The need for additional capital led to incorporation in 1885 with $100,000 in capital stock.
Rounding out their sales were heating apparatus consisting of fans and steam coils, and ventilating fans. It was only many years later that this claim was proven false and the fans discontinued. Located at 6000 Russell St., Detroit, they created a successful business around the Smith Fan, used for carrying off shavings in wood-working shops, on the believed premise that it greatly reduced the horsepower required to do a given amount of work. He survived internment at several prison camps, including the infamous Andersonville, before escaping toward the war's conclusion. Smith fought in the Civil War, rising to the rank of Captain in a Michigan regiment. It all started back in 1881, when an organization called the Huyett & Smith Manufacturing Company was founded as a partnership by a pair of Detroit natives, M.C.Huyett, a mill owner and W.D.Smith, a millwright who invented a "double-discharge" exhaust fan while employed at Huyett's mill. Framingham Foundries American Blower Corp.ĪBC was a Michigan fan company which had an early entanglement with Sturtevant and a joint integration in a foreign owned division at the very end of its history.
B.F.Sturtevant Sturtevant Engineering Ltd.
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