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13 Explosion Victims Feel Lucky To Be Alive
Ripped Away . . . from the east side of the Griffin Pipe Products plant were corrugated siding, roofing and glass. The explosion knocked out windows up to 400 feet away and most of the glass over the smelting and casting departments.
13 Explosion Victims Feel Lucky To Be Alive
A Miracle At The Griffin Plant . . . is discussed by Henry Woodford, Fred Witt and Don Friedrichsen, as the wait for treatment at Mercy Hospital.
A Spaceship?
A 30-ton upper stack, part of the wet scrubber system being installed at Griffin Pipe Co., was raised to the upper cupola of the building Monday afternoon. The upper stack was raised by a crane shipped from Lawrence, Kan., for just that purpose. The…
American Steel Directors Are Pleased With Griffin Pipe Plant - First Visit To Council Bluffs
From Control Room . . . Griffin Pipe plant operations manager O.L. Dean, right, explains casting operations to American Steel Foundries President J.B. Lanterman, left; C.E. Grigsby, ASF vice president, and Frank W. Jenks, ASF board member and…
Biggest Furnace In Town Being Built - At Griffin Pipe Plant . . .
Giant Outer Shell . . . of the annealing furnace is in place at the Griffin Pipe Division plant. Workmen with transits, in foreground, are checking levels for installing foundations for other equipment.
Biggest Furnace In Town Being Built - At Griffin Pipe Plant . . .
Inside The Furnace . . . Charles Sullivan of Omaha works on the 18-inch brick lining which will protect the shell from the 1,800-degree operating temperatures.
Building Upturn Helps Griffin Pipe
Still Hot . . . out of the casting machine, this pipe is being marked by a Griffin Pipe employee. The Griffin plant manufactures ductile iron pipe used primarily in the housing industry.
Casting Freight Car Wheels Is A 'Hot Job' - It's Made In Council Bluffs . . .
One Hot Job . . . is Levertis Kelleybrew's. He removes the clamps from molds at Griffin Wheel Company, as they pass him on a carrier belt.
Casting Freight Car Wheels Is A 'Hot Job' - It's Made In Council Bluffs . . .
Mounting An Iron Wheel . . . on an axle is the precision task of Clon Fitz and Patrick Wolff. Most wheels are sold unmounted.
Controlled Smoke
Clean smoke drifts from the exhaust stack at Griffin Pipe plant after being filtered through a series of some 500 dacron bags, part of the smoke abatement system. The much-discussed system which has caused considerable trouble over the past few…
Downtown Omaha Honors Bluffs firm
Roy Miskelley . . . plant engineer, and Carl McCormick, sales manager of Griffin Pipe Products, admire a plaque given the company Wednesday for their efforts in environmental control.
First Pipe Goes To Water Works
Signing Receipt . . . for shipment of pipe is Martin W. Flynn, right. Others are M.E. (Barney) Rew, left, and Lee Samuelson of 208 Bennet Ave., foreman at the Griffin Pipe plant.
Good 'Old" Building Brought Bluffs Newest Major Industry - Top Griffin Officials Visit Here
Progress Toward Target Date . . . is reported by Sam C. Prest, Ross Drever, Goff Smith, Robert W. Turner and Orris Dean.
Griffin Back In Operation Dec. 2
Tricky Moving . . . of the new cupola at Griffin Pipe Products plant is guided by workmen.
Griffin Blast Injures 13; $1 Million Damage Seen
Walking Through Explosion Area . . . at Griffin plant is a city fireman. The cupola which blew up is to the right and rear of the fireman. In the foreground are cement slabs, glass, and pieces of iron which showered from the roof of the casting and…
Griffin Pipe Co. Plans Smoke Filtering System - Kiwanians Hear Tutskey
L.W. Tutskey, Vice President in charge of manufacturing for Griffin Pipe Products Co. in Council Bluffs, Iowa
Griffin Pipe Eyes $650,000 Air Pollution Device Here
Officials Walk By The "Bag House" . . . at Griffin Pipe Co. The facility acts as a giant vacuum cleaner bag where the dust remains on the inside while the clean air passes through to the outside.
Griffin Pipe Plant Plays Big Part In AMSTED Complex
Twenty-Foot Lengths . . . of cast iron pressure pipe are loaded aboard a freight car at the Griffin Pipe Products Co. plant here, an operating unit of AMSTED Industries.
Griffin Pipe Products Co.
File #1 - 1939-1964
Griffin Wheel Company
Council Bluffs, Iowa
Council Bluffs, Iowa
Griffin Pipe Products Co.
File #1 - 1939-1964
Griffin Pipe Products Co.
Council Bluffs, Iowa
Council Bluffs, Iowa