In the days before Evernote, companies used to hand out small 3″x 5″ notepad like this one from Bethlehem Steel. They must have been great for note taking! A young Harry Thompson IV must have liked them too, as evidenced by this picture from the early 1970’s!
1973 Harry’s Secret Diary Read More »
Conklin adds more product lines including weld pins, vane & rail, slip & drives, access doors, angle rings, flex duct and duct board. Company also adds a 2nd branch — in (GV) Greenville, SC.
Conklin opens a new branch in Greenville, SC. The Thompson family begins negotiation of stock purchase from Conklin and Goddard estate.
1967 (GV) Greenville, SC Location Opens Read More »
The company purchases new brake and shear to go after “heavy gauge steel users instead of HVAC & roofing”.
Conklin now offers “Complete Line of sheet metal, roofing products, heating products and machine tools”. Heating products included snaplock and elbows, fittings, boots and rectangular ductwork. Also VR2, MFN canvas connector, damper hardware, solder, screws and pop rivets.
Harry B. Thompson III starts with the company on 9/20/62. Also a graduate of Georgia Tech, Harry III came to Conklin in 1962 and became Company President in 1971. He held this position until his retirement on 6/1/03; it had been 105 years since his grandfather first started as a billing clerk.
1962 Harry B. Thompson, III. Read More »
