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Tweed Steel Works Limited
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History
The Steel Trough and Machine Company, later called Tweed Steel Works Limited, was founded by Wilberforce “Wilbur” A. Gordon (1872-1956) in Tweed, Ontario. The company, which originally manufactured steel hog and water troughs, was incorporated in 1904. By 1910 the company also produced Rowe lavoratories, sanitary closets, steel tanks, steel cheese vats, maple evaporators, self-measuring pumps, gasoline tanks, street sprinkling tanks, milk cooling tanks, garbage cans, feed and water troughs, food cookers, grain boxes, coal chutes, threshers' tanks, smokestacks, and galvanized culverts.