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...affiliated with the du Pont interests. Although the merged companies will control more than half of the industry's capacity, they will not lack formidable competition Much of it will come from powerful-privately-held Michigan Alkali Co., a rich concern belonging chiefly to John Ford of Detroit (Libbey-Owens-Ford Glass Co.) and making its solid CO 2 under Belgian Patents...
Five years ago Triplex Safety Glass Co., Ltd. of Great Britain organized an affiliate in the U. S. Last week the U. S. company planned to sell its patent rights, also most of its assets, to Libbey-Owens-Ford Glass Co. for L-O-F stock worth about $170,000 plus $25,000 cash to pay for liquidation, plus an unstated sum for some of the Triplex inventory. The large Triplex plant at Clifton, N. J., will be resold to Pittsburgh Plate Glass Co. which will be given manufacturing licenses, will share Triplex's big Ford windshield contract with...
Another recent Libbey-Owens-Ford buy was the glass division of General Motors, resulting in Libbey-Owens-Ford getting a seven-year G-M contract (TIME, June...
...Glass. Potent in many lines of industry in addition to automobiles, last week General Motors Corp. retired from the glassmaking business. For a reputed sum of $9,000,000 G-M sold its subsidiary, National Plate Glass Co. to big Libbey-Owens-Ford Glass Co. (unconnected with Ford Motor Co.). Said L-O-F President John D. Biggers, "We have been working on these negotiations for five months and are all very happy." For the next seven years the bulk of glass used by General Motors will be bought from Libbey-Owens-Ford, a contract probably involving over...
...blew, until he grew tired of blowing. In 1889 he stopped blowing, started thinking. Thirteen years of thought produced in 1902 the Owens Bottle Machine, as epochal in glass manufacture as the cotton gin was in the cotton industry. He patented his machine and, in partnership with Edward Drummond Libbey, started making bottles in a one-story frame building in Toledo, Ohio. Since they had patents on the only bottle-making machine in existence, they prospered. The Owens Bottle Co. of Toledo, has long been the largest bottle manufacturer in the world. Its absorption of the Illinois Glass Co. last...