Trundle Engineering Company album
Creation: 1930Abstract
The Trundle Engineering Company was an industrial engineering management consulting company based in Cleveland, Ohio. Clients would hire Trundle Engineering Company to perform studies on their organization or operating methods. One aspect of the business was the design and manufacture of custom machinery for increased efficiency. This album is a salesman sample photograph album providing an overview of inventions and technology developed by the Trundle Engineering Company. Machinery represented here includes spiral meat-cutting machine, matchbook cover book-cutting machine, traffic signal control boxes, spinning machine for making artificial silk, ice cream freezing machinery, remote control spotlight, and a golf ball center compression test machine.
Dates
- Creation: 1930
Creator
- Trundle Engineering Company (Organization)
Extent
1 volume(s) (Album in box)
Physical Description
1 album, leather ; 8.5 x 12 in. (closed) containing 149 photographic prints : b&w ; 8 x 10 in. on linen backing. 3 cyanotypes with a photographic index.
Historical Note
The Trundle Engineering Company was an industrial engineering management consulting company based in Cleveland, Ohio. Clients would hire Trundle Engineering Company to perform studies on their organization or operating methods. In an advertisement published in a 1921 issue of Factory and Industrial Management magazine, the Trundle Engineering Company states, "We design and build automatic and semi-automatic tools, analyze products, schedule operations, standardize products, and perfect inventions. Make use of us to make money for you!"
The company was founded in 1919 by engineer, inventor, and business theorist George Thomas Trundle Jr. (1884–1954). Trundle was born in Bakerton, West Virginia, in 1884, son of George T. Trundle Sr. (1846-1934) and Georgianna Moler Trundle (1852-1929). In 1902, he moved to Cleveland, Ohio, and began his career as an engineer. He worked for the American Multigraph Company, eventually becoming chief engineer before leaving to form his own business.
He was the president of the Trundle Engineering Company until 1953, when his son, Robert C. Trundle (1913-1994, became president. He remained chairman of the board until his death.
Trundle holds several patents and wrote articles on business management. He was the recipient of the 1937 Taylor Key award, which is among the highest honors from the Society for Advancement of Management.
Arrangement
The album is listed in order of appearence, which is in reverse order from the index. The "page" numbers correspond to the photographic number listed in the index, which is written on the backs of the photographs. A few photographs are out of order, and there are forty photographs that are missing from the album.
Scope and Contents
This album is a salesman sample photograph album providing an overview of inventions and technology developed by the Trundle Engineering Company. Machinery represented here includes spiral meat-cutting machine, matchbook cover book-cutting machine, traffic signal control boxes, spinning machine for making artificial silk, ice cream freezing machinery, remote control spotlight, and a golf ball center compression test machine. The company developed several machines for rolling gumballs, a transfer unit for gumballs, a machine for sizing chewing gum sticks before balling, a gumball-counting machine, and a machine for stamping logos and writing on gumballs. There are images for a bottling plant escalator, allowing empty and full bottles on the production line to pass over machinery, workers, and other obstacles in the factory; a portable cement floor mixing machine; and a "projectorgraph" which served as an overhead projector/enlarger, fitted on tracks so that precise enlargements and projections could be made for printing reproduction processes.
Access Restrictions
This collection is open for research.
Language of Materials
English
Subjects
Finding Aid & Administrative Information
- Title:
- Trundle Engineering Company album
- Author:
- Laurie Sather
- Date:
- 2021
- Description rules:
- Describing Archives: A Content Standard
- Language of description:
- English
- Script of description:
- Latin
Repository Details
Repository Details
Part of the Audiovisual Collections Repository
