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DOMINION BRIDGE COMPANY / COMPAGNIE DOMINION BRIDGE

1984-0443

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1971

Dominion Bridge Company

Interview of Warren Saker, Senior Sales Estimator for the Dominion Bridge Company in Toronto. Saker recalls his first job with the company in the drawing office in 1925 for $8 per week, later as Chief Draftsman of the Plate and Miscellaneous Iron Department and as an estimator for the Sales Department. Some of the projects Saker worked on include steel stairs and fire escapes, fire engine trucks, conveyors for General Motors, mining equipment for INCO and marine barges and saddle tanks for transport trucks. As the depression deepened, many of the projects were transferred to the company's Montreal facilities resulting in many layoffs in the Toronto branch. Also discussion of the war work performed by Saker and others include emergency crash trucks for Allied airfields, equipment for Liberty Ships and decompression chambers for pilot testing. Comments on the low wages paid by the company and the downturn in business for the company in the late 1960s round out the interview.

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MSS 16476

with written permission of copyright owner : with permission of AMCA : with permission of interviewees during their lifetimesThe copyright on this material was originally held by Dominion Bridge, a company that moved to the States and became AMCA and then United Dominion. Apparently United Dominion sold its Dominion Bridge division to a Canadian company, in 1993.According to the Gazette of 13 November 1998, Dominion Bridge of Lachine became part of ADF Heavy Industries, part of the Group ADF Inc. which is owned by the Au Dragon Forgè (Paschini family) of Terrebonne, Quebec.ADF was then acquired by TIL Cintreurs de Tubes International Ltee.Copyright owner: TIL Cintreurs de Tubes International Ltee.