COVINGTON MACHINE COMPANY
The Covington Machine Company, formed in 1892, included a well equipped machine shop and foundry.
It manufactured coke drawing and loading machines, coal leveling machines for bee hive ovens, punches, shears, bending rolls and other equipment. Officers at the time the company was sold in 1920 were F.U. Humbert, president; F.W. King, vice president; G.W. Lipscomb, secretary and treasurer, and E.H.Archer, manager.
-The Iron Age Volume 105, issues 14-26
“From the Covington furnace iron has been shipped far and near, and some of the best known manufacturers of machinery in the United States use very extensively the product of the Covington plant. A large part of the iron manufactured in this furnace is consumed by local industries, the Covington Machine Company using hundreds of tons of pig iron a year.”
From: Alleghany County Virginia; It’s Resources and Industries Volume 142 by Covington, VA Chamber of Commerce
“The Covington Machine Company of Covington, Virginia has developed a new internal combustion fuel-oil engine, which it has just put on the market.”
