Machine Department at Mesta Machine Company

1905/1925

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Machine Department at Mesta Machine Company
  • Title
  • Machine Department at Mesta Machine Company
  • Identifier
  • MSP210.B010.I08
  • Source Identifier
  • MSP210.B010.I08
  • Description
  • The Mesta Machine Company’s Machine Department housed a total of five aisles. The first three aisles, all totaling 1000 feet in length, included one main aisle at 60 feet wide, one aisle at 40 feet wide, and one aisle at 25 feet wide. Two other aisles, each 460 feet in length, included one at 60 feet wide and the last one at 20 feet wide. The buildings of the Machine Department were constructed of steel and concrete and were equipped with large overhead cranes ranging in capacity from 5 to 100 tons. All the aisles accommodated large machine tools such as planers, boring mills, lathes, pit lathes, gear cutters, boring mills, draw-cut shapers, drill presses, and specialized boring machines, all of which were used for processing heavy castings. Specially designed horizontal drilling machines and power reamers for drilling and reaming of flanged shafting, and a centering table for centering and laying off the rough forging were also available in this department.
  • Genre
  • photographs
  • Subject
  • Mesta Machine Company (West Homestead, Pa.).Machine Department.
    Steel industry and trade--Pennsylvania--West Homestead.
  • Source
  • Mesta Machine Company Photographs, 1906-1925, MSP 210, Library and Archives Division, Senator John Heinz History Center
  • Contributor
  • Detre Library & Archives, Heinz History Center
  • Collection
  • Mesta Machine Company Photographs
  • Rights Information
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