BOLT -WRIGHT Company
Last Up-dated 3-19-2007
J.C.Bolt Co. and Bolt & Company --1931-1934
Became : Bolt-Wright Co.--193?- 1934
Became: Wright & Company--1934-?
Became: Wright Co.
Became: Wright Line
Became: Barry Wright Co.
Let no one think this web site is to take any steam out of the hard work the Wright family did to build that company up after my dad sold it!!! This site is to only document the early years of a flegling company my dad started. RBB
Printing block stamp used for adds & guide cards sold by Joseph Bolt & wife Dorothy Bolt in 1930s |
Agreement where Joseph C. Bolt sells Company to E. Stanley Wright---signed by both parties |
Photo from 1935 in Detroit |
Sample of one of the Bolt & Wright Co. envelopes used in 1930s |
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 Note, there was an earlier one in the Sunday brown section of Worcester Paper that claimed Mr. founded company! |
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Model 2600 Punch |
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Wright EX Box |
Wright Punch Out Box |
Close up of punch |
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 company as "BOLT & Co." in 1931. Joseph held several patents at time.
* JC Bolt on 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.
* Company 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. This
was also known as the Buxton Family homestead.
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 based on JC selling ability. 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 ( after depression) 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 from JC Bolt
in (1934).
Dorothy remembered it as 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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Expected future Posts related to BOLT & Company and Bolt-Wright Company::
Guide Cards samples, price sheets, company orders, contract documents for sale of company to Mr. Wright.
Obit of EDITH WRIGHT-CHOINIERE ( Wife of Mr. Stanley Wright)
Published on October 26, 2000, Article 5 of 49 found.
GULFPORT, Fla. -- Edith A. (Sundvall) Wright-Choiniere, 75, of
Gulfport, formerly of Charlton, Mass., died Friday, Oct. 6, in Woodside
Hospice House in Pinnellas Park after a long illness.
Her first husband, Stanley ``Lefty'' Wright, died in 1959. She
leaves her husband of 34 years, Joseph J. Choiniere; two sons, Bruce Wright
of Dudley, Mass., and Barry Wright of Oxford, Mass.; two daughters, Beverly
Tebo-Vigue and Charlotte Holmes, both of Charlton; two stepdaughters, Lorraine
(Worcester Telegram & Gazette (MA), 235 words.)
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