Located on Tecumseh Rd. just east of Howard Ave. this massive plant is another part of Windsor’s long gone industrial might, replaced by the Medical Building, that runs from Hanna to Tecumseh Road.
A quick check on the Google, shows the company is still around today, in Benton Harbor, MI.
The ad above dates to the early 1960’s. Does anyone out there remember the company or have any relatives that worked there? Any idea when it left town?
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I worked at the Hartford Michigan Plant in 1973/74. The Main plant at the time was in Benton Harbor/St Joseph Michigan. I know at one time there was a plant in Canada. The Hartford Plant at that time made bottle jack parts, garden tractor brakes, a brake used for a cherry picker arm (Nu-Way Brake), and I beleive a brake that was used on an older US fighter jet. The Hartford plant had on display some samples of bomb shell casings etc. that AUSCO made during World War II for the US govenment.
Dear Sirs. I have to found a jack, Auto Spec Mfg. Co., St. Joesph Mich, DREDNAUT, No. 961, Sj. 1243. I would like any info. you have on this jack, Iss in very good shape, even down to the pin and chain on the top U shape bracket on the top of it!
Thank you, Kirk Davis
I have a double box end wrench with "DREDNAUT" on one side and "ST JOSEPH MICH" on the other. No other markings. Is it for the Drednaut jack? Anything special about this old wrench? It is 6" long.
David
So glad to see this! My grandfather worked here for about four decades. He and Grandma lived on Marentette Avenue, right behind the foundry. I remember often going out their back yard and across the alley to the fence and having him hand me a small apple pie (did they have a cafeteria? I'm guessing that's where he bought it) when I was visiting. When I stayed overnight I'd hear the trains shunting throughout the night. The smoke from the coal-fired furnaces drove my grandmother nuts because she liked to hang her laundry outside (except in the dead of winter) and of course a certain amount of very fine coal dust drifted around the neighbourhood. Grandpa was there, working at a variety of jobs, until the plant closed in the 1970s.