Manufacturing Today Issue - 215 August 2023 | Page 154

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Our very first delivery truck , a brass radiator . Model , T Ford . Our very first driver was African- American , because my grandfather , even back in 1915 , promoted diversity in the workplace .
A posed picture in 1940 of three time winner , Wilbur Shaw , in bowling shoes , no less , watching his race tires being filled with 100 % nitrogen .
It all started when my grandfather and his brother had an idea to set up an oxygen company , the process began by bombarding water molecules with electrons , then separating the molecules into oxygen and hydrogen gases
Taken around 1950 , this image my father , Bob Brant , second generation , standing next to his father , Walter Brant , the first , and Walter ’ s brother , the other founder , John .
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