Oldbury Electro-Chemical

These two companies—the American Synthetic Color Company and the Oldbury Electro Chemical Company—exhibited many characteristics typical of the firms receiving war gas contracts. Few firms were large, well-known producers most had in-house or academic consulting chemists with close contacts to either the NRC or Bureau of Mines and many were also venturing for the first time into synthetic dyes production. Rarely did experience and expertise run deeply, but these had... 

Historical Sketch of Experimental Plant Leased by the Government from Oldbury Electro Chemical Co. [fragment] enclosed in McPherson, op. cit. note 70 NARA, RG 175, Entry 8, Box 14, Engineering Bureau to Control Bureau, Experimental Plant of Oldbury Electro-Chemical Co., Niagara Falls, NY, for Temporary and Immediate Manufacture of L-3 , 20 February 1918. op. cit. notes 64 and 65. 

Niagara Falls, N.Y Oldbury Electro-Chemical Co. Dow Chemical Co. 

McPherson, Report of the Director of Outside Plants, Enclosure 7 (Niagara Falls), pp. 1-7, and attached letters, E. J. W. Ragsdale to F. A. Lidbury, Oldbury Electro-Chemical Company, August 4, 1917, and Ragsdale to Captain Hamilton, September 22, 1917, NARA, RG 175, entry 8, box 14. For the quote, see Ragsdale testimony in Senate Committee on Finance, Hearings, Tariff Act of 1921 (1922), 752. 

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