By 1945, the company had built 4.5 million bombs, 16,750 sets of landing gear, and 46,700 propeller blades. In 1942, it once again began to produce bomb casings, as well as aircraft propellers, undercarriages, torpedoes, and air flasks. In 1940, the company acquired Sawyer Electric of Los Angeles, California, a manufacturer of electric motors. Three years later, they began mass-producing residential water heaters, but shifted all production to war-time use during World War II. In 1936, the company patented the glass-lined water heater. Over the next 32 years, they made more than 11,000 glass-lined tanks. In 1933, the company used the process of fusing glass to steel to make a large single-piece glass-lined brewery tank. In the 1920s, company engineers developed the coated welding rod which they used in manufacturing until 1965, as well as the world's first fully automated automobile frame factory, with the capability of making a frame every eight seconds, until 1958, the first arc-welded, high-pressure vessel used to refine oil, which the company produced until 1963, and oil supply line pipes, until 1972.ĭuring the Great Depression, the company was said to have excluded Blacks from applying for employment in Milwaukee because 'the company 'never did and didn't intend to employ Negroes.'' Smith was incorporated in New York, and in 1917, they began manufacturing bomb casings for World War I. In 1913, Lloyd Raymond Smith took over, and in 1914, the company introduced the Smith Motor Wheel, a gasoline-powered device for bicycles and in 1915, they began manufacturing the Smith Flyer, which they later sold to Briggs & Stratton Company of Milwaukee. In 1904, the company incorporated in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, as A. In 1899, Arthur Oliver Smith, a son of the founder, developed the world's first pressed steel vehicle frame and they later began making frames for the Peerless Automobile Company, Cadillac, and Ford Motor Company. By 1895, the company was the largest bicycle parts manufacturer.

They began forming steel tubing from sheet metal to make bicycle frames. Smith and Sons, a baby carriage and bicycle parts manufacturer.

Smith Corporation was founded in 1874 by Charles Jeremiah Smith as C.

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