What are gudgeons? Why were they important during World War II? They are one of the little know war materials made in York as part of the York Plan, and they are part of the Home Front story of Esther Smith.
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Boy Scouts from coast-to-coast installed concrete posts nearly every mile along the Lincoln Highway on September 1st, 1928. Within York County, the task was completed by 27 troops of York County Boy Scouts placing 7 new signs and installing 26 concrete posts. This post explore a Lincoln Highway marker that still stands just east of Ducktown Road.
York-Shipley supplied various types of ball race turret assemblies to tank manufacturers during WWII. These included 60-inch diameter ball race gun turret rings manufactured for the General Grant M-3 Army tank, and the 72-inch diameter ball race turret assembly for the General Sherman M-4 Army tank. They also manufactured roller race assemblies for 30 and 50 caliber gun mounts and turret rings for use on 40-mm Bofors guns.
York-Hession Model H-106 Fog Generating Machine was designed by John Hession, Jr. at Columbia University; with the concept refined for manufacturing by engineers at York-Shipley in York, Pennsylvania. Esther Smith shared memories about those machines as one of her jobs on the Home Front during World War II.
Do you collect bullet pens? Or make use of them to use pencil stubs? Photos of a card and a bullet pencil, advertising the Covered Wagon Trailer Sales business, were submitted. This business was located in Stonybrook, Springettsbury Township, York County, PA.
Did you know a York Trolley Car Barn was used as a York-Shipley war production factory? A history of the Car Barns, at the corner of Hartley Street and Pennsylvania Avenue, serves as background for that York-Shipley plant where my Mom worked on the home front during World War II.
Hickey’s Drive-In Restaurant was the initial eating establishment just east of Mills Street in the northwest area of Yorkshire. At least a dozen restaurants followed at that 3014 East Market Street location and now only the neighboring Dairy Queen remains. One of those establishments was the Unicorn Diner, operated by a celebrity chef.
When Glen ‘Mac’ McAbee opened Mac’s Hardware in 1956, he was at the forefront of hardware and home improvement businesses in Springettsbury Township. His store was located near the northwest corner of Arsenal Road and North Sherman Street, with the address 713 Arsenal Road.
Discover how the Grantley Plant began 100-years ago, via a short history of the eight buildings opening during the initial five years. They were the origins of a 57-building complex providing jobs for generations of York County residents. Going into its second Century, part of the Grantley Plant continues to produce cooling products used around the world.
Discover Ma & Pa Railroad connections to East Berlin and Turnpike Tunnels in this exploration of an 1873 proposed route of the Peach Bottom Railway Western Division from York to connect with the East Broad Top Railroad. That route crosses paths with the 1883/1885 South Pennsylvania Railroad, which was repurposed as the Pennsylvania Turnpike in 1940.