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H. Jørgensens Kemiske Fabriker (H. Jørgensen’s Chemical Factories) was a chemical factory in Copenhagen Denmark. In 1928 it was owned by H. Jørgensen, and based at Vesterbrogade 57 in Copenhagen THey produced Amyl Acetate, Amyl Alcohol, Ferrum Reductum, Hiozin Nursery Powder, Ethyl Chloride etc. Known products Hiozin was a children’s powder
Burmeister & Wain, who began as Baumgarten & Burmeister in 1846 was Denmarks largest shipyard and diesel engine factory. B&W as they also went by, delivered their first steamengine af two years, and again their first ship 7 years later. In 1961 Baumgarten left the company, and William Wain took over his role. At the […]
Ruston & Hornsby was established on the September 11th, 1918, when the to companies “Ruston, Proctor and Company” merged with “Richard Hornsby & Sons”. Aero engines 3.000 aero engines were manufactured at the factory during WWI Aeroplanes During the first world war, Ruston & Hornsby was Britain’s largest manufacturer of Sopwith Camel biplanes for the […]
Corona Fahrradwerke und Metallindustrie was established by Adolf Schmidt in 1891 The Corona factory produced cars between 1905 and 1909, manufactured under license from the Maurer-Union factory. In 1908 they began building a Coronamobil, a 3 wheeled tricycle powered by a 1 or 2 cylindre engine. Liquidated in 1932
Alexander Stephen & Sons was a shipyard based in Glasgow, Scotland. They built a long row of vessels, ranging from cargo ships to trans Atlantic ocean liners. Established in 1750. Vessels built by Alexander Stephen & Sons Oscar II – 1901 Hull number 393 Trans-atlantic ocean liner built for the Danish steamship company Scandinavian America […]
Scandinavian America Line (in Scandinavia “Skandinavien-Amerika Linien”) was a Danish steamship company, owned and run by DFDS “Det Forenede Dampskibs-Selskab” (Loosely translated: The United Steamship-Company in Danish) The company originated as the Thingvalla Line, the first steamship company in Denmark, to transport emigrants directly from Denmark to America.DFDS bought the company in 1898. Scandinavian America […]
Assicurazioni Generali is an insurance company, that was established in 1831 in Trieste, that then was a part of the Austrian Empire. Today it’s the largest insurance company, but is also represented in other countries, som who also were a part of the Austrian and Austro-hungarian empires. The Jewish controversy A controversy after the second […]
The engine factory Bukh was established by Jens Bukh and Johannes Gry, in the Danish town Hørve in 1904. After WWII they began manufacturing tractors. They began with manufacturing stationary diesel engines for industrial and farming purposes. In 1915 the factory was moved to the port city Kalundborg, where they became neighbours to Kalundborg Boatyard.They […]
Nicolai Niemann Blumensaadts soap factory made a lot of different Hygiene products, and established his soap company in 1835. They had a series of bathroom soaps, one of them called the “711 Toiletsoap” The company was in 1957 merged with competitor H. C. Møller, into the new company Blumøller.
The Blue Bird Body Company was established in 1932 in Fort Valley, Georgia, but started a few years earlier, in the Perry, Georgia Ford Dealership, where Albert Luce sold a Ford T with a wooden bus body to a customer in 1925. Unfortunately the bus wasn’t built for the rural roads in Georgia, so it […]
