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A street sign for Brake Shoe Place
Brake Shoe place, a street at the very edge of the West Mahwah Neighborhood
A Union Dispute is Settled in 1953
Representatives from American Brake Shoe and Union representatives agree to end a strike.
ABEX Metallurgy Lab, Testing Specific Gravity.
Jean Reily, Testing Specific Gravity at the ABEX Metallurgy Lab.
American Brake Shoe Private Wire number 9
An issue of the Entertainment magazine of "Private Wire".
Contains the image of Ernest Busch cleaning molds with air
Contains the image of Ernest Busch cleaning molds with air
Brake Shoe Employees
Employees of the American Brake Shoe and Foundry who participated in the research and development of the Atomic Bomb.
Brake Shoe Lab
The Sand Laboratory at Mahwah regularly tested such characteristics as permiability, green strength, dry strength, effect of binders and moisture in the many types of sand used (Brake Shoe Foundries).
Brake Shoe Lab Building, 2017
Exterior shot of the Brake Shoe Laboratory building, present day.
Brake Shoe Lab exterior in the 1930s
Exterior view of the American Brake Shoe Metallurgical Laboratory, mid 1930s.
Development of Automatic welding using alloy weld rods.
RC. Development of Automatic welding using alloy weld rods. Bud Satteriee. 1948-1950.
Ernest Busch and Frank Gannon molding a melting pot
The mold is broken into two sections and the pattern removed
Ernest Busch cleaning a mold
This is a company photo of Ernest Busch cleaning a sand casting mold with an air hose.
F.S. Lincoln photo stamp
The stamp the F.S. Lincoln used on the Brakeshoe Company photos he took
Frank Gannon creating a mold for sand casting
Frank Gannon is taking the first step in making centrifugal casting core with Osborn jolt-rockover molding machine. The sand carefully mixed with core oils and cereal binder is packed tightly into the pattern
Frank Gannon safety hood
Comapny photo of Frank Gannon placing melting pot molds under safety hood at American Brake shoe.
Frank Gannon smoothing sand
Frank Ganon is pictured smoothing the sand in order to pack the sand into the mold
Howard Avery Tensile Testing with Extensometer.
The famous ABEX inventor Howard Avery. Owner of at least 10 patents related to the Brake Shoe, metallurgy, and welding. His inventions were important for ABEX and the industry. He was also an outspoken member of the local Board of Education, and a…
Howard S. Avery
A portrait of Howard Avery
Maps of Brakeshoe
These are maps of the Brakeshoe factory produced by Sanborn insurance. It was drafted in 1925 but was updated until 1951. Their are also various closeups of the maps for more detail.
Maps of Brakeshoe
These are maps of the Brakeshoe factory produced by Sanborn insurance. It was drafted in 1925 but was updated until 1951. Their are also various closeups of the maps for more detail.