[SEL] Re: What is it? Now thanks

[Jeff Allen]

Hi all,

Thanks for all the replies. Gardner Denver is still in business, and I 
will contact them for more information. I snagged a page from the 
company web site with a bit of history and will paste it below. 
Interesting history.


Jeff Allen

http://oldirongallery.com/GTENGINE01.JPG
http://oldirongallery.com/GTENGINE02.JPG
http://oldirongallery.com/GTENGINE03.JPG

> Gardner Denver is an international leader in providing
> compressed air and pump equipment that helps keep
> thousands of manufacturing processes, as well as oil and gas
> production, moving ahead at a brisk pace. We began as the
> Gardner Governor Company in 1859, with the introduction
> of a product that provided the first effective speed control
> for steam engines. By 1890, we had expanded our product
> offering to include steam pumps and high speed vertical air
> compressors. At the turn of the century, the discovery of
> large oil deposits in Texas spurred us to adapt our unique
> steam pump technology for use in mud pumps which rapidly
> became an integral part of the oilwell drilling process.
> In 1927, the Gardner Company merged with Denver Rock Drill
> and became Gardner Denver, a manufacturer of equipment
> used in oilwell drilling, pipeline trenching, dam, tunnel and
> highway construction. For the next 52 years, we continued
> to grow and diversify. In 1979, Gardner Denver was acquired
> by Cooper Industries and split into ten divisions. Two of
> those divisions, Gardner Denver Air Compressors and Gardner
> Denver Petroleum Equipment, were combined six years
> later and became the Gardner Denver Industrial Machinery
> Division. We continued to acquire businesses and products
> to broaden our product offering and utilize established
> distribution channels.
> By 1994, our Division had built a solid reputation as a
> full line supplier of compressed air products and oil field
> petroleum equipment. Cooper, however, changed strategies
> and decided to exit the petroleum equipment business. As a
> result, the Gardner Denver Industrial Machinery Division was
> spun off as an independent company. Today, Gardner Denver,
> Inc. is a publicly held company traded on the New York Stock
> Exchange under the symbol GDI.
> TRADITION a quality manufacturing
> since 1859