London, Ontario: When Casting was King (Symbols of Perspiration) To the memory of Alan Geoffrey Anderson 1920-1993 Geoff Anderson symbolsofperspiration.wordpress.com rev 4.1, Sept 5, 2017 Table of Contents CHAPTER 1 PREAMBULATIONS ...................................................................................................................... 1-4 ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS .......................................................................................................................................... 1-4 PREFACE ................................................................................................................................................................ 1-4 A NOTE ON THE GENEALOGIES .............................................................................................................................. 1-5 REVISION HISTORY LOG ........................................................................................................................................ 1-5 CHAPTER 2 INTRODUCTION ............................................................................................................................ 2-7 LONG POINT FURNACE .......................................................................................................................................... 2-9 VAN NORMAN IRONWORKS AT NORMANDALE .................................................................................................... 2-10 SUMMARY SKETCHES OF THE NORMANDALE PERSONALITIES ............................................................................. 2-12 CHAPTER 3 THE LEONARDS .......................................................................................................................... 3-15 THE SAUGUS POT - AMERICA’S “FIRST” CASTING ................................................................................................ 3-15 THE LEONARDS - THE ST THOMAS ERA ............................................................................................................... 3-16 THE LEONARDS - THE LONDON ERA .................................................................................................................... 3-20 THE LEONARDS - SUBSEQUENT GENERATIONS .................................................................................................... 3-23 LEWIS CORYDON LEONARD................................................................................................................................. 3-23 LIEUTENANT-COLONEL EDWIN WOODMAN LEONARD, D.S.O. (1883-1917) ....................................................... 3-23 CHAPTER 4 THE GLOBE FOUNDRY ............................................................................................................. 4-25 MURRAY ANDERSON ........................................................................................................................................... 4-25 THE RISE OF LONDON EAST ................................................................................................................................. 4-26 DOUGLAS ANDERSON, BROTHER ......................................................................................................................... 4-28 SALE TO SAMUEL CRAWFORD ............................................................................................................................. 4-29 THE LONDON & PORT STANLEY RAILWAY .......................................................................................................... 4-30 TODAY AT LILLEY’S CORNERS ............................................................................................................................ 4-31 CHAPTER 5 THE MCCLARY MANUFACTURING COMPANY ................................................................ 5-33 THE BEGINNINGS OF LONDON’S LARGEST TURN-OF-THE-CENTURY MANUFACTURER .......................................... 5-33 GENERAL STEEL WARES AND CAMCO ................................................................................................................. 5-35 JOHN MCCLARY, PRESIDENT OF LONDON LIFE ................................................................................................... 5-36 JOHN MACKENZIE MOORE .................................................................................................................................. 5-37 BEACON LODGE ................................................................................................................................................... 5-38 THE FLIGHT OF THE SIR JOHN CARLING IN 1927 ................................................................................................. 5-39 WILLIAM MOIR GARTSHORE ............................................................................................................................... 5-40 A SIDEBAR ON SIR ADAM BECK .......................................................................................................................... 5-43 CHAPTER 6 STEVENS, TURNER & BURNS .................................................................................................. 6-47 LONDON WATERWORKS ..................................................................................................................................... 6-47 THE VICTORIA DISASTER .................................................................................................................................... 6-48 CHAPTER 7 EMPIRE BRASS AND EMCO ..................................................................................................... 7-51 CHAPTER 8 THE NORTH AMERICAN AGRICULTURAL IMPLEMENT & GENERAL MANUFACTURING COMPANY ....................................................................................................................... 8-54 CHAPTER 9 WEBSTER MANUFACTURING ................................................................................................. 9-57 WEBSTER MANUFACTURING AND THE SALE OF THE CAE INDUSTRIES AUTOMOTIVE PARTS GROUP .................. 9-58 CHAPTER 10 MISCELLANEOUS OTHER LONDON FOUNDRIES ......................................................... 10-63 CHAPTER 11 EARLY FOUNDRIES AND IRONWORKS ........................................................................... 11-65 THE MAKING OF CAST IRON OBJECTS ................................................................................................................ 11-65 i BOG IRON .......................................................................................................................................................... 11-66 THE EARLY PRODUCTION OF IRON .................................................................................................................... 11-66 LES FORGES SAINT-MAURICE ........................................................................................................................... 11-67 LANSDOWNE IRONWORKS ................................................................................................................................. 11-67 THE COLBORNE IRONWORKS ............................................................................................................................. 11-67 THE MARMORA IRONWORKS ............................................................................................................................. 11-67 THE HOUGHTON FURNACE ................................................................................................................................ 11-68 CHAPTER 12 A.G. ANDERSON AND PATTERNMAKING ........................................................................ 12-70 ALAN GEOFFREY ANDERSON (1920-1993) ........................................................................................................ 12-70 WHAT ARE PATTERNS? ...................................................................................................................................... 12-73 EARLY PATTERNMAKERS .................................................................................................................................. 12-74 19TH CENTURY PATTERNMAKERS IN LONDON .................................................................................................... 12-74 20TH CENTURY EMERGENCE OF THE JOBBING PATTERNSHOP............................................................................ 12-74 CHAPTER 13 EXCEPTIONAL FAMILIES WITH LONDON CONNECTIONS ....................................... 13-76 MEREDITH ......................................................................................................................................................... 13-76 SAUNDERS ......................................................................................................................................................... 13-77 SIFTON ............................................................................................................................................................... 13-77 BLAKE ............................................................................................................................................................... 13-77 OSLER ................................................................................................................................................................ 13-77 CHAPTER 14 SELECTED GENEALOGIES .................................................................................................. 14-78 INTRODUCTORY COMMENTS AND CAUTIONS....................................................................................................