Consolidations : American Tin
Plate Company
Page entitled : Tin plate industry in the USA
Content of this page is about :
How with the McKinley tariff, tin plate manufacturers mushroomed as Daniel
G. Reid and William B. Leeds took over the American Tin Plate Company and
turned it around
Extract :
... n the vicinity of the American steel industry, larger plants
were set-up with their own rolling mills to produce large quantities of
common-grade tin plate for the canning industry . One such plant was the
American Tin Plate Company of Elwood, Indiana. In 1892 that company was
unable to raise needed capital to finance its operations. Daniel Gray Reid,
then vice president of the Second National Bank of Richmond ...
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