Standard Tool & Manufacturing was a Swedish-American Tool and main supplier of electronics to the Radio Corporation of America (RCA) based in Kearny, New Jersey,[1] United States.
Another company called Standard Tool & Mfg was founded in 1994.
History edit
The company was founded in 1910 by Swedish emigrant Johannes Strandberg. In the early history of Standard Tools the company consisted of a small machine shop that made metal parts, machine tools and metalworking equipment.[2] In 1926 Mr Bernard "Bearny" J. Keating took over as chairman and the company expanded. On March 13, 1945, Standard Tool and Manufacturing company received the Army-Navy E, Award of Excellence for Achievement in Production.[3] In 1955 Standard Tools was cited by the RCA for "many outstanding contributions to R.C.A. and the electronics industry over the past twenty-five years".[4] Mr Keating was named the outstanding Roman Catholic layman of the year by St. John's University, Brooklyn and received its St. Vincent de Paul Medal.
Notes edit
- ^ "History". Kearny NJ.org.
- ^ National Museum of American History. "Trade catalogs from Standard Tool & Mfg. Co.". Retrieved on 18 January 2018.
- ^ Krasner, Barbara (2003). Images of America Kearny, p. 59. Arcadia Publishing, Charleston. ISBN 0-7385-0403-3.
- ^ The New York Times, June 3rd 1957