American Wringer Company
1891 - c.1950
The American Wringer Company was incorporated under Rhode Island laws in 1891, a consolidation of the Empire Wringer Co., New York; the Metropolitan Mfg. Co., New York; the F. F. Adams Co., Pennsylvania; and the Bailey Wringing Machine Co., Rhode Island. The company manufactured clothes wringers, rubber rolls, mangles, etc. Its factories were located at Woonsocket, Rhode Island, and Auburn, New York.
[The Bailey Wringing Machine Company was known earlier as the Bailey Washing and Wringing Machine Company.]
Source for above: The charter and by-laws of the American Wringer Company, and Moody's Manual of Investments: American and Foreign Transportation, 1917 (see references).
<i>Moody's Manual of Investments: American and Foreign: Transportation</i> (New York: Moody's Investors Service, 1917), 8: 860.
William Thomas Davis, ed., <i>The New England States: Their Constitutional, Judicial, Educational, Commercial, Professional and Industrial History</i> (D.H. Hurd & Co., 1897), chap. 31, "The India-Rubber Industry in New England," pp. 342-353, see 346.
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American Wringer Company, Providence, RI, Charter and By-Laws, March 1891, 11 pp.
[available at the Brown University Library, OCLC no. 23156456]