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Lakewood Engineering Company, 1919-1932 and n. d. | Historical Construction Equipment Association

By Thomas Berry

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Group 1: Machinery records, 1919-1932 and n. d.

Series 1: Sales literature, 1919-1932 and n. d.

Subseries 1: Judd Griffith Collection, 1919-1932 and n. d.

Folder 1: General product line, 1920

Item 1: Bulletin No. 29D, 1920

Lakewood Engineering sales literature: Catalog and spec sheet discusses batch car, batch box, form-riding concrete finisher, prefabricated railroad track, Batch Transfer boom for lifting batch box to dry batch paver, subgrader, Lakewood-Universal and Lakewood-Milwaukee portable concrete mixer, narrow gauge flatcar, clamshell bucket, tunnel reclamation system to load batch cars from stockpiles, M-C Grout Mixer grouter for brick pavement, and Lakewood-Milwaukee 14E dry batch paver, steam engine, Road Pumping Plant tandem water pump. Also has technical reference, extensively discussing concrete paving technique, including sample batch plant layout and comparison of hand charging to batch cars for charging dry batch paver.

Folder 2: Forklift, c. 1920

Lakewood Engineering sales literature: Catalog and spec sheet discusses 703 and 703A Tier-Lift compact forklift.

Folder 3: Clamshell buckets, 1919-1928

Lakewood Engineering sales literature: Catalog, brochure and spec sheet discusses clamshell bucket. Photograph subjects include working views of buckets and plant interior. Form 77753-2-21 photograph subjects include Link-Belt cantilever crane unloading barge at Philadelphia Electric Company Chester, Pennsylvania plant; Clyde Iron Works Traction Crane steam traction crane, Manhattan State Hospital, Ward’s Island, New York; Universal Crane, Erie Steam Shovel Company (Ball Engine Company), Little Giant Crane & Shovel and Lincoln steam traction crane; Cleveland Crane ship unloader, Barber Asphalt Paving Company; Northwest Engineering and Victor R. Browning Company – Browning Crane crawler crane; Industrial Crane (sic – Industrial Works?) steam locomotive crane, Pollock Steel Company, Cincinnati, Ohio; Thew Shovel Company steam locomotive crane; and unidentified whirley crane. Photograph subjects in unnumbered brochure dated Oct 1928 include unidentified steam locomotive crane owned by Bates & Rogers Construction Company.

Folder 4: Concrete mixers, 1921-1929 and n. d.

Lakewood Engineering sales literature: Catalog, brochure and spec sheet discusses 7S, 10S, 14S and 21S portable concrete mixer and 21S, 28S, 56S and 70S stationary concrete mixer with steam, electric or gas engine power; Milwaukee steam engine; and Novo gas engine

Bulletin 20 photograph subjects include Elephant Butte Dam completed and under construction, showing cableway tower.

Bulletin 20-F photograph subjects include: C. S. Johnson batch bin with Lakewood mixer charging concrete bucket on bucket car; mixer charging concrete cart, two views; construction view of Lake Pleasant Dam, Arizona, showing concrete tower and concrete chute system; Stone & Webster operations, Cathedral of Learning, University of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania; Foundation Company 47S mixer; Marshall Field Garden Apartments, Chicago, Illinois; 7S mixers loaded out on flatcar in factory; concrete tower and concrete chute, Otis Steel Company; Ready Mix Concrete batch plant installation; and central mix plant charging dump truck, Cleveland Trinidad Company.

Bulletin 21-C (indexed for 21-B) and 21-D photograph subjects include construction views of: Housing, Fore River Shipyard, Quincy, Massachusetts; Liberal Arts Building, Wellesley College; Temple Baptist Church, Mount Oliver, Pennsylvania; New York Connecting Railway; and Overland Motor Car Company, Quincy, Massachusetts. 

Bulletin 20 is mutilated and cites Milwaukee trade name; bulletins 20C and up use Lakewood-Milwaukee name, and 21C and 21D show a Lakewood-Universal 7S mixer.

Folder 5: Concrete placing equipment, 1929-1930 and n. d.

Lakewood Engineering sales literature: Catalog, spec sheet, mailer and loose page discuss concrete tower, concrete chute and concrete hopper. Bulletin 23-F photograph subjects include: Plant operated by Hunkin-Conkey Construction Company, Foundation Company of New York, Frazier-Davis Company and Morton C. Tuttle Company; construction of unidentified dam by Southern California Edison; construction view of Lake Pleasant Dam, Arizona; Lake Cushman Dam, built by A. Guthrie & Company; Gilboa Dam, New York Water Supply System; and barge-mounted batch plant, guy derrick and tremie, pouring bridge piers. 23-f also includes numerous dimensioned drawing reproduced from blueprints.

Folder 6: Subgraders, 1927-1931

Lakewood Engineering sales literature: Brochure, spec sheet and flier discuss subgrader, Pennsylvania Standard subgrade tester and Graderooter pull scarifier.

Folder 7: Dry batch pavers, n. d.

Lakewood Engineering sales literature: Brochure and spec sheet discuss Milwaukee 7E, 10E and 14E dry batch paver, Milwaukee steam engine and Novo gas engine. Photograph subjects include railroad mounting.

Folder 8: Finishers, 1930-1931 and n. d.

Lakewood Engineering sales literature: Catalog, brochure and spec sheet discuss Model C and unidentified Finishing machine form-riding concrete finisher and asphalt finisher, hand float, Floatbridge work bridge, subgrader, Graderooter pull scarifier, paving form; curb and gutter form; Pennsylvania Standard subgrade tester, form tamper, narrow gauge batch car and batch box, Jaeger Triplex high-pressure pump, and New Way Motor Company 5 hp gas engine. Photograph subjects in Bulletin 47-D include: Paving of Mobile Bay Bridge deck, Mobile, Alabama; paving beside street car track; paving the floor of Highland Reservoir, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania; highway paving with tandem 32E dry batch paver; paving at Yosemite National Park, California; 27 foot finisher owned by Cleveland Trinidad Company; sand asphalt finishing; and asphalt concrete paving, Heafey-Moore Company. Photograph subjects in Bulletin 47-E include application of sand asphalt, asphalt concrete, sheet asphalt, Warrenite and amiesite, finisher set up for California asphalt paving, and diagrams of form arrangements for asphalt paving.

Folder 9: Miscellaneous equipment, 1928-1931 and n. d.

Lakewood Engineering sales literature: Brochure, flier and spec sheet discuss Carr and Lakewood Duo-Rail paving form, Water Regulator water meter for concrete mixer, 255 batch car, batch box, Floatbridge work bridge, Longitudinal Roller roller finisher; and hydraulic screed lift for concrete finisher.

Folder 10: Price pages and miscellaneous, 1922-1932

Lakewood Engineering sales literature: Price page discusses clamshell bucket, and conversion of model C form-riding concrete finisher from single to tandem screed and tamper; sales training letter discusses comparative spec sheet and features of Ord finisher.

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