A. O. Austin resigns to start consulting business

Arthur O. Austin has resigned as vice-president of The Ohio Insulator Company, division of The Ohio Brass Company, Mansfield, Ohio, to establish a practice of consulting engineering, with headquarters at Barberton, Ohio. He intends to specialize in engineering work in connection with transmission and distribution of electrical energy for power and radio purposes. The Ohio Brass Company has engaged his services in a consulting capacity, and he will also serve as a consulting engineer for several other firms. Mr. Austin was graduated from Leland-Stanford University in 1903. Serving about a year with the General Electric Company he then went with the Pacific Gas & Electric Company, coming east as an insulator inspector shortly after his employ. In 1905, he became associated with the manufacture of insulators, with the Lima Insulator Company. The plant of this company was destroyed by fire in 1907. Mr. Austin the joined the Akron High-Potential Porcelain Company, Barberton, Ohio. The latter company was purchased by The Ohio Brass Company in 1910, and was reorganized under the name of The Ohio Insulator Company. He has been with this company since that time.