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Newsletter of
The Samuel Knight Chapter
of the Society for Industrial
Archæology
Issue number 3
October 7, 1997
Next meeting - October 25,
1997.....................................1
Contact
information......................................................3
Lunch at the Alameda Point Ferry Terminal of the
South Pacific
Coast Railroad....................................3
A Short History of the Alameda
Moles...........................7
The View From the Bay: San Francisco Maritime
Heritage Boat
Tour.................................................13
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Our next tour will be of
The Iron Man Museum of the Joshua Hendy Iron
Works at the Lockheed Martin (formerly Westinghouse) Marine
Division
on October 25 at 10:30am. Founded in San Francisco in
1856, the Joshua
Hendy Iron Works produced mining equipment used all over
the world,
from Alaska to Africa. The Iron Works also produced a wide
variety of
heavy machinery and ornamental castings. Following the destruction of
Hendy's San Francisco shops in the 1906 earthquake, the
company
acquired property in Sunnyvale and rebuilt. The Hendy Iron
Works
assumed criticalroles in the war efforts of both World War I and World
War II. Westinghouse purchased the Iron Works in 1947.
Westinghouse
Marine Systems was acquired by Northrop Grumman in March,
1996, and
this enterprise was in turn acquired by Lockheed Martin.
The Joshua Hendy Iron Works was proclaimed a National
Historical
Mechanical Engineering Monument in 1978. Artifacts and
memorabilia
from throughout the history of the Iron Works and the
Westinghouse
Marine Division are displayed in the Iron Man Museum.
The museum is located in Building 71 of the Marine Division
on Hendy
Avenue in Sunnyvale. The telephone number at the museum is
408 735
2020.
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