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THE McMYLER - INTERSTATE COMPANY BEDFORD OHIO
1912 STEAM PILE DRIVER
AND TENDER
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The McMyler-Interstate Company covered 43 acres of land, including 50 buildings with
400,000 square feet of manufacturing floor space.
The Company was the result of a consolidation of four companies:
The Excelsior Iron Works, dating back to the 1870's;
The McMyler Manufacturing Co., dating back to the 1880's;
Kaltenbach & Griess, Consulting and Contracting Engineers, formed in 1897;
The Interstate Engineering Co., organiged in 1902
The McMyler-Interstate Company was organized in 1910, thus bringing together engineering
and manufacturing talent for the design and manufacture of large crane and material
handling equipment.
A page from the The McMyler-Interstate Company catalog lists the following products designed and manufactured by the company: Steam Crawler Shovels, Gas Crawler Shovels, Electric Crawler Shovels, Steam Crawler Cranes, Gas Crawler Cranes, Electric Crawler Cranes, Steam Locomotive Cranes, Gas Locomotive Cranes, Electric Locomotive Cranes, Barge Fueling Cranes, Special and Broad Gauge Cranes, Stationary Revolving Cranes, Dry Dock Cranes, Pintle Cranes, Shipbuilding Cranes, Cantilever Cranes, Revolving Gantry Cranes, Portal Gantry Cranes, Semi-Portal Gantry Cranes, Roof Type Cargo Cranes, Trolley Type Gantry Cranes, Hammer Head Cranes, Jib Boom Cranes, Coal Handling Bridges, Oar Handling Bridges, Drag Line Buckets, Clam Shell Buckets, Orange Peal Buckets, Fogarty Buckets, Special Large Capacity Buckets, Stone Skips, Car Haulage Machines, Elevating Car Dumpers, Rolling Car Dumpers, Rotary Car Dumpers, Unloading Towers, Coaling Towers, Fast Plants, Special Material Handling Plants, Box Car Unloaders, Skip Hoists, Man Trolleys Gear Blanks, Commercial Machine Work, Turntables, Transfer Tables, Pressed Steel Platforms, Trimming Machinery, Rubber Manufacturing Machines, Mixing Aprons, Tubocol Machinery, Tubular Fuel Plants, Structural Steel (Fabricated), Sand Bins, Screening Towers, Structural Hoppers, Mico-Iron Castings, Hammered and Pressed Forgings, R. R. Switch Stands |