BOLT -WRIGHT Company
Last Up-dated   4-16-2002
J.C.Bolt Co. and Bolt & Company --1931-1934
Bolt-Wright Co.--193?- 1934
Wright & Company--1934-?
Wright Co.
Wright Line
Barry Wright Co.


More on Joseph C. Bolt related to founding of Bolt & Company that was to become Wright Line.

Akron Ohio native with Firestone in Akron, from part time job school time to Chief Cost Accounting supervising 150 people.
Joseph then had own consulting business in NJ.
Governor  Stokes and President of Mechanics National Bank in Trenton NJ. Stokes would put him into various companies for the bank to put it on firm ground again.

To Worcester office of IBM ,. Began BOLT & Co. 1931. Joseph  had several patents at time.

Nov 1931 Took office in Duprey Bld, Norwich St in Worcester.

June 1932 Started using large hall at 498 Lincoln St Worcester as office. The company then began serious work on guide cards.—making samples—then sales Feb & March 1933.

Orders for Jan 10th, 1934
 Simmons Bed Co. in Elizabeth NJ
 * Hudson Wholesale Groceries in Jersey City NJ
 * Lorraine Mfg. Co. Pawtucket RI
 * Feb 21st mailed 200 guides to Chattanooga TN
 10,000 guides to Harrisburg Pa –State of PA
Kroger Grocery Cincinnati OH  2000 of 2-30-1

Location of BOLT & Co. was 489 Lincoln Street in Worcester MA
That location became the location of the Sharton-Lincoln Hotel. It was a golf course after old BUXON homestead house was torn down. My family , mother Dorothy Bolt & father Joseph Bolt were living there during depression times in 1932. The company started selling designed Guide Cards, Office appliances( new & used) , office filing systems, tabulating accessories, and was a growing company. They were receiving orders from Simplex Time Recorder, Kroger Grocery & other wholesale groceries in Tenn. & SC, Simmons Mattress, State of PA.
Joseph received a job offer from Standard Register of Dayton OH which was too good to refuse as it was a fairly new company and a challenge. This was when Mr. Wright bought the company ( 1934).

Dorothy remembered a one horse ( or 2 horses) operation , attaching colloid tops on special cut guide cards by hand, ordering best quality press board, going into Dresleavy Co. in Boston to check on thin part of it, to Cambridge Addressing Machine & Equipment Co. for office supplies, etc.

Wrights family might have owned a vacuum cleaner Co. ---Electrolux ?
It was 1934 Mr. Wright had his bad back problem & never did straighten up.
Customers we had 1931-1934.
From Dorothy’s 1934 diary: Feb 1931 or 34 the start of Mr. Wright’s back problems. He was in bed for a while with back problems and couldn't straighten up. She saw him a few yrs later and he was still bent over. David ( Wright ?)  was 2 & ½ yrs old then.

Miss Carey Addressing Machine & Eqpt. Co. ; 77 Bedford St. Boston
See old piece of writing paper in blue box at moms house ?

Father was; E. Stanley Wright
Mother was: Alice M. Wright ( 90 in 1984)
Son was : David M. Wright, was student at Shrewsbury HS.

Company merged with Barry Controls Inc. in 19 ??



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Future Posts related to BOLT & Company and Bolt-Wright Company::
Guide Cars samples, price sheets, company orders, contract documents for sale of company to Mr. Wright.



Printing block stamp used for adds & guide cards sold by Joseph Bolt & Dorothy Bolt in 1930s



 


Sample of one of the Bolt & Wright Co. envelopes used in 1930s


Agreement where Joseph C. Bolt sells Company to E. Stanley Wright---signed by both parties


Early Wright Line Catalogue-3rd pages shows the guide cards designed by Joseph Bolt



News article in 1984 about the starting of Wright Line Company



Picture of E. Stanley Wright from an early Wirght Co. Catalogue.


1984 News Clipping on Wright Line


News Clipping on Wright Line's 50th year


News Clipping about Wright Line & son David Wright



Letter from Barry Wright Corp. about founding of Company.