Dixon sells factory, Croskey insulator machines used there

DIXON SELLS OUT AT CARNEGIE

Glass House Equipment Plant Passes

Into Hands of a Steel Company

The Furnace Building Firm is Now

Seeking a New Location for

Occupancy After November First

During the past week a deal was concluded between the H. L. Dixon Co., and the Superior Steel Co. whereby the plant of the first named company, located at Carnegie, Pa., became the property of the steel company which will take possession on November first of this year. This site was purchased by the H. L. Dixon Co. in 1902 and on it is erected an experimental glass plant, a large machine shop, and a foundry, the machine shop and foundry being utilized for making equipments used by the company in construction of glass factories. The experimental glass plant has been at the disposal of inventors and others who have utilized it, under a rental arrangement, for experimental purposes and the testing of new appliances, the most recent use to which it was put being the development of insulator patents which were receiving the attention of the late John H. Croskey at the time of his death. The Dixon company's reason for selling was two fold; in the first place it was a case of a cash transaction, the amount of money involved being largely in excess of what was paid for the property and equipment, and in the second place, while the location was all that could be desired so far as natural advantages were concerned, by reason of its difficulty to access it was not entirely satisfactory to the selling company, the means for getting to and from the property being anything but advantageous. On the other hand it flanked the works of the purchasing company which will be able to utilize the space to great advantage in the operation of its works.

The Dixon company will retain possession of the property until the first of November, and in the meantime a new site will be looked up onto which its works will be transferred, and in addition the offices of the company will ultimately be moved to the point where materials and appliances are manufactured. This is a move which the company has for a long time had in contemplation, but the taking of the offices to the Carnegie plant was out of the question because of the difficulty experienced in getting to and from that place.