The Fisher Story | 23
1950s
1949 Signed a 50-year licensee agreement with
Elliott Brothers, Ltd. (Rochester, Kent, England) to
manufacture and market products in England,
Scotland, France, Australia, South Africa, West
Germany and Singapore. Company named Fisher
Governor Company, Ltd.
1950 Bill Fisher and the board of directors establish
the Fisher Governor Foundation, a charitable,
non-profit organization to improve the cultural,
civic, educational and charitable well-being
of Marshalltown.
Sales representatives are established in
London, England and Caracas, Venezuela.
Type 3500 Positrol valve
positioner introduced.
Marshalltown factory first aid
room completed.
Awarded industry’s largest
regulator contract for
71,000 Type 730BT
regulators delivered via
36 truckloads.
Serial number 2,000,000 assigned to a
Type 57T valve.
Production begins at the Rochester, Kent,
England plant.
Left to right Jack Carter, Karl Biermann and Charley Kirchberger
Through the holiday season
(early November through
January), employees also give
generously to worthy causes and
the less fortunate.
Fisher makes annual
contributions to the local United
Way campaign and to
non-profit organizations such as
the House of Compassion.
In recent years, Emerson and
its worldwide divisions have
made donations to the families
of U.S. troops serving overseas,
to disaster-relief efforts in New
York City (after September 11,
2001) and to South East Asia
(after the tsunami in 2004).
Fisher-Singapore has hosted
an annual dinner and dance for
up to 700 local employees and
their spouses. The evening
included a nine-course Chinese
dinner, entertainment and
prize drawings.
Holiday stationery, 1938