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1931 - C. Edward
Alexander opens own welding business on Gales Street. Several
years later, he moves to 414 S. McDowell Street. |
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1945 - Edward Alexander and wife Nancy Alexander
begin acquiring land in 500 block of Pershing Road. They
(and later widowed wife Nancy) acquire additional
parcels in 1948, 1949, 1951, 1955, 1956. |
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1947, July - Alexander Welding occupies second
building in 500 block of Pershing Road. |
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1948 - Alexander Welding closes McDowell Street
location and consolidates operations on Pershing Road.
Also that year, Edward Alexander obtains first patent,
for a logging cart design. He's granted a second patent
in 1953, for a truck hoist design. |
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1951 - Edward Alexander dies and his wife Nancy begins
running Alexander Welding. |
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1952, April - Alexander Welding featured in News &
Observer. They build custom truck bodies, including tank bodies.
They also perform repairs on their products, and general
wielding repairs on other items. They have 20 employees, and
one-of-a-kind machines for steel work. They can make 400 truck
tanks and 50 tractor-drawn tank trailers during year, along with
their repair work. They also don't have any salesmen, but have
representatives at companies across the southeast. They are
strictly a family business. Son Douglas O. Alexander is the
company's designer and is responsible for all engineering and
drafting work. |
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1955, October - Alexander Welding and Manufacturing Company
in Raleigh are incorporated. The incorporates are Nancy Alexander
and sons Douglas O. Alexander, Joseph E. Alexander, and Thomas
W. Alexander.
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1959, February or earlier - Atlas Steel Products
created.
Started by Edward's son Douglas O. Alexander. Other
founders were/included Edgar M. Beaver [source: 4/17/10
obituary in Charlotte Observer] and Edgar R. Dimmette
[source: 1/14/96 obituary in Charlotte Observer]
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1959, February - Atlas Steel Products acquires 5.31 acres of
land at 1818 New Hope Church Road. |
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1959, March - Atlas Steel Products incorporated. The
incorporators are Douglas O. Alexander (President), David H.
Henderson, and Charles J. Henderson. |
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1959 - September - Nancy Alexander acquires parcel
of land on Highway 1. |
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1962, July - After the city annexes the areas around
Pershing Road, Alexander Welding acquires 10.94 acres of
land on Highway 1, at the present address 4900 Capital
Boulevard. The company relocates from Pershing Road, but Nancy
Alexander retains ownership of the Pershing Road
properties, and the buildings are rented to other
tenants. |
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1972, Oct - Atlas Steel Products announces
partnership with Southern Pump & Tank Company (SPATCO)
in September-October 1972 advertisement in Hose & Nozzle
magazine.
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1979 February - Lease granted to W. H. Dhail
Plumping for 518 Pershing Road, from 2/1/79 to 1/31/84.
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1980, December - Nancy Alexander dies. The Pershing
Road properties is transferred to a trust, for care of
daughter Nancy Anne Alexander.
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1981, July - Alexander Welding dissolved as corporate entity.
The officers are President and Secretary William H. Alexander,
Vice President Joseph E. Alexander, Treasurer D. E. Butler,
Director Thomas W. Alexander, and Director James. W. Alexander.
The property on Highway 1 is sold in 1982 and the company's assets
are reported liquidated in 1983. |
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1982 – Atlas acquired by Amfire. [Maybe. Exactly one
citation has been found for this to date, in a book by
Walt McCall on American fire apparatus manufacturers.] |
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1982, November - Atlas Steel Products attempts to sell
property 1818 New Hope Church Road for $750,000. The sale
apparently fails, as additional sale attempts are recorded again
in November ($1,025,000) and April 1983 ($250,000). |
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1982, December - Atlas Steel Products changes name
to Atlas Fire Apparatus, though doesn't file the change
with the state until 1985. |
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1983, December or earlier - Second Atlas corporate entity
created by this time, Atlas Emergency Products. The founders are Louis B. Alexander and his
brother C. Edward Alexander II, sons of Douglas Alexander,
founder of Atlas Steel Products, and grandsons of Edward Alexander,
founder of Alexander Welding. |
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1983, December - Atlas Emergency Products incorporated.
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1983, December - Atlas Emergency Products renamed Emergency
Equipment Inc. (EEI). |
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1983, December - Atlas Fire Apparatus grants lease to Atlas
Emergency Products, leasing all their furniture and equipment.
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1984, May -
Atlas Fire Apparatus files for bankruptcy, under provisions of
Chapter 11. |
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1985, January - Atlas Fire Apparatus corporate name change
recorded by state, originally enacted December 1982. |
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1985, February - Atlas Fire Apparatus property at 1818 New Hope Church Road sold to Harris Wholesale
($900,000). |
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1985, February - EEI lease former Atlas Fire Apparatus
property on New Hope Church Road. |
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1989, November - County records one-story addition at 518
Pershing Road. |
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1999, May – Emergency Equipment Inc. (EEI) closes,
unexpectedly on May 18. Workers are told abruptly that they have
one hour to remove their belongs. Several departments are left
in the lurch, with pending production orders that they already
paid for. They later learn that the company wasn’t bonded. News reports that the Centura Bank in Rocky Mounty foreclosed on
the business, due to EEI having defaulted on payments. A public
auction was planned to sell tools, office equipment, and other
inventory. No apparatus at the company would be auctioned (at
that time). At the time of its closure, the company had about
a dozen employees. Source: N&O, 6/8/99, 6/12/99; 7/15/99;
Charlotte Observer, 6/24/99. |
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2002, March - Property at 518 Pershing Road sold to AJA
Enterprises LLC. |
