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Clausing Industrial company history timeline

1911

In 1911, the company that would one day become Clausing Industrial, Inc. was founded.

1925

At the time that Paul and Hilda were married (Christmas 1925) the Monarch Company moved to Waterloo, Iowa.

1928

Paul Clausing at work on his South Bend lathe, 1928.

1935

On January 30, 1935 Hilda wrote "Figuring bills.

1936

These lathes were woodturning lathes but sales of them were very small and there was, as yet, no sign of the metal-turning lathes that Paul had set out to make.On June 8, 1936 the first metal-turning, screw-cutting lathe was shipped.

1937

There is a diary entry for December 3, 1937 that Paul ordered Timken bearings for the lathes.

1938

The primary product was the grinder that had first gone into production in 1938.

1939

In September 1939 eleven lathes were shipped - this might have been a new monthly high.

1940

5. The first one was shipped May 17, 1940.

The factory had just been expanded in 1940, but that was now inadequate.

1941

Mary had started in June 1941.

1942

There is a diary entry that Mary and Abbie went to Chicago on vacation together in August 1942.

1945

The only remaining investors, besides Paul and Hilda Clausing, were Gus and Martha Bischoff in Milwaukee.Meanwhile, the factory building was proving inadequate for the larger company and in May 1945 a site was purchased on the bank of the Des Moines River, across from the Irving elementary school.

1946

Later Roy Kirk and Fred Sutton were made foremen.In 1946 both Mary Dayton and Abbie Martin left to be married.

1947

Continued:Post-war EraIn January 1947 the shipments were 133 lathes - the business continued to be a success.

1949

8) went into production; this machine represented a big advance being a very capable lathe with distinctive styling; it looked good and was capable of excellent work; the first one was shipped from the factory on March 31, 1949.

1951

In 1951 they invested a substantial fraction of their remaining proceeds in Atlas common stock.

1952

In the Fall of 1952 Keith Nelson transferred from Atlas-Clausing to work for Otto.Paul became, in essence, the office manager for the Atlas-Clausing, but he was not especially happy with that position for it had nothing to do with making better lathes, which had been his main motivation.

1973

Paul started to draw there, including a sketch of the Childhood Home, which he used more than half a century later as the basis upon which to paint the picture of the Childhood Home.Paul Clausing died in Ottumwa on March 15, 1973.

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