CALIFORNIA BRICKS
Brand name: LAPBCo(3 stars)
Company: Los Angeles Pressed Brick Company.
Location: Office at 406-414 Frost Bldg., Second and Broadway, Los Angeles, CA. Plant No. 4 at Alberhill, Riverside County, CA.
Years: 1916-1925
Type: Fire brick
Description: Abbreviated company name impressed on the face with three star symbols beneath the name.
Equipment: Dry pans, stiff-mud machine, repress machine, 12 round, down-draft kilns.
Deposit: Alberhill fire clay deposit 20 ft. thick, overlain by 10 ft. of blue clay and some reddish plastic clay.
Main and Sloan pits.
Comments: Merged with Gladding, McBean and Company in 1926
Source: California State Mining Bureau Bulletin 99, 1928, p. 101; California State Mining Bureau
Report 15, 1917, p. 494; Architect and Engineer, v. 28, no. 1, November 1909, p. 14; Architect and Engineer, v. 28, no. 2,
December 1909, p. 108-109; Brick and Clay Record, 1916, v. 49, no. 11, p. 1010..
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