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Brandt-Dent Co
416-422 S First
1907
05 05 The Edward J.
Brandt-Dent Co. recently received two Brandt Automatic Cashiers, which had been
used by the Westinghouse Co., in the Pittsburg district which was recently
flooded. These cashiers were covered
with a deposit of yellow mud. They had
certainly been submerged by the flood but were otherwise little the worse for
their experience.
12 18 Owing to the
development of the two branches of the business for years conducted by the
Edward J. Brandt-Dent Company each branch being entirely different from the
other, the business has been divided into two corporations ... The corporation
name is now the Brandt Cashier
Manufacturing Company ... and this corporation continues the manufacture
for the Brandt automatic cashiers for the United States and Canada . . . The
two local corporations will be conducted separately, but they will be
practically under the same management . . . The gas fixture branch of the
business will be conducted by the newly incorporated Brandt-Dent company. The officers remain the same.
12 26 Brandt-Dent has inaugurated and carried out a novel scheme - that of taking a census of their employees. The figures show that the number of employees have gradually increased from seven to sixty. The census of the local concern also shows that the labor employed has worked on an average of full time the past seventeen years. The employees and members of their families number one hundred and twenty-five. That number however does not include the sales force and office help.
01 22 Edward J.
Brandt has sold his interest in the gas fixture department of the Brandt-Dent Co.
to Robert Dent and Gabriel B. Levy of Boston, a well-known chandelier
manufacturer and several other eastern men.
They have organized a company with a capital of $60,000 and will
manufacture gas fixtures and chandeliers in the William
Gorder building in [416-420 S.] First Street,
formerly occupied by the M. D. Wells Co.
This will be another fine addition to the manufacturing interests of
Watertown. At least 75 hands will be
employed, many of them skilled mechanics.
Manufacture Gas Fixtures, Fittings and Chandeliers WG
1910
06 17 Fire department called to Brandt-Dent
factory in First St WG
Cross References:
1902, from Picturesque Watertown booklet
1910, Gas and electric fixtures, calender postcard
1913, 416-422 S First, gas & electric light fixture mfgs
