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Camden Tool & Tube Works
Camden, NJ, U.S.A.
Manufacturer Class: Metal Working Machinery

History

Last Modified: Aug 18 2019 3:07PM by Mark Stansbury
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Camden Tool & Tube Works was established in 1864 at Second and Stevens Sts. in Camden as a branch of Reading Iron Works. The company made "wrought-iron tubes, hand and power screw-cutting machines, screwing stocks and dies, drill-stocks, dies, taps, reamers, tongs and other tools used by gas-fitters and plumbers."

Information Sources

The History of Camden County, New Jersey, by George R. Prowell, 1886, Pg. 508

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