Bohn Aluminum and Brass Corporation

Bohn Aluminum and Brass Corporation was a manufacturing company based in Detroit, Michigan and formed in 1924 from the merger of the General Aluminium and Brass Company and the C.B. Bohn Foundry Company.[2] It produced a series of notable advertisements depicting applications of its product in futuristic environments.[3] It merged into Universal American Corporation in 1963.[4] Universal American merged into Gulf and Western Industries in 1966.[5] Gulf and Western later sold Bohn to the Wickes Companies. Wickes sold Bohn Aluminum and Brass to Norsk Hydro and its Heat Transfer Group division (which included Bohn Heat Transfer) to the Heatcraft subsidiary of Lennox International.[6]

Characteristic futuristic Bohn advertisement showing a streamlined ocean liner. Metal Progress, 1946.[1]

References
  1. Metal Progress, Vol. 49 (1946), p. 483.
  2. Wallace, Donald (1977). Market Control in the Aluminum Industry - Donald Holmes Wallace. p. 470. ISBN 978-0405097867.
  3. Flowers, Benjamin (2009). Skyscraper: The Politics and Power of Building New York City in the Twentieth Century. p. 95. ISBN 978-0812241846. Retrieved 10 April 2012.
  4. "Bohn Holders Vote Merger". Toledo Blade. August 20, 1963. Retrieved 5 January 2016.
  5. "Gulf & Western Agrees to Merger". Toledo Blade. April 14, 1966. Retrieved 5 January 2016.
  6. "COMPANY BRIEFS". The New York Times. September 26, 1989.

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