Bohn Aluminum and Brass Corporation

Characteristic futuristic Bohn advertisement showing a streamlined ocean liner. Metal Progress, 1946.[1]

Bohn Aluminum and Brass Corporation was a manufacturing company based in Detroit, Michigan and formed in 1924 from the merger of the General Aluminium and Brass Company and the C.B. Bohn Foundry Company.[2] It produced a series of notable advertisements depicting applications of its product in futuristic environments.[3] It merged into Universal American Corporation in 1963.[4] Universal American merged into Gulf and Western Industries in 1966.[5] Gulf and Western later sold Bohn to the Wickes Companies.^[citation needed] Wickes sold Bohn Aluminum and Brass to Norsk Hydro and its Heat Transfer Group division (which included Bohn Heat Transfer) to the Heatcraft subsidiary of Lennox International.[6]

References

1. Metal Progress, Vol. 49 (1946), p. 483.
2. Wallace, Donald (1977). Market Control in the Aluminum Industry - Donald Holmes Wallace. p. 470. ISBN 978-0405097867.
3. Flowers, Benjamin (2009). Skyscraper: The Politics and Power of Building New York City in the Twentieth Century. p. 95. ISBN 978-0812241846. Retrieved 10 April 2012.
4. "Bohn Holders Vote Merger". Toledo Blade. August 20, 1963. Retrieved 5 January 2016.
5. "Gulf & Western Agrees to Merger". Toledo Blade. April 14, 1966. Retrieved 5 January 2016.
6. "COMPANY BRIEFS". The New York Times. September 26, 1989.

External sources

• Imaging the Future, Arthur Radebaugh, Bohn Aluminium and Brass Corporation, advertisements
• Creepy anti-communist propaganda from Bohn Aluminum and Brass Corporation, 1952