Nordyke Marmon & Company

Nordyke Marmon & Company was a mill Construction in Indianapolis (Indiana).

The company's history begins in 1851, when the Nordyke, Ham & Company in a small workshop in Richmond ( Indiana) started manufacturing of pulverizers. Previously had Ellis Nordyke, a noted millwright, built handmade grinding plants in Richmond. Buhr - millstones from France were introduced to the flour milling.

1858 Addison H. Nordyke and his father Ellison Nordyke got together and put forth flour mills. The company was called E. & AH Nordyke and there was only a small factory building behind the private home of Ellis Nordyke. This business was continued until 1866 so; then Daniel W. Marmon joined the company and its name was changed in Nordyke Marmon & Company. In 1870 the company was a major mill construction operations. Amos A. Hallowell joined the company in 1875 and remained until 1895.

Addison H. Nordyke remained active in the company until 1899 and was then until 1904 the owner and director. Daniel W. Marmon remained until his death in 1909 in the company.

1875 moved Nordyke Marmon & Company of Indianapolis, because she found better production facilities and improved transport links there. 1876 ​​you bought the " Quaker City Works" in West Indianapolis, then to the Indianapolis & Vincennes Railroad and the Belt Railroads. At this location, the company continued to grow and became the largest millwright of the United States.

Nordyke Marmon exported its machines to Canada, Mexico, Central and South America and paid all the flour, grain, corn, starch and rice mills and elevators provided. The company introduced rolling mills, pin mills, packing plants, mixers, and manufactures machines for the processing of rice, corn and starch and special machines.

The Marmon - sons who now Nordyke Marmon led, automobiles available with in the late 19th and early 20th century were not satisfied. Therefore, in 1902 they built a luxury car that met their expectations. Howard Marmon founded the Marmon Motor Car Company and built cars best quality and reliability. The business was sold in 1926 for mills at Allis -Chalmers.

External links and sources

  • A Brief History of The Nordyke & Marmon Company ( English)
  • Marmon Motor Car Company ( English) ( version of 30 May 2008 on the Internet Archive )
  • Company (Indianapolis )
  • Mill technology
  • Former company (United States)
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