Standard Tool & Manufacturing
Template:Short description Standard Tool & Manufacturing was a Swedish-American Tool and main supplier of electronics to the Radio Corporation of America (RCA) based in Kearny, New Jersey,[1] United States.
Another company called Standard Tool & Mfg was founded in 1994.
History
The company was founded in 1910 by Swedish emigrant Johannes Strandberg. In the early history of Standard Tools the company consisted of a small machine shop that made metal parts, machine tools and metalworking equipment.[2] In 1926 Mr Bernard "Bearny" J. Keating took over as chairman and the company expanded. On March 13, 1945, Standard Tool and Manufacturing company received the Army-Navy E, Award of Excellence for Achievement in Production.[3] In 1955 Standard Tools was cited by the RCA for "many outstanding contributions to R.C.A. and the electronics industry over the past twenty-five years".[4] Mr Keating was named the outstanding Roman Catholic layman of the year by St. John's University, Brooklyn and received its St. Vincent de Paul Medal.
Notes
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- ↑ National Museum of American History. "Trade catalogs from Standard Tool & Mfg. Co.". Retrieved on 18 January 2018.
- ↑ Krasner, Barbara (2003). Images of America Kearny, p. 59. Arcadia Publishing, Charleston. Template:ISBN.
- ↑ The New York Times, June 3rd 1957
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