Image of Endless Bed Planer from an undated broadside

This company was created by the 1898 merger of the Hinckley & Egery Iron Co. and the Bangor Foundry & Machine Co., both makers of mill machinery. The new firm seems to have become best known for their snowplows, but they also made a line of moving-bed planers (also called endless-bed or travelling-bed or Farrar planers).

Information Sources

• Thanks to Robert Bernstein for sending us an undated advertising broadside from this company.
• From The City of Bangor: The Industries, Resources, Attractions and Business Life, published in 1899.

  Union Iron Works.

  By the consolidation of two important industries of this city, the Hinckley &Egery Iron Company and the Bangor Foundry & Machine Company, early in 1898, there was formed a concern of even greater importance to the city's welfare. This corporation is the Union Iron Works.

  Both the Hinckley & Egery Iron Company and the Bangor Foundry & Machine Company were long and firmly established industrial enterprises, both of them well equipped and doing a good business, but each naturally cutting to a more or less extent into the field of the other. By the consolidation of interests this competition was eliminated. Of course, heavier capital was available, and with the best of each establishment joined in one, together with the extensive improvements which the plant of the one-time Hinckley & Egery Iron Company underwent, gave the new concern a thoroughly modern and up-to-date equipment.

  Many extensive improvements and enlargements have been made in all departments of this immense plant, making it one of the finest in equipment in New England. The most northerly building in the plant of the concern is the store, which is entirely devoted to a complete line of mill supplies. In this line the company are the largest dealers in Eastern Maine, as well as being the leading manufacturers of general mill machinery.

  In all departments of the works perfect system is evident, and it is plain that in this day of progressive business enterprise, the company recognizes the fact that system is imperative wherever complete unison is desired in the successful operation of a large plant.

  The officers of the Union Iron Works are: President and Treasurer, Charles V. Lord; Manager, Charles A. Watters; Directors, Charles V. Lord, W. S. Whitman, H. P. Oliver, C. A. Gibson, E. M. Hersey, C. S. Lunt and L. C. Tyler.