We have seen photos of a bandsaw whose aluminum wheel cover reads Zenith / 13" / Brantford Canada.

Information Sources

• One possible maker is Zenith Alloys Co., Brantford. At this time there is nothing other than the "Zenith" name and the use of aluminum parts to suggest any connection.
  • 1945 issue of Modern Castings, the journal of the American Foundrymen's Society, lists, under Ontario Chapter, "Alfred Serjeant, owner, Zenith Alloys Co., Brantford, Int."
  • 1948-49 Standard Metal Directory, page 467, in the category of Brantford foundries. "Zenith Alloys Co., Dundas St. E. / Inc. 1946. Cap. $50,000. A. Serjeant, Pres. / Equipment: 4 crucible furnaces, 1 electric furnace. / Products: Brass, bronze, and aluminum castings, bushings, patterns. / Consume: Scrap metals, cocks & faucets, lead pipe, old aluminum crank cases. Virgin aluminum, casting copper, antimonial lead, American refined tin, brass special zinc. Britannia metal, delta metal, bearing metal."
  • 1950 Standard Metal Directory, page 365, in the category of Brantford foundries. "Zenith Alloys Co., 13 Dundas St. E. / Equipment: 5 crucible furnaces, 1 electric furnace. / Products: Brass, bronze, and aluminum castings, bushings, patterns. / Consume: Scrap metals: Cocks & faucets, lead pipe, old aluminum crank cases. Virgin aluminum, casting copper, antimonial lead, American refined tin, brass special zinc. Britannia metal, delta metal, bearing metal."
  • May 1921 Canadian Foundryman page 23: Metal Foundries, Ltd., Brantford, capitalized at $40,000 to operate a jobbing iron foundry by Alfred Serjeant and initiator and superintendent, with J. A. MacDonald, W. H. Hamilton and Reg. Harley. January 1923 The Metal Industries page 45: The Brantford Brass Foundry, Ltd., Brantford, incorporated by D. L. Webster, Alfred Serjeant, and T. E. Hutton, with $100,000 capital. "This concern operates the following departments: brass, bronze and aluminum foundry, machine shop, grinding room, polishing and lacquering."
  • Findagrave.com page on Alfred Serjeant (1899-1951).
• My grandfather, who worked at Cockshutt Plow Co., a.k.a. Brantford Coach & Body, bought bandsaw castings from a patternmaker there who had made patterns and had them cast at the factory. My grandfather finished building the bandsaw. This could have been a prototype of this Zenith saw; it did not have any markings on the castings, and I do not have any photographs of it.
• Another Zenith bandsaw is reported but this one, located in Italy, is likely unrelated.