1941

"Beloit Iron Works"

Paper Machines:

    #249 Crocker Burbank #4      164" Fourdrinier    Massachusetts     800 f.p.m.

  *#250 Rhinelander #6               182" Fourdrinier    Wisconsin            750 f.p.m.

     #251 Gaylord Container #7    214" Fourdrinier    Louisiana            1500 f.p.m.

     #252 Mead Corporation #4   136" Fourdrinier    Ohio                    750 f.p.m.

**#254 Georgetown #3               216" Fourdrinier    South Carolina  1600 f.p.m.

* "The Big Swede" built to manufacture glassine.

** This 5 million pound giant capable of producing equivalent of its weight every four days.

Comments:

Charles T. Ramsden elected vice president (1/11/41-8/4/41) and

H. C. Moore elected vice president (1941-1952) of the Iron Works.

Dryer boring bar 16" in diameter installed in dryer shop.

Company purchased the Gaston Scale Company property . 720 acres

and obtained the Young Manufacturing Company property with. 262 acres.

This brought the holdings of property in the Beloit plant to approximately

9-1/4 acres.

Elbert H. Neese, Jr., son of President E. H. Neese, Sr., began

work with the company on July 7.

Produced: Two winders, eight reels, five presses, four fourdrin-

iers, four dryer sections, and five calenders.

Paper machinery produced: 19,755, 992#

Castings produced: 16,572,058f

Suction rolls: 60

Drives: 109

Dryers: 472

Pipe rolls average per month: 100

Number of employees: 770

Total machine hours: 301,422

Cornell Wood Products purchased the Hummell and Downing Com-

pany of Milwaukee, Wisconsin,

The Rhinelander Paper Company placed their number six machine,

the Big Swede, in operation.

Charles T. Ramsden, vice president, died on August 3.

First World War II work began in January, and priorities placed in

effect for obtaining raw materials.

The Marinette Paper Company was incorporated on November 11 and

later became a subsidiary of the Scott Paper Company. Eleven days after

its incorporation, Marinette acquired the Park Mill and Victory Mill at

Marinette, Wisconsin, and the Menominee Mill at Menominee, Michigan.

In addition to these mills the company acquired a paper mW at Glen Falls,

New York, and in 1944 took over an additional plant at Fort Edward, New

York.