Information about this company is from two of their catalogs. Quinn Wire and Iron Works operated a foundry and machine shop specializing in cast-iron forms and machinery for making concrete pipe. Their other products included iron casting for farming and public utilities. The items of interest to this site were Simplex bench shears, "for the average blacksmith, repair man, and small manufacturer."
Dates of operation are not known, except that one catalog is 1946.
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