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AESCO/MADSEN'S
Madsen Misc Page
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- Below are some fun items from the
long forgotten history of Madsen Iron Works.
- In the early nineteen hundreds, as
with so many industries, Madsen was called on to manufacture
- many different products in many
different fields in addition to their core asphalt batch plant line.
- these products were. Auto parts, gas grills,
fire plugs, manhole covers & mine cars to name just a few.
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- As time rolled on most of these products were
discontinued or product lines sold to keep up with the
- requirements of an ever changing economy.
Every now and then, an old customer, a friend of the
- company or a collector of old antique machines
sends us a photo or two of some old equipment
- they found in a museum, rusting away in a
field or sitting in someone's front yard.
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- Below is a few of
these items, with hope that we will find many more to add here.
- For those that sent us the information,
we thank you very much. For those that would like to
- The Madsen Gas Grill
- No one seems to know when this was originally
manufactured.
- Photos sent to us around 2003 by an antique
collector who's name we've sadly forgotten.
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- The 500 Ton Portable Batch Plant
- Designed by Madsen in the late 1920's, records
show this all-in-one portable batch plant,
- Serial No. M80, was manufactured in 1939. The
original design called for a hand cranked engine,
- virtually no safety, sound or environmental
safeguards (surprise!) and a mixer gate that dumped
- the hot mix directly on the ground. Could not
have been much fun to work with this machine.
- Our records also show that parts for this odd
looking device were still being sold well into the 1960's.
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Photos courtesy of Darrin Johnson (former
Aesco/Madsen salesman) who spotted this displayed
- in front of a midwestern industrial machinery
dealer.
© 2009 Aesco/Madsen. All rights reserved.
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