off' grades?Jerry
Quote from: Steam Haulage on March 27, 2018, 09:35:13 AMHi Chris, The HCEA has masses of detailed information in their archive. Which includes the 'Marion PowerShovel Company Archive'. Being a few thousand miles away I'm not in a position to visit their Museum for myself but from whatI hear you may be able to find the detail you need. There might even be a member who has the information. A recent article in 'Equipment Echoes' magazine by Don Franz the editor, whose father had been a craneman on the Marion 91 Panama shovel in the France quarry in Waterville Ohio.The HCEA phone is(419)352-5616. Perhaps a call might be worthwhile?JerryI have been through the listings of those archives, for the early years it appears that what they have are patent documents and sales brochures and such, all in very poor condition (dirty, brittle) waiting to be photocopied. For the early years, does not sound like they have much I have not seen elsewhere. The Marion County historical society got the other half of the old company documents. I've been in touch with them a few times, things are not organized but I may stop in there on my way out to Indiana this summer and see what I can find. Both places got boxes of documents when the company was shut down in the 90s by Bucyrus - by then, as in many old companies, early records were mostly missing as irrelevant to current operations. Same thing happened at Kodak - we had a museum room full of old cameras and products, and during the bankruptcy shutdown of the camera division, they were just giving the stuff away to anyone interested in a souvineer! For companies like Marion, every time they went through a building move, merger, or buyout, truckloads of stuff would be tossed that we would kill for today!
Hi Chris, The HCEA has masses of detailed information in their archive. Which includes the 'Marion PowerShovel Company Archive'. Being a few thousand miles away I'm not in a position to visit their Museum for myself but from whatI hear you may be able to find the detail you need. There might even be a member who has the information. A recent article in 'Equipment Echoes' magazine by Don Franz the editor, whose father had been a craneman on the Marion 91 Panama shovel in the France quarry in Waterville Ohio.The HCEA phone is(419)352-5616. Perhaps a call might be worthwhile?Jerry
Hi Chris, Just sent off for ANOTHER truck load At this rate you should be digging snow come THIS Christmas !!!!.......the shovel clearing a path for the Lombard pulling a load of Xmas trees.......with a bunch of elves yahooing on top!Great work Chris!Zee.....you reading this thread???.....now you are unemployed ...... or has T got the list of jobs out now the weather is improving your side of the globe, I feel your pain!! Cheers Kerrin
Zee.....you reading this thread???.....now you are unemployed ...... or has T got the list of jobs out now the weather is improving your side of the globe, I feel your pain!!
Quote from: Steamer5 on April 04, 2018, 12:10:27 PMZee.....you reading this thread???.....now you are unemployed ...... or has T got the list of jobs out now the weather is improving your side of the globe, I feel your pain!! Read what thread? This one? It's a hole from which I won't get out. Trying to catch up on a lot of things but T hasn't provided a list yet. I think she's letting me wind down.1st on list is to get more popcorn (and cookies more to my taste )I'm liking your speed Chris. Stanley's just around the corner. Next week I'm thinking.
It's looking great Chris I'm sure a good doctor could cure your fetish for making 1000's of rivets and studs though