Nickelson files

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Our large selection of inventory lets us fill your order immediately and at a completion rate that is extremely high in our industry. Look through our website. Search Advanced Search Search Tips. Please wait as we process your request. Call for Pricing. Product Description Nicholson Flat Files Flat files are used by machinist's machinery builders and others who require rapid remove of metal. Double-cut on both sides, single-cut on both edges. Nicholson wrote a treatise on files and heir groper selection and use, which as "File Filosophy" is now in the second printing of its seventeenth edition.

Nicholson, at the time of his death in October , had seen the output of his works increased to over dozen files daily, and he had established an organization which has since developed the Company until it now operates four large plants in the United States and Canada which turn out thousands of dozens of files a day. Colonel Samuel M. Nicholson, son of the founder, devoted his entire business life to the manufacture of files and managed the Company from to the time of his death in Under his leadership the Nicholson File Company became the largest company in the world manufacturing exclusively Files and Rasps.

Whereas the founder was a pioneer in the science of cutting files by machinery, Colonel Nicholson was a pioneer exporter of files and as a result Nicholson Files are to be found in every market of the world. Paul C. Nicholson, who had been active in the Company since , was elected President and General Manager in It is Mr.

Nicholson who has guided the organization through the difficult years of World War II and the Post War Period and who has been responsible for the position the Company has maintained in Domestic and Export Markets.

On April 21, , Mr. Nicholson was elected Chairman of the Board of Directors and his son, Mr. Nicholson, Jr. The principal factory of the Company is located at Providence and large branch factories are at Philadelphia, Pa.

Swiss Pattern Files represent the very highest quality product of this Company. The manufacture of Nicholson X. Swiss Pattern Files was first started in and is carried on in a thoroughly modern plant equipped with the finest tools and machinery to assure the production of Swiss Pattern Files of a quality that will give entire satisfaction to the exacting requirements of jewelers, watch makers and fine tool makers.

Barton Smith. Nicholson, Founder. Left to right are John H Burton Sr. Burton Jr. Decision was made last year by the Nicholson firm to move from Providence to Anderson.

The decision was followed by a Chamber of Commerce dinner at which honor was paid to Nicholson executives, including Paul Nicholson Jr. John H. Burton Sr. The Nicholson plant, which employed around , will have a force of over in the new enlarged plant, Floor space of the industry is increased 40 per cent through erection of the new building. The new structure with 55, square feet of floor space, has frontage of feet on 36th St. First unit of the new addition placed in Operation was the extra fine cutting unit.

The next department placed in operation was the American pattern cutting department. The largest operation started was the grinding department, where heavier machinery is operated. Completion of the new building gives Anderson the largest file making plant in the country. Nicholson File Company reportedly began a phase down more than a week ago which will see the labor force cut to 80 skilled workers within six weeks.

At least of the more than employees have already lost their jobs. Sokol confirmed the report in a telephone interview Friday. The 39 year Anderson resident said that shortly after the Aug. The only remnant of a factory Which 10 years ago employed 1, persons will be a small force manufacturing machines for foreign plants.

He said those employees would be kept on indefinitely. When we saw the machines start moving out," he said "we knew it was over.

It was just a matter of time. People began losing their jobs that same week. This is the same group that sued both the company and the steelworkers union in late June.

Their department was the first to be moved out when the firm began its gradual transition southward last fill.