Thread: Vintage Coticule?

To Bart,
Actually, there were Nortons 50 years ago. I'm in the middle of reading a book about the Norton Company. They were a pottery in the 1860s and then started adding emery to the clay to make grinding stones and wheels. The 1880s were marked by them and others finally figuring out how to make grinding wheels that would perform predictably and not blow up when spun up by a motor. This was "high tech" back then! Their technological prowess continued to grow through the early 1900s and by that time they had hundreds of abrasive products for all kinds of uses. They started in Worcester, MA where there were also 3 straight razor manufacturers at the time.

The book is "Family Firm to Modern Multi-National, sub-titled "Norton Company, A New England Enterprise", copyright 1985 by Charles W. Cheape, a Harvard Business School professor. I have an extra copy if anybody wants it. $15.