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ATLAS/POWER


Donated by Jack Bower

Brand name: ATLAS/POWER

Company: Atlas Fire Brick Company

Location: Office and plant at Boyle and Slauson avenues, Vernon, Los Angeles County, California

Years: 1926-1928

Type: Fire brick

Description: Brand name impressed on the face.

Equipment: Dry pans, pug mill, dry press machine, repress machine, gas-fired round downdraft kilns.

Deposit: Emsco white plastic fire clay, Riverside County, CA.

Comments: Merged with Emsco Refractories Company, South Gate, in 1928.

Source: California State Mining Bureau Bulletin 99, 1928, p. 97; Los Angeles City Directories, 1926-1928.

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