In the 1880s and '90s the DuQuoin Iron Works manufactured, among other things, the Blakeslee line of veneer machinery. By 1901 that line was being made by the Blakeslee Company. By the 1920s the line was being made by American-Blakeslee Manufacturing Co.
Manufactured Gas Engines ca 1901
Information Sources
- Ad for Blakeslee Co.'s veneer machines in the January 1901 The Wood Worker.
- Ad for American-Blakeslee Manufacturing Co. in a 1922 issue of Package.
- The 1928 edition of Engineers ("Listing the Engineers of Corporations with Their Official Duties and Connections") lists this firm.
- Undated catalog of Blakeslee veneer cutting machines. "Manufacturers of veneer lathes — clippers — drag saws — knife grinders — presses — power hoists".
- American Gasoline Engines Since 1872 by C. H. Wendel, Volume #1, 1983 page 59
- The Complete Guide to Stationary Gas Engines by Mark Meincke, 1996 page 97