The National Radiator company developed from the earlier Fowler Radiator Company (est. 1894.[1]) which was acquired in 1896 by John and Samuel Waters;[2] after the acquisition the radiator factory was moved from NorristowntoJohnstown. In 1902 the company was renamed National Radiator Company.[1]
The company expanded, and by the 1920s had plants in Trenton, New Jersey, Lebanon, Pennsylvania, and New Castle, Pennsylvania. On 8 Aug 1927 the National Radiator Corporation of Delaware was established with a capital of $25 million; the new group incorporated the Union Radiator Company, the Gurney Heater Canufacturing company, the Continental Heater Company, the Niagara Radiator and Boiler Company, and the Utica Heating Company.[2][3] In 1929 the company established an industrial research laboratory.[4]
In the early 1930s the company required reorganisation due to debt problems, and was placed into receivership and subsequently re-established.[5][6][7][8]
In 1951 a fire at the company's "Century" plant (Moxham) killed one person, and caused $1 million of damage.[9]
In 1954 the directors of the company approved a merger with the United States Radiator Corporation.[10]
^Hull, Callie, ed. (1940), "Industrial Research Laboratories of the United States", Bulletin of the National Research Council, no. 104 (7th ed.), National Research Council (U.S.), p. 197
