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1889 Article-Providence Machinery Agency-Dexter Engine Lathe |
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The Industrial Advantages of Providence, 1889, pgs. 81-82 |
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9/26/2023 10:47:46 PM |
A. B. PITKIN,
The Providence Machinery Agency, 4 to 12 Cove Street, and 28 to 32 Eddy Street.
The most important enterprise of the kind in Providence, as well as one of the largest in New England, is the Providence Machinery Agency, conducted since 1879 by Mr. A. B. Pitkin. This machinery depot is also the oldest concern of the kind in the United States, having been instituted in 1854, at Hartford, Conn., by John W. Boynton. In 1884 the business was removed to this city. The house handles all kinds of new and second-hand machinery, steam engines and boilers, mill and machine shop supplies, and makes a specialty of cotton and woolen machinery.
The manufacture of the "Dexter" screw cutting engine lathe, a cut of which accompanies this article, is also an important feature of the business. Besides the extensive premises at the above address, which are the headquarters of the house, two large store houses located elsewhere are also utilized, and there is hardly an article in the way of new or second-hand machinery that this house cannot supply, and frequently at rates immeasurably less than the same mechanism could be procured for from the original makers. All machinery sold is first put in complete running order and is tested, and new machinery is sold at manufacturers lowest prices. The system and order maintained in the incongruous stock carried at the warerooms are matters that will strike the observer. Although machinery for all purposes, engines, boilers, pulleys and shaftings completely fill the show rooms, and overflow onto the sidewalk, still everything is so arranged that their uses can be immediately determined and shown to customers. In fact, this establishment is the only one that has ever come under the writers' notice, that did not impress him with the idea that he had at last entered upon Dicken's "Old Curiosity Shop." Mr. Pitkin is an expert with regard to mechanism, and his long experience in the trade has given his house a reputation that extends to all parts of the United States, and no house of the kind in the country is better equipped to supply the demands of manufacturers than is the Providence Machinery Agency. |
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1889 Providence Machinery Agency-Dexter Engine Lathe
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