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Russel Wheel and Foundry Company

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Industry
  
Founded
  
1878

Headquarters
  
Type of business
  
Privately held company

Fate
  
The manufacture of Railcars, railroad wheels and logging equipment ceased in 1916

Russel Wheel and Foundry Company manufactured rail cars, rail car wheels, logging equipment and structural steel, Tall Skeletal Lighthouses in Detroit, Michigan between 1876 and 1916. In 1916, the company name was changed to Russel Steel Construction Company. Russel Wheel & Foundry supplied and erected the iron and structural steel for the Hammond Building in Detroit. When the Great Depression hit, they closed their doors and never reopened.

Russell Car and Snow Plow Company of Ridgeway, Pennsylvania and the Russel Wheel and Foundry Company of Detroit, MI have no relation.

Walter S. Russel of the Russel Wheel and Foundry Company purchased the K-R-I-T Motor Car Company in 1911

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Russel Wheel and Foundry Company Wikipedia


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