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Shurly & Dietrich Co. was a Canadian saw manufacturer that was founded in 1873〔http://toolemera.com/Manufacturers%20%26%20Merchants/Mfg.%20opqrs/mfg.-shurlydietr.html〕 by Cosmos J. Shurly (1835 - 1918)〔http://generations.regionofwaterloo.ca/getperson.php?personID=I65746&tree=generations〕 and Jerome C. Dietrich (1838 - 1925).〔http://generations.regionofwaterloo.ca/getperson.php?personID=I65751&tree=generations〕 Shurly & Dietrich saws were heavily used in the Canadian logging industry. == History == In 1873, Jerome Dietrich and Cosmos Shurly brought skills learned while working at Distons in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, and invested $12,000 to found the Shurly & Dietrich Co. They hired nine saw makers from Rochester, New York, Sheffield and England and began to manufacture saws in Galt,Ontario, now called Cambridge.〔〔("Docking Saw" ), ''Lee Valley Woodworking Newsletter'', ol. 4, Issue 5. May 2010〕 By 1886 the company employed 70 skilled workman.〔("Shurly & Dietrich" ). ''Industries of Canada : Historical and Commercial Sketches : Hamilton and environs'', M. G. Bixby & Co., 1886.〕 The company held a number of Canadian patents for saw design. By 1906, Cosmos' son Theodore Shurly was the factory superintendent. Shurly & Dietrich later expanded into Quebec by purchasing an existing saw factory, Beaver Saw Works, in Sherbrooke. Between 1904 and 1910 the company expanded its original Galt factory, but in 1914 it sustained damage from a fire. By that time they had also built another plant in St. Catharines. In 1931, Shurly & Dietrich merged with another saw manufacturer, E. C. Atkins of Hamilton, and became Shurly-Dietrich-Atkins.〔"Canadian Saw Manufacturers Merge Interests". 〕 During World War II, Shurly Dietrich produced about 40,000 tons of light armoured plate,〔http://www.southworks.ca/about.htm〕 bringing in workers from Newfoundland to supplement the workforce.〔(Dearlove, Karen, “(Im)Migration and Community Building:Newfoundlanders in Cambridge, Ontario” ), Paper presented at York University,Toronto, May 2006〕 In 1957, Shurly Dietrich was one of two main saw manufacturers in Canada. By 1968 about 1,400,000 feet of band saw blades designed for cutting metal and over 1,000,000 jigsaw blades were being manufactured each year.〔 In 1969, Shurly Dietrich was acquired by H.K. Porter. In 1973,Shurly Dietrich closed its plant after one hundred years in the business. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Shurly & Dietrich」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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