14 | The Fisher Story
1936 Sales representatives are in 44 U.S. cities and
15 foreign countries.
Sales representative is established in
Baltimore, Maryland.
Sales representatives
are established in
Chicago, Illinois and
Cambridge,
Massachusetts.
1938 Neil T. Chadderdon becomes president when
Jasper Fisher passes away.
Type 77 pressure
reducing valve
introduced.
1937 New
advertising
campaign.
Jasper Fisher’s wife,
Edna, establishes the 10-year Club with 44 charter
members.
The 10-year Club operates a refreshment counter
known as “The
Canteen” to
finance the
sick benefit
plan. Items
include milk,
fig pies,
Copenhagen ®
chewing
tobacco, and
other treats.
War Time Production
D
uring World War II, the
Fisher Governor Company
ranked high among United
States manufacturing plants
supporting the war effort. In
fact, it was #161 out of some
30,000 companies including
airplane factories, arsenals and
ordinance works.
In July 1942, company
president Neil Chadderdon
announced that the
Marshalltown factory would go
on a 7-day week, running three
President Neil Chadderdon poses with
an 8-inch Type 57T valve that weighs
2.5 tons, 1941
shifts and including three
consecutive Sundays.
(Employees got the fourth
Sunday of the month off.) Neil
commented that even the
increased hours associated with
the “Valves for Victory”
campaign would not in itself
meet the demand of war orders.
More than 500,000 valves
and instruments rolled through
the plant during a five-year
(1938 to 1943) period, and that
equaled the company’s total
production since 1880!
For that unprecedented
volume and unrelenting pace of
production, employees received
in 1943 the coveted Army-Navy
“E” award, the country’s highest
recognition for superior
production achievements of
vital war materials. Only 3% of all
businesses in the United States
received this honor.
Mustering all their energy
and patriotism, employees
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