AMERICAN RADIATOR & STANDARD SANI TARY CORPORATION, a corporation directly and through a group of subsidiary companies manufacturing and supplying mechanical equipment for buildings, was organized in 1929 as a Delaware corporation through a merger of the interests of the American Radiator Company and the Standard Sanitary Manu facturing Company. Together, these two companies have manu factured more than half the heating and plumbing equipment in existence in the world.
The American Radiator Company, manufacturers of heating and air conditioning equipment, was formed in 1892, by a merger of the Pierce Steam Heating Company, established in 1872, with the Michigan Radiator and Iron Company and the Detroit Radiator Company. The Standard Sanitary Manufacturing Com pany, manufacturers of plumbing fixtures, was organized in 1899 by merger of the Standard Manufacturing Company, formed in 1883, with six other companies, the Ahrens & Ott Manufacturing Company, Dawes and Myler, Buick and Sherwood Manufacturing Company, Vollrath Manufacturing Company, Pennsylvania Bath Tub Company, and Cribben and Sexton. Both American Radiator Company and Standard Sanitary Manufacturing Company were dissolved on Jan. 31, 1939, and their assets taken over directly by American Radiator & Standard Sanitary Corporation.
Subsidiary companies include American Blower Corporation, Canadian Sirocco Company, Ltd., C. F. Church Manufacturing Company, Detroit Lubricator Company, Dominion Radiator & Boiler Company, Ltd., Heating & Plumbing Finance Corporation, Kewanee Boiler Corporation, Ross Heater & Manufacturing Com pany, Inc., Standard Air Conditioning, Inc., Standard Sanitary Manufacturing Company, Ltd., and Standard Sanitary Manufac turing Company of Mexico, S. A., in addition to II affiliates in European countries.
Factories maintained by the Corporation and its subsidiaries in the United States and Canada number 37, with 16 plants in Euro pean countries. Sales branches are maintained in 82 American and Canadian cities, and in 18 principal European cities. Products of the companies include heating, plumbing, and air conditioning equipment and special industrial equipment. (H. M. RE.)