Mary,
Thanks, but does friend Jester say anything about how long it
(and it's imitators) were around?
Certain-Teed's general offices were at 100 E 42 St, NY in the
'29 Sweet's. Their Fibre division was located in Buffalo and Thorold,
Ont.
Ralph
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Subject: Re: [BP] Beaverboard
In a message dated 12/27/2005 3:04:26 P.M. Eastern Standard
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Has anybody got any idea when beaverboard began being
manufactured, and when its production stopped?
According to 20th Century Building Materials, edited
Tom Jester, "Beaver Board" was a proprietary name of fiberboard
manufactured by Beaver Board Company of Beaver Falls and later Buffalo,
NY. Between 1913 and 1920, the company was awarded a 6 patents on its
pulp-composite wallboard, although some Buffalo city directories seem
to indicate that they may have been producing it as early as 1907.
Fiberboard was produced as early as 1772. The first US patent
was issued in 1858. Jester's book notes that it was probably not mass
produced or readily available until the 1910s.
Julip the Silent (until Prodded)