Baseboard Register
Catalog Number
2001.111.5Title
Translation: edneDescription
a) Metal double-deflection, baseboard register; enameled light taupe color with flexible fin face and black turning blade valve; holes at each side for attachment to wall; torn, green cardboard instruction tag, printed in black, show picture of mechanism and instruction for adjustment of deflector; bolts enclosed in small paper envelope; appears new other than minor paint scrape on metal; 1950.b)7 3/8"x 11 3/8" x2 1/2" cardboard box for register; box sides printed in red on white with sailboat, rope frame and "H & C" logo, alongside "Registers & Grills, Products of Merit by Expert Craftsmen, Hart & Cooley Mfg. Co., Holland, Mich., U,S.A."; one end with additional information - No. 754, slogans, dimensions, patent nos.; box yellowed and ends torn.History
August Landwehr, a Holland, MI businessman and resident, arranged in 1924 for Hart & Cooley to move to Holland, MI. The thought behind this was for Hart & Cooley to supply the warm air registers for Landwehr's Holland Furnace Co. furnaces.Hart & Cooley was located at 50 East 8th Street in Holland, MI, along the south side of the street, near Walnut Ave.
During World War 2 Hart & Cooley shifted production from registers to 60mm mortar-shell casings. In the 1950s Hart & Cooley designed a line of grills and registers for the newer furnaces being produced,
In 1986 Hart & Cooley became part of Chicago-based Eagle Industries. In 1990 Hart and Colley workers went on strike, which led to a decline in sales and, eventually, a departure of Hart and Cooley from Holland, MI.