The Fisher Story | 17
Sales reach $2.5 million.
First identification cards for sales representatives.
First Western Union teletype machine is installed to
speed communication with sales offices.
First two delivery trucks are purchased.
Sales offices open in Buffalo, New York; Havana, Cuba;
and Bismarck, North Dakota.
Jasper Fisher’s son, Bill (J.W. or Jasper William),
starts in the finance department. Bill later
becomes president.
Type 92 steam regulator introduced.
1941 Catalog 1-OP (oil production) is published.
First edition of You and Your Company is distributed
to employees.
1942 First identification
badges are used.
Level-Trol ® Series
2400-248 liquid level
controllers are
introduced.
Sales representatives are
established in Phoenix,
Arizona; and Charlotte,
North Carolina.
Fisher components enable the Norden Bombsight
(an analog computer) to drop bombs accurately from
aircraft at high altitude. (This is unconfirmed;
the project was top secret.)
rom 1941 to 1946 The
Governor newsletters featured
the Fisher Service Roll, listing
the names of the 295 employees
(by May 1946) called to military
service in World War II.
The newsletter included a
regular column titled “With the
Men In Service” as well as
personal war reports from
Private John Mullen, Jr., who was
promoted and transferred from
the U.S. to posts in the British
Isles and Belgium.
Guest speakers came to
Marshalltown to encourage
more production and share the
realities of modern war with the
local audience.
The 10-Year Club made
arrangements with the R.J.
Reynolds Tobacco Company to
provide free smokes for the men
in the service. Employees could
purchase cartons of cigarettes
(at $1.70 each) and distribute
them to loved ones via the U.S.
Army’s Service of Supply.
Several Fisher-Marshalltown
soldiers received Purple Hearts
for their service, including Earl
Eygabroad (machinist) and Tom
Shive (who later became Fisher
president). Staff Sergeant Frank
Helberg (gas regulator
department) died in action
(September 1944) during the
liberation of France, as did
Donald Diggins (turret lathebrass room) of pneumonia in
Italy (May 1945).
Fisher Honors Its Soldiers
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